BA International Relations and Modern History
About this course
BA (Hons) in Politics and International Relations and History, combining political analysis with historical study. Core topics include Data Analysis and Research Methods. The programme offers a semester abroad module in the final year, and draws on specialists from both politics and history.
Modules
- POWER, (DIS)ORDER & SECURITY: UNDERSTANDING GLOBAL POLITICS 1
- UNDERSTANDING POLITICS TODAY: APPROACHES, ISSUES AND CASE STUDIES
- THE AGE OF EXTREMES: WORLD HISTORY SINCE 1914
- GLOBALISATION, GOVERNANCE AND JUSTICE: UNDERSTANDING GLOBAL POLITICS 2
- WORLDBUILDING: INTERNATIONAL SYSTEMS THROUGHOUT HISTORY
- INTRODUCTION TO SOCIOLOGICAL THOUGHT: THE INDIVIDUAL IN SOCIETY
- CLASSIC READINGS IN PHILOSOPHY
- INTRODUCTION TO AMERICAN HISTORY AND POLITICS
- RIGHTS & WRONGS: AN INTRODUCTION TO SOCIAL AND POLITICAL THEORY
- INTRODUCTION TO MODERN HISTORY
- ANALYSING INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS: FROM REALISM TO POSTCOLONIALISM
- INTRODUCTION TO DATA ANALYSIS FOR POLITICS AND INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS
- LATIN AMERICA AND THE WORLD
- GENDER AND POWER
- COOPERATION AND CRISIS: AN INTRODUCTION TO THE EUROPEAN UNION
- DIGITAL MEDIA AND SOCIETY
- WESTERN POLITICAL THOUGHT
- POLITICAL VIOLENCE & CONFLICT: THEORETICAL PERSPECTIVES
- PIR SEMESTER ABROAD MODULE
- ALGORITHMS & BLOCKBUSTERS: THE MAKING OF MEDIA AND CULTURAL POLICY
- POWER, WEALTH AND NATIONS: GLOBAL POLITICAL ECONOMY
- STATES, INSTITUTIONS AND CITIZENS
- INTERNATIONAL SECURITY
- THE POWER PARADOX: AUTHORITY, FREEDOM, AND CONFLICT IN MODERN SOCIETY
- ENVIRONMENTAL THINKING FOR SECOND YEARS
- SLAVERY IN THE USA, 1619-1865
- POLITICS IN THE USA
- U.S. EMPIRE
- BETWEEN EAST AND WEST: INTERNATIONAL HISTORY SINCE 1890
- LGBT AND BEYOND: SEXUAL CULTURES, QUEER IDENTITIES, AND THE POLITICS OF DESIRE
- PUBLIC INTERNATIONAL LAW
- AMERICA IN THE WORLD: THE HISTORY OF U.S. FOREIGN RELATIONS
- ARTS AND HUMANITIES PLACEMENT MODULE
- POLITICS, DEVELOPMENT AND SOCIETY
- THE CIVIL RIGHTS MOVEMENT
- INTERMEDIATE FRENCH I - A2+ CEFR
- INTERMEDIATE GERMAN I - A2 CEFR
- BEGINNERS' ITALIAN I - A1 CEFR
- ADVANCED ENGLISH I
- INTERMEDIATE SPANISH I - A2+ CEFR
- BEGINNERS' FRENCH I - A1 CEFR (SPRING START)
- BEGINNERS' ARABIC II
- BEGINNERS' FRENCH II - A2 CEFR
- BEGINNERS' ITALIAN II - A2 CEFR
- BEGINNERS' SPANISH II - A2 CEFR
- BEGINNERS' GERMAN I (SPRING START) - A1 CEFR
- ADVANCED ENGLISH II - B2 CEFR
- BEGINNERS' JAPANESE II
- BEGINNERS' ARABIC I (SPRING START)
- BEGINNERS' RUSSIAN II - A2 CEFR
- INTRODUCTION TO BRITISH SIGN LANGUAGE II
- INTERMEDIATE GERMAN II - B1 CEFR
- BEGINNERS' JAPANESE I (SPRING START)
- INTERMEDIATE FRENCH II - B1 CEFR
- INTRODUCTION TO BRITISH SIGN LANGUAGE I (SPRING START)
- BEGINNERS' SPANISH I - A1 CEFR (SPRING START)
- INTERMEDIATE SPANISH II B1 CEFR
- BEGINNERS' GERMAN II - A1.2 CEFR
- DISSERTATION OR RESEARCH PROJECT IN POLITICS AND INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS
- DIGITAL POLITICS
- DISTRIBUTIVE JUSTICE
- POLITICS AND POPULAR CULTURE
- BETTER WORLDS? UTOPIAS AND DYSTOPIAS
- DATA, POLITICS AND SOCIETY
- PARLIAMENTARY STUDIES
- POLITICS AND FOREIGN POLICY OF THE INDO-PACIFIC
- MULTICULTURALISM
- GREENING THE WORLD: THE POLITICS OF ENERGY AND CLIMATE CHANGE
- WEAPONS OF WAR
- RHETORIC: DEMOCRACY AND THE POLITICS OF PERSUASION
- ACTIVIST CAMPAIGNING
- CAPITALISM AND ITS CRITICS
- BLACK INTERNATIONALISM
- WE'RE HERE, WE'RE QUEER: GLOBAL SEXUALITIES AND CONTEMPORARY QUEER CULTURES
- THE FIRST WORLD WAR: A NEW HISTORY
- TWENTIETH-CENTURY SPORT HISTORY
- GRAND STRATEGY
- RUSSIA IN REVOLUTION 1905-1921
- US INTERVENTIONISM, THE CIA AND COVERT ACTION
- CONTESTING THE PAST: REPRESENTATION AND MEMORY
- THE CULT OF VIOLENCE: THE FASCIST REGIMES OF ITALY, GERMANY AND JAPAN, 1922-1945
- APPEASEMENT AND THE SECOND WORLD WAR
- COMMUNISM AND NATIONALISM IN YUGOSLAVIA
- A NEW ORDER? THE 1980s BEYOND THATCHER