BA International Relations and Politics with a Year Abroad
About this course
BA (Hons) in Politics and International Relations. Core topics include Data Analysis and Research Methods. The course runs over four years, with the third year spent studying abroad at a partner university. Teaching incorporates simulations, case studies, and applied learning to connect political theory with real-world institutions.
Modules
- ARTS AND HUMANITIES YEAR ABROAD MODULE
- RIGHTS & WRONGS: AN INTRODUCTION TO SOCIAL AND POLITICAL THEORY
- UNDERSTANDING POLITICS TODAY: APPROACHES, ISSUES AND CASE STUDIES
- POWER, (DIS)ORDER & SECURITY: UNDERSTANDING GLOBAL POLITICS 1
- GLOBALISATION, GOVERNANCE AND JUSTICE: UNDERSTANDING GLOBAL POLITICS 2
- WORLDBUILDING: INTERNATIONAL SYSTEMS THROUGHOUT HISTORY
- MODERN READINGS IN PHILOSOPHY
- THE POLITICS OF GLOBAL DEVELOPMENT
- PHILOSOPHY OF SOCIAL TRANSFORMATION
- INTRODUCTION TO POLITICAL COMMUNICATION
- ANALYSING INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS: FROM REALISM TO POSTCOLONIALISM
- INTRODUCTION TO DATA ANALYSIS FOR POLITICS AND INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS
- STATES, INSTITUTIONS AND CITIZENS
- LATIN AMERICA AND THE WORLD
- GENDER AND POWER
- COOPERATION AND CRISIS: AN INTRODUCTION TO THE EUROPEAN UNION
- DIGITAL MEDIA AND SOCIETY
- WESTERN POLITICAL THOUGHT
- MEDIA, GLOBALISATION AND CULTURE
- POLITICAL VIOLENCE & CONFLICT: THEORETICAL PERSPECTIVES
- ALGORITHMS & BLOCKBUSTERS: THE MAKING OF MEDIA AND CULTURAL POLICY
- POWER, WEALTH AND NATIONS: GLOBAL POLITICAL ECONOMY
- POST-APARTHEID: SOUTH AFRICAN POLITICS TODAY
- INTERNATIONAL SECURITY
- THE POWER PARADOX: AUTHORITY, FREEDOM, AND CONFLICT IN MODERN SOCIETY
- ENVIRONMENTAL THINKING FOR SECOND YEARS
- THE MEDIA AND IDENTITY
- SLAVERY IN THE USA, 1619-1865
- POLITICS IN THE USA
- U.S. EMPIRE
- LGBT AND BEYOND: SEXUAL CULTURES, QUEER IDENTITIES, AND THE POLITICS OF DESIRE
- SOUTH ASIAN DEVELOPMENT
- PUBLIC INTERNATIONAL LAW
- AMERICA IN THE WORLD: THE HISTORY OF U.S. FOREIGN RELATIONS
- #NON! FRENCH SOCIAL UNREST THROUGH MEDIA
- ARTS AND HUMANITIES PLACEMENT MODULE
- INTERMEDIATE FRENCH I - A2+ CEFR
- INTERMEDIATE GERMAN I - A2 CEFR
- BEGINNERS' JAPANESE I
- BEGINNERS' ARABIC I
- INTRODUCTION TO BRITISH SIGN LANGUAGE I
- BEGINNERS' CHINESE I
- BEGINNERS' FRENCH I - A1 CEFR
- BEGINNERS' RUSSIAN I - A1 CEFR
- BEGINNERS' GERMAN I - A1.1 CEFR
- BEGINNERS' SPANISH I - A1 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 RUSSIAN I (SPRING START)
- 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
- BEGINNERS' CHINESE II
- 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
- POLITICAL JOURNALISM
- ACTIVIST CAMPAIGNING
- CAPITALISM AND ITS CRITICS
- BLACK INTERNATIONALISM
- WE'RE HERE, WE'RE QUEER: GLOBAL SEXUALITIES AND CONTEMPORARY QUEER CULTURES
- GRAND STRATEGY
- CRIME AND PUNISHMENT: A HISTORY OF AMERICAN CRIMINAL JUSTICE
- US INTERVENTIONISM, THE CIA AND COVERT ACTION
- EMBODIMENT AND REPRESENTATION IN THE ARTS OF AFRICA, OCEANIA & THE AMERICAS