Politics and International Relations BA (Hons)

Course Structure

Year 1

In your first year, if you are a full-time student, you will study:

•     Three compulsory modules in semester 1
•      Three compulsory modules in semester 2

Modules

• Introducing Politics: Key Concepts and Skills
• Comparative Politics
• Understanding World Politics
• UK Politics: Tradition and Change
• International Security
• Aid, Inequality, and Development

Year 2

•    One compulsory module and two optional modules in semester 1
•     Two compulsory modules and one optional module in semester 2

Modules

• International Relations: Theory and Practice
• Democracies
• International Political Economy
• Area Studies
• Political Analysis: Theory and Method
• Practical Politics
• Political Parties and Politicians in the UK
• Contemporary Security Challenges

Year 3

•       A dissertation module studied across semesters 1 and 2
•      Two optional modules in semester 1
•      Two optional modules in semester 2

Modules

• Dissertation
• Hived Out, Hived In Delegation in the Modern British State
• Authoritarianism
• Global Governance
• Global Justice
• The Middle East
• The Political Economy of Crises
• The Politics of Global Health
• Intervention, Peacekeeping, and The Responsibility to Protect
• Gender, Security, and Conflict
• Technology and Visual International Politics
• International Ethics and Global Citizenship