BA English and Politics
Entry requirements
A level: ABB including A-level English Note: for applicants who have not studied A-level English then AS-level English (grade A) would be acceptable in lieu of A-level English. IB: 33 points overall, including 6(English),5,5 at Higher Level.
About this course
BA in Politics and International Relations and English, combining politics and international relations with English. Core topics include Data Analysis, Statistics, Research Methods, Fieldwork, Policy Analysis, Historical Research, and Critical & Analytical Thinking.
Modules
- English in Transition
- Issues in Contemporary Fiction: Gender, Race, Ecology
- Introduction to English Language
- Perspectives on Politics
- Contemporary Europe
- Comparative Politics
- What is to be done? Sustainability, climate change and just energy transitions in the Anthropocene
- Studying Politics
- Mapping the Anglo-Saxon World
- Foundations for Speech Analysis: The Phonetics of English
- Language and Power
- History of English: Studying Language Change
- Politics and Policy of the European Union
- Modern Political Thought
- The Politics of Deeply Divided Societies
- Shakespeare and Co
- Irish Literature
- Irish Politics
- International Relations
- American Politics
- Security and Terrorism
- International Organisations
- British Politics in crisis?
- Havoc and Rebellion: Writing and Reading Later Medieval England
- Modern American Fiction: Race, Class, Gender, Sexuality
- Inventing America
- Modernism and Modernity
- Fiction and the Novel (1660-1820)
- Utopia / Dystopia: The Future in Nineteenth- and Twentieth-Century Literature
- Romantic Poetry, 1789-1832
- Enlightenment and its Discontents
- Dickens and the Cult of Celebrity
- Northern Ireland: Past, Present and Future
- Peace and Conflict Studies
- Identity Politics in Diverse Societies
- America's Aftermaths
- The Politics of the Planetary Crisis: power, people and place
- Political Economy of the Global South
- Writing Contemporary Ireland: Elegy, Epistle, Ekphrasis
- The Bible and Modern Fiction
- Poetry from Britain and Irelan
- Women's Writing 1680-1830
- Shakespeare on Screen
- Speech Worlds: Phonological Acquisition, Variation and Disorder
- Contemporary Political Philosophy
- Long Placement
- Contemporary Critical Theory
- Gender and Politics
- Comparative Politics of the Middle East
- Dissertation (Politics)
- Televising the Victorians
- Earth, Energy, Ethics and Economy: The Politics of Unsustainability
- Language in the Media
- European Cultural Identities
- Double Dissertation English Literature
- Double Dissertation English Language
- War and Visual Culture and Surveillance
- Politics of the Global Economy
- Marvels, Monsters and Miracles in Anglo-Saxon England
- Contemporary Indian Literature in English
- Special Topic in Creative Writing
- Special Topic in Irish Writing
- Renaissance Performance, Gender, Space
- The Politics of the Far Right in Europe and the Americas
- Political Parties and Elections in Northern Ireland
- National and Ethnic Minorities in European Politics
- Contemporary Irish and Scottish Fiction Devolutionary Identities
- Challenges to contemporary party politics
- Politics, Public Administration and Policy-Making
- The Structure of English
- US Foreign Policy
- Asylum and Migration in Global Politics
- Representing the Working Class
- Security and Technology
- Writing New York, 1880-1940
- Contemporary Poetry
- Irish Gothic
- Global Pol. Econ. of Energy
- Short Placement
- Writing Africa: The Colonial Past to Colonial Present
- Work-based Learning
- Restoration to Regency in Contemporary Fiction
- Love Across the Divide: Northern Irish Literature and Culture 1968-Present
- Radical Hope:Inspiring Present-day Sustainability Transformations through an Examination of Our Past
- The Politics of European Union Enlargement… and Withdrawal
- The Politics of Global Health: Promise and Perils
- Political and Economic Development in Latin America
- Understanding Africa: Governance, Ethnicity and State Structures
- NATO: History & Current Developments
- Shakespeare's History Plays: Then and Now