BA History and Politics with a Placement Year
Entry requirements
A level: BBB
About this course
BA (Hons) in Politics and International Relations and History. Core topics include Data Analysis, Research Methods, and Fieldwork. The first year provides grounding in both subjects, with flexibility to split time between history and politics in later years. A placement year is available, typically 9-12 months in a relevant role.
Modules
- HUM PLACEMENT YEAR
- INTRODUCTION TO MODERN HISTORY
- POWER, (DIS)ORDER & SECURITY: UNDERSTANDING GLOBAL POLITICS 1
- RIGHTS & WRONGS: AN INTRODUCTION TO SOCIAL AND POLITICAL THEORY
- DOING HISTORY
- GLOBALISATION, GOVERNANCE AND JUSTICE: UNDERSTANDING GLOBAL POLITICS 2
- THE AGE OF EXTREMES: WORLD HISTORY SINCE 1914
- WITCHCRAFT, MAGIC AND BELIEF IN EARLY MODERN EUROPE
- THE CATASTROPHIC FOURTEENTH CENTURY
- HISTORY'S STORIES
- THE RISE AND FALL OF BRITISH POWER
- THE ROMAN EMPIRE: CITIZENS, SLAVES, AND IMPERIAL FAMILIES
- BETWEEN EAST AND WEST: INTERNATIONAL HISTORY SINCE 1890
- THE FIRST BRITISH EMPIRE
- HERITAGE AND PUBLIC HISTORY
- LOVE, DESIRE AND SEXUALITY IN HISTORY
- FRANCE FROM THE ENLIGHTENMENT TO THE BELLE ÉPOQUE
- LGBT AND BEYOND: SEXUAL CULTURES, QUEER IDENTITIES, AND THE POLITICS OF DESIRE
- MODERN GERMANY, 1914-1990
- BRITISH INDIA: EMPIRE, NATION AND THE PEOPLE IN SOUTH ASIA
- HISTORY OF MODERN ITALY
- COOPERATION AND CRISIS: AN INTRODUCTION TO THE EUROPEAN UNION
- ANGLO-SAXON ENGLAND, C. 400-1066
- GENDER AND POWER
- U.S. EMPIRE
- ANALYSING INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS: FROM REALISM TO POSTCOLONIALISM
- POLITICS IN THE USA
- HUNDRED YEARS' WAR
- FROM STALIN TO PUTIN: THE LONG SHADOW OF THE WAR
- SLAVERY IN THE USA, 1619-1865
- WESTERN POLITICAL THOUGHT
- THE ORIGINS OF THE ENGLISH LANDSCAPE 4000BC TO 1066AD
- TUDOR ENGLAND
- INTRODUCTION TO DATA ANALYSIS FOR POLITICS AND INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS
- THE COLD WAR: A NEW HISTORY
- DISEASES, EPIDEMICS AND HISTORY
- THE SILK ROADS: THE ARCHAEOLOGY, HISTORY AND ART HISTORY OF EURASIAN TRADE NETWORKS IN THE EARLY MEDIEVAL PERIOD
- THE CIVIL RIGHTS MOVEMENT
- POWER, WEALTH AND NATIONS: GLOBAL POLITICAL ECONOMY
- ANATOMY OF A CITY: PARIS, 1682-1815
- THE ENGLISH LANDSCAPE 1066 TO 1600
- PIRATES, SEAFARERS, SHIPWRECK C. 1500-1750: THE PERILS OF THE SEA
- PROPAGANDA
- STUART ENGLAND
- VICTORIAN BRITAIN
- GLOBAL SUPERPOWER: U.S. FOREIGN POLICY SINCE 1898
- NAPOLEON TO STALIN (AND BEYOND): THE STRUGGLE FOR MASTERY IN EUROPE
- TWENTIETH-CENTURY BRITAIN, 1914 TO THE PRESENT
- JAPAN IN MODERN TIMES
- STATES, INSTITUTIONS AND CITIZENS
- NORMAN AND PLANTAGENET ENGLAND
- INTERNATIONAL SECURITY
- POLITICAL VIOLENCE & CONFLICT: THEORETICAL PERSPECTIVES
- THE MEDIA AND IDENTITY
- BEGINNERS' JAPANESE I
- BEGINNERS' FRENCH I - A1 CEFR
- INTERMEDIATE FRENCH I - A2+ CEFR
- BEGINNERS' ARABIC I
- BEGINNERS' SPANISH I - A1 CEFR
- ADVANCED ENGLISH I
- INTRODUCTION TO BRITISH SIGN LANGUAGE I
- INTERMEDIATE GERMAN I - A2 CEFR
- INTERMEDIATE SPANISH I - A2+ CEFR
- BEGINNERS' GERMAN I - A1.1 CEFR
- BEGINNERS' FRENCH I - A1 CEFR (SPRING START)
- BEGINNERS' GERMAN I (SPRING START) - A1 CEFR
- ADVANCED ENGLISH II
- BEGINNERS' SPANISH I - A1 CEFR (SPRING START)
- BEGINNERS' ARABIC II
- INTERMEDIATE SPANISH II B1 CEFR
- BEGINNERS' JAPANESE I (SPRING START)
- BEGINNERS' RUSSIAN II - A2 CEFR
- BEGINNERS' SPANISH II - A2 CEFR
- BEGINNERS RUSSIAN I (SPRING START)
- INTRODUCTION TO BRITISH SIGN LANGUAGE I (SPRING START)
- BEGINNERS' ARABIC I (SPRING START)
- BEGINNERS' GERMAN II - A1.2 CEFR
- INTRODUCTION TO BRITISH SIGN LANGUAGE II
- BEGINNERS' JAPANESE II
- BEGINNERS' FRENCH II - A2 CEFR
- INTERMEDIATE FRENCH II - B1 CEFR
- THE REIGN OF LOUIS THE FAT: WAR, MURDER, & THE WRITING OF HISTORY IN EARLY TWELFTH-CENTURY FRANCE
- BLOOD AND BRUTALITY: VIOLENCE, THE INDIVIDUAL AND SOCIETY IN THE EARLY MODERN WORLD
- THE CULT OF VIOLENCE: THE FASCIST REGIMES OF ITALY, GERMANY AND JAPAN, 1922-1945
- APPEASEMENT AND THE SECOND WORLD WAR
- A NEW ORDER? THE 1980s BEYOND THATCHER
- THE MAKING OF THE ENGLISH LANDSCAPE 1450 TO 1950
- COMMUNISM AND NATIONALISM IN YUGOSLAVIA
- FIELDWORK IN LANDSCAPE HISTORY
- BETTER WORLDS? UTOPIAS AND DYSTOPIAS
- DISSERTATION IN HISTORY
- TEACHING HISTORY
- THE MEDIEVAL CASTLE: ROMANCE AND REALITY
- IRELAND: A LONG HISTORY OF THE TROUBLES
- THE ENLIGHTENMENT
- THE FIRST WORLD WAR: A NEW HISTORY
- TWENTIETH-CENTURY SPORT HISTORY
- WEAPONS OF WAR
- DANCING ON THE VOLCANO: ART AND CULTURE IN THE WEIMAR REPUBLIC
- CONTESTING THE PAST: REPRESENTATION AND MEMORY
- IN THE MINDS OF SAMURAI, RULERS, REBELS, AND POETS: JAPAN, 1830-1960
- THE ITALIAN RENAISSANCE
- DISSERTATION OR RESEARCH PROJECT IN POLITICS AND INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS
- THE FRENCH REVOLUTION, 1789-1804
- DEATH IN THE MIDDLE AGES