BA Politics
Entry requirements
A level: AAB IB: 35 points overall BTEC: DDD We consider a range of BTEC qualifications equivalent to 3 A Levels, or in combination with A Levels or other qualifications. For example: Distinction, Distinction in BTEC Level 3 National Diploma plus A at A Level Distinction in BTEC Level 3 National Extended Certificate plus AA at A level Distinction, Distinction in 2 BTEC Level 3 National Extended Certificates plus A at A level
About this course
BA (Hons) Politics is an undergraduate degree within the politics and international relations subject area. Core topics include Research Methods. Students complete a dissertation in their final year, and have the option to add a placement year or year abroad to their studies. The first year introduces foundational themes through compulsory modules such as Political Analysis, Introduction to Comparative Politics, Introduction to Political Theory: States, Liberty and Revolution, and Introduction to Global Politics. The second year focuses on advanced theoretical concepts and methodological approaches via modules including Theories of the State and Research Design. Optional modules in the second and third years allow students to explore diverse themes such as European Union Politics, British Politics, International Crisis Diplomacy, and The Politics of Gender. In the final year, students undertake the Politics Dissertation as a compulsory independent research project. Optional modules span numerous specialised areas, ranging from political psychology and green politics to the politics of the Middle East.
Modules
- Political Analysis
- Introduction to Comparative Politics
- Introduction to Political Theory: States, Liberty and Revolution
- Introduction to Global Politics
- Global Challenges: From Theory to Practice
- York Policy Lab
- Theories of the State
- Research Design
- Can Democracy Work?
- Capitalism: Beyond States and Markets
- Justice, Equality, and Difference
- European Union Politics
- Democracy, Autocracy and the State
- Human Rights and Wrongs
- The Rising Powers
- Critical Global Security Studies
- Things Fall Apart: Political Thought in Times of Crisis
- The Politics of Gender
- Empire, War and Law
- Politics of Development
- British Politics
- The US and Global Politics after the Cold War
- War and Peace
- Global Political Economy
- Politics Dissertation
- Africa and International Politics
- Constitutional and Territorial Ideologies in Britain and Ireland
- India and its Neighbourhood
- Democracy and Emergency
- Development Paradigms
- Morality and Modern Warfare
- Gender, Violence and Resistance
- Global Governance: Purpose, Power and Performance
- Governmentality: Michel Foucault and the Analytics of Power
- Green Politics
- International Crisis Diplomacy
- Political Psychology and Public Opinion
- Politics of Peace after Civil War
- The Global Food System
- "We, the People": Ideas of Democratic Representation
- Britain in a Changing Global Economic Order
- Ethnicity and Conflict
- From War to Peace? Statebuilding and Political Transition in Southeast Asia
- Global Politics of Nuclear Weapons
- Global Sustainability and Energy Policy
- Karl Marx
- Politics of Technology: From the Luddites to the Unabomber
- Politics of the Middle East: Regimes and societies in transition
- Regionalism in World Politics
- Terrorism and Counter-terrorism
- The European Far Right
- The Labour Party and Socialism
- The Politics of (Post-)Colonialism
- Applied Quantitative Analysis
- Dissertation (Applied Quantitative Analysis)