BA Politics with a Placement Year
About this course
BA (Hons) in Politics and International Relations, combining the study of political systems with international relations. Core topics include data analysis, research methods, and social and cultural analysis. The degree offers an optional year-long work placement and a semester abroad through a dedicated module.
Modules
- HUM PLACEMENT YEAR
- 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
- INTRODUCTION TO POLITICAL COMMUNICATION
- GLOBALISATION, GOVERNANCE AND JUSTICE: UNDERSTANDING GLOBAL POLITICS 2
- THEORISING MEDIA AND DIGITAL CULTURE
- EARLY MODERN PHILOSOPHY
- APPLIED SOCIAL THEORY
- THE POLITICS OF GLOBAL DEVELOPMENT
- WORLDBUILDING: INTERNATIONAL SYSTEMS THROUGHOUT HISTORY
- INTRODUCTION TO DATA ANALYSIS FOR POLITICS AND INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS
- STATES, INSTITUTIONS AND CITIZENS
- COOPERATION AND CRISIS: AN INTRODUCTION TO THE EUROPEAN UNION
- GENDER AND POWER
- ANALYSING INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS: FROM REALISM TO POSTCOLONIALISM
- WESTERN POLITICAL THOUGHT
- DIGITAL MEDIA AND SOCIETY
- POWER, WEALTH AND NATIONS: GLOBAL POLITICAL ECONOMY
- PIR SEMESTER ABROAD MODULE
- THE POWER PARADOX: AUTHORITY, FREEDOM, AND CONFLICT IN MODERN SOCIETY
- ENVIRONMENTAL THINKING FOR SECOND YEARS
- INTERNATIONAL SECURITY
- POLITICAL VIOLENCE & CONFLICT: THEORETICAL PERSPECTIVES
- THE MEDIA AND IDENTITY
- THE POLITICS OF STORYTELLING
- U.S. EMPIRE
- POLITICS IN THE USA
- ARTS AND HUMANITIES PLACEMENT MODULE
- ENVIRONMENTAL POLITICS AND POLICY MAKING
- SOCIAL POLICY AND SOCIAL JUSTICE
- 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
- DISSERTATION OR RESEARCH PROJECT IN POLITICS AND INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS
- POLITICS AND POPULAR CULTURE
- BETTER WORLDS? UTOPIAS AND DYSTOPIAS
- DATA, POLITICS AND SOCIETY
- DIGITAL POLITICS
- PARLIAMENTARY STUDIES
- POLITICS AND FOREIGN POLICY OF THE INDO-PACIFIC
- WEAPONS OF WAR
- SOCIAL ACTION IN PRACTICE
- CAPITALISM AND ITS CRITICS
- POLITICAL JOURNALISM
- WE'RE HERE, WE'RE QUEER: GLOBAL SEXUALITIES AND CONTEMPORARY QUEER CULTURES
- US INTERVENTIONISM, THE CIA AND COVERT ACTION
- THE POLITICS AND HISTORY OF AMERICAN CRIMINAL JUSTICE