BA Philosophy 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 Philosophy, combining two complementary disciplines. Core topics include Statistics, Mathematical Modelling, Research Methods, Policy Analysis, Critical & Analytical Thinking, and Artificial Intelligence & Machine Learning. The curriculum provides intellectual training focused on the foundations of the modern world, democracy, and political stability.
Modules
- Perspectives on Politics
- Introduction to Politics
- Philosophy and Human Nature
- Comparative Politics
- Contemporary Europe
- Philosophy and The Good Life
- Introductory Logic
- What is to be done? Sustainability, climate change and just energy transitions in the Anthropocene
- Studying Politics
- Knowledge and Reality
- Politics and Policy of the European Union
- Modern Political Thought
- The Politics of Deeply Divided Societies
- Irish Politics
- International Relations
- American Politics
- Moral Theories
- History of Philosophy
- Democracy, Ethics & Economics
- Security and Terrorism
- International Organisations
- British Politics in crisis?
- Introduction to the Philosophy of Science
- Northern Ireland: Past, Present and Future
- Peace and Conflict Studies
- Identity Politics in Diverse Societies
- Philosophy of Race
- The Politics of the Planetary Crisis: power, people and place
- Political Economy of the Global South
- Contemporary Political Philoso
- Philosophy of Religion
- Long Placement
- Contemporary Critical Theory
- Gender and Politics
- Comparative Politics of the Middle East
- Dissertation (Politics)
- Earth, Energy, Ethics and Economy: The Politics of Unsustainability
- European Cultural Identities
- Dissertation
- War and Visual Culture and Surveillance
- Applied Ethics
- Politics of the Global Economy
- 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
- Security and Technology
- Philosophy for Children
- Short Placement
- Radical Hope:Inspiring Present-day Sustainability Transformations through an Examination of Our Past
- Philosophy of Technology and Environment
- Aesthetics and the Philosophy of Art
- 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