BA History and Politics
Entry requirements
A level: ABB IB: 33 points overall, including 6,5,5 at Higher Level
About this course
BA in Politics and International Relations and History. Core topics include Historical Research, Critical & Analytical Thinking, Global & Comparative Perspective, Research Methods, Policy Analysis, and Statistics. This undergraduate degree spans three years of full-time study, offering training that combines the insights of political theory with the tools of historical inquiry to examine contemporary and past developments.
Modules
- Exploring History 1
- Perspectives on Politics
- Exploring History 2
- Contemporary Europe
- Comparative Politics
- World Politics
- A World on the Move:Historical and Anthropological Approaches to Globalization
- History and Historians: Contested Pasts
- Revolutions
- The Long Road to Black Lives Matter
- What is to be done? Sustainability, climate change and just energy transitions in the Anthropocene
- Introduction to Politics
- Modern Political Thought
- Studying Politics
- Politics and Society in 19th Century Ireland
- The American South 1619-1865
- Ireland since partition
- The American South, 1865-1980
- Politics and Policy of the European Union
- The Politics of Deeply Divided Societies
- Irish Politics
- International Relations
- The Roman Origins of the East and West; From Augustus to Charlemagne
- The Expansion of Medieval Europe, 1000-1300
- American Politics
- The making of contemporary Britain: 1914 to the present
- Democracy, Ethics & Economics
- Revolutionary Europe, 1500-1789
- Security and Terrorism
- International Organisations
- Nationalism and Liberation in 20th Century Africa
- Alexander The Great and the Creation of the Hellenistic World
- Apocalypse: Cultures, communities, and the end of the world
- British Politics in crisis?
- Cabinets of Curiosity: Museums Past and Present
- Northern Ireland: Past, Present and Future
- Peace and Conflict Studies
- Identity Politics in Diverse Societies
- The Politics of the Planetary Crisis: power, people and place
- Revolution and Disaster in Ireland and Britain 1603-1707
- An Age of Revolutions: Britain and Ireland, 1688-1815
- Political Economy of the Global South
- That Vast Catastrophe: The Great Irish Famine
- The Soviet Union 1921-1991
- Long Placement
- Contemporary Critical Theory
- Gender and Politics
- Comparative Politics of the Middle East
- Dissertation (Politics)
- The Irish Revolution, 1917-1921
- Earth, Energy, Ethics and Economy: The Politics of Unsustainability
- Working Class Communities in the UK 1900-1970
- European Cultural Identities
- Dissertation
- United Irishmen and Unionists: the religion and politics of Ulster protestants
- War and Visual Culture and Surveillance
- Kings, courts and culture in Carolingian Europe
- Politics of the Global Economy
- Religion and Empire: Christian Missions To Africa, Asia and Middle East
- 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
- Challenges to contemporary party politics
- Politics, Public Administration and Policy-Making
- US Foreign Policy
- Asylum and Migration in Global Politics
- Crime & Punishment 19th Century Ireland
- The Rise of Christianity 2: The Conversion of the Roman Empire
- Security and Technology
- Global Pol. Econ. of Energy
- Short Placement
- Thatcher's Britain
- Sin Cities? Everyday Life in the Modern Metropolis
- The Ancient City
- Pop Culture and Protest in U.S. History
- Twentieth-Century China
- Paths to Independence and Decolonisation in India and East Africa
- Radical Hope:Inspiring Present-day Sustainability Transformations through an Examination of Our Past
- Diaspora: Irish 19th-century migration
- Extermination: History and Memory of the Murdered Jews of Europe
- War, Politics, and Identity in Late Medieval Ireland, c.1166-c.1521
- African and Irish Relations in the Americas
- 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