BA Politics and Philosophy
Entry requirements
A Level: AAB IB: 34; 33, with B in the extended essay
About this course
BA in Politics and Philosophy BA, a politics and international relations and philosophy degree spanning political and philosophical theory, institutions, and global issues. Core topics include Research Methods, Communication & Writing, Critical & Analytical Thinking, Artificial Intelligence & Machine Learning. Students complete a substantial independent research project in the final year under academic supervision. The first year establishes core foundations through modules such as Political Analysis 1: An Introduction to Research and Scholarship, Western Political Thought, Writing Philosophy, and Ethics and Society. Second-year studies advance empirical and theoretical methodologies through modules including Political Analysis 2: How to do empirical research, Political Theory in Practice, Social Justice Today, and Political Philosophy. Optional modules across the degree allow students to explore specialist areas such as environmental justice, global political economy, bioethics, and the philosophy of AI and robotics. The final year centres on independent scholarship through compulsory modules like Research Project 1 and Communicating Philosophy, alongside optional study in subjects such as global culture wars, political psychology, and philosophy of law.
Modules
- Political Analysis 1: An Introduction to Research and Scholarship
- Western Political Thought
- Writing Philosophy
- Ethics and Society
- Planet Politics
- Comparative Politics
- Race and Racism in World Politics
- World Politics
- Global Political Economy
- British Politics
- Gender Politics
- Mind and World
- Bodies, Sex and Desires
- Science, Medicine and Society
- Religion, Reason and Reality
- Reason and Argument
- Death and Killing
- History of Philosophy
- Political Analysis 2: How to do empirical research
- Political Theory in Practice
- Social Justice Today
- Political Philosophy
- Migration and World Politics
- Europe in Crisis
- Chinese Politics
- Contemporary Security Challenges
- The Political Economy of Global Capitalism
- Oppression and Resistance
- The Making of The Modern Middle East
- Africa in the World
- Autocracies and Democracies
- Ethics: From Theory to Practice
- Religion and the Good Life
- Feminism
- Bioethics
- Philosophy of the Arts
- Formal Logic
- History of Political Philosophy
- Environmental Justice
- Ethnography of Faith, Spirituality and Wellbeing
- The Philosophy of AI and Robotics
- Metaphysics
- Philosophy of Mind
- Political Philosophy Today
- Philosophy of Education
- Reference and Truth
- Theories of Value : Aesthetics and Ethics
- Mind and Language
- Knowing and Being
- Global History of Philosophy
- Research Project 1
- Communicating Philosophy
- Global Culture Wars
- The Ethics of Political Leadership
- Understanding Elections
- Legitimate and Illegitimate Violence
- Political Psychology: The Personal Side of Politics
- War, Peace and Justice
- Sexual Violence in Armed Conflict
- Corporations in Global Politics: Possibilities, Tensions, and Ambiguities
- Ethics and Belief
- Global Justice
- Free Will and Religion
- Phenomenology
- Philosophy of Law
- Moral Theory and Moral Psychology