BA International Relations and Modern History with a Year Abroad
About this course
BA (Hons) in Politics and International Relations and History, a four-year programme combining political analysis with historical study. Core topics include Data Analysis and Research Methods. The course includes a study abroad semester in the third year, with modules spanning global politics, world history, and international systems.
Modules
- ARTS AND HUMANITIES YEAR ABROAD MODULE
- 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