BA Politics and Social Policy,
About this course
BA in Social Policy and Politics and International Relations. Core topics include Research Methods and Policy Analysis. The programme features a Global Summit Simulation module in which students engage in diplomatic role-play and negotiation exercises. The course spans three years of full-time study.
Modules
- Politics and the People
- Introducing Social Policy: Key Concepts and History
- Being a Social Scientist
- Disinformation, Ideology, and Bias: Researching and examining political data
- Freedom Justice and Equality: Key Debates in Political Philosophy
- Principles and Challenges for Social Policy
- The State and Political Institutions
- Devolution, Policy Making and Social Change
- Poverty and Social Justice
- The History of Political Thought
- Disunited Kingdom? Class, Race, Gender and Social Division in Twentieth-Century Britain
- Philosophy of the Enlightenment
- Anarchy and Order: Theories in International Relations
- America in Crisis: From the Tet Offensive to Trump
- Global Justice and Human Rights in the Age of Globalisation
- The Global First World War
- A Matter of Life and Death: Exploring Existential Philosophy
- Contemporary Moral Controversies
- International Security
- Global Summit Simulation
- Contemporary Wars and Conflicts
- British Politics and Public Policy
- The Global South in International Relations: Diplomacy, Development, and Resistance
- Health Policy
- Investigating Gender
- Researching Politics 1
- Principles of Social Policy
- The Family and Children: Ethics and Policy
- Who’s in, who’s out? Inclusion and Exclusion: Socio/Criminological Perspectives
- Social Movements, Social Policy and Social Change
- Race and Nation
- Dissertation
- Senedd Cymru/The Welsh Parliament