Course Content
Year 1
Core modules in this year include:
- Analysing Politics: Britain and Beyond – 20 credits
- Global Development – 20 credits
- Key Themes in International Relations – 20 credits
- Political Thought – 20 credits
- Politics and IR: Academic Enrichment Programme (AEP L4) – 0 credits
- Professional Practice: Skills for Academic and Professional Success – 40 credits
Year 2
Core modules in this year include:
- Analysing Foreign Policy – 20 credits
- International Thought – 20 credits
- Politics and IR: Academic Enrichment Programme (AEP L5) – 0 credits
Optional modules in this year include:
- A History of US Foreign Policy: From the Great War to 9/11 – 20 credits
- Bending the Truth a Little? Researching Politics and International Relations – 20 credits
- Campaigning in Action – 20 credits
- China and East Asian Economies – 20 credits
- Contemporary Populism: Friend or Foe of Democracy? – 20 credits
- Democracies Under Threat: Global Perspectives and Responses – 20 credits
- Development and Democracy in Latin America – 20 credits
- East Asian States and Societies – 20 credits
- Empire and its Afterlives in Britain, Europe, and Africa – 20 credits
- Introduction to Teaching – 20 credits
- Modern Foreign Language – 20 credits
- People and Place: Understanding the Spaces we Inhabit – 20 credits
- People on the Move: Legacy, Integration and Development – 20 credits
- Professional Experience L5 – 20 credits
- Russian & Eurasian Politics – 20 credits
- Soviet History and Politics – 20 credits
- Study Abroad (60) – 60 credits
- The Rules that Structure the World: The Politics and Governance of Regulation – 20 credits
- US Politics – 20 credits
Year 3
Core modules in this year include:
- Global Capitalism: Past, Present and Future – 20 credits
- Politics and IR: Academic Enrichment Programme (AEP L6) – 0 credits
- Security Challenges in the Twenty-First Century – 20 credits
Optional modules in this year include:
- Autocracy and Democracy – 20 credits
- Digital Media and Democracy – 20 credits
- Dissertation (International Relations) – 40 credits
- France in the World: Global Actor or Global Maverick? – 20 credits
- Germany in the American Century – 20 credits
- Global Health – 20 credits
- Independent Project (International Relations) – 20 credits
- Looking for Utopia, Finding Dystopia? Ideas and Ideologies in the New Millennium – 20 credits
- Major Project – 40 credits
- NGOs and Social Movements – 20 credits
- Professional Development: Recruiters and Candidates – 20 credits
- Professional Experience L6 – 20 credits
- Race, Rights and Development: Global Perspectives on Inequality and Social Justice – 20 credits
- Strategic Management and Leadership – 20 credits
- Transitional Justice and Human Rights – 20 credits
