Course Content
Year 1
Core modules in this year include:
- Key Themes in International Relations – 20 credits
- Political Thought – 20 credits
- Politics and International Relations: Academic Enrichment Programme – 0 credits
- Professional Practice: Skills for Academic and Professional Success – 40 credits
Either:
- Grade 1 and 2 General Language, plus Grade 1 and 2 Language in Use (beginners) – 20 credits each
- General Language Grade 3, plus Language Project (post A level) – 20 credits each
Year 2
Core modules in this year include:
- Key Themes in International Relations – 20 credits
- Political Thought – 20 credits
- Politics and International Relations: Academic Enrichment Programme – 0 credits
- Professional Practice: Skills for Academic and Professional Success – 40 credits
Either:
- Grade 1 and 2 General Language, plus Grade 1 and 2 Language in Use (beginners) – 20 credits each
- General Language Grade 3, plus Language Project (post A level) – 20 credits each
Optional abroad year
- Study abroad
Year 4
- Independent Project – 20 credits
- Language Grade 6 (French, German, Italian, Spanish or Mandarin) – 20 credits
- Politics and International Relations: Academic Enrichment Programme – 20 credits
- Research Project – 20 credits
Optional modules in this year include:
- Africa Revisited: Nation Building and 'state Fragility' in Post-colonial Africa – 20 credits
- Autocracy and Democracy – 20 credits
- China and East Asian Economies – 20 credits
- East Asian States and Societies – 20 credits
- France: The Making of a Republic – 20 credits
- France in the World: Global Actor or Global Maverick? – 20 credits
- Germany in the American Century – 20 credits
- Global Capitalism: Past, Present and Future – 20 credits
- Global Health – 20 credits
- Interpreting 1 – 20 credits
- Interpreting 2 – 20 credits
- Politics and Culture of the Hispanic World in 20th Century Literature And Film – 20 credits
- Professional Development: Recruiters and Candidates – 20 credits
- Professional Experience – 20 credits
- Race, Rights and Development: Global Perspectives on Inequality and Social Justice – 20 credits
- Rethinking Aid and Development – 20 credits
- Rethinking Nazi Germany: Politics, History, Society – 20 credits
- Revolution and Repression: Spain – 20 credits
- Security Challenges in the Twenty-first Century – 20 credits
- Transitional Justice and Human Rights – 20 credits
- Translation Theory and Practice – 20 credits
