Course Content
Year 1
Core modules
- Analysing Politics: Britain and Beyond – 20 credits
- Global Development – 20 credits
- Key Themes in International Relations – 20 credits
- Political Thought – 20 credits
Year 2
Core modules
- Bending the Truth A Little? Researching Politics and International Relations - 20 credits
Optional Modules
- Comparative European Politics - 20 credits
- International Thought - 20 credits
- British Political Leadership - 20 credits
- Climate Crises - 20 credits
- US Politics - 20 credits
- Analysing Foreign Policy - 20 credits
- Autocracy and Democracy - 20 credits
- Development and Democracy in Latin America - 20 credits
- East Asian States and Societies - 20 credits
- Democracies on Five Continents: Politics and Policy Challenges - 20 credits
- Ideology and Politics - 20 credits
- Professional Experience - 20 credits
- The Geopolitics and Geo-Economics of Africa - 20 credits
- A History of US Foreign Policy: From the Great War to 9/11 - 20 credits
- Empire and its Afterlives in Britain, Europe and Africa - 20 credits
- Engaged Citizenship in Humanities and Social Sciences - 20 credits
- Global Security - 20 credits
- Intercultural Perspectives on Communication - 20 credits
- Marketing and Communication - 20 credits
- Modernity and Globalisation - 20 credits
- Nationalism and Migration: Chaos, Crisis and the Everyday - 20 credits
- News, Discourse and Media - 20 credits
- Principles of Economic Crime Investigation - 20 credits
- Puritans to Postmodernists: American Literature - 20 credits
- Russia, Central Europe and the World - 20 credits
- Transitional Justice and Human Rights - 20 credits
- Wildlife Crime: Threats and Response - 20 credits
Year 3
Core modules
- Global Capitalism: Past, Present and Future - 20 credits
Optional modules
- Dissertation (International Relations) - 40 credits
- Dissertation (Politics) - 40 credits
- Major Project - 40 credits
- Digital Media and Democracy - 20 credits
- NGOs and Social Movements - 20 credits
- Post-Brexit Politics - 20 credits
- Professional Development: Recruiters and Candidates - 20 credits
- Race, Rights and Development: Global Perspectives on Inequality and Social Justice - 20 credits
- Security Challenges in the Twenty-First Century - 20 credits
- Independent Project (International Relations) - 20 credits
- Independent Project (Politics) - 20 credits
- Decolonial Politics and Theory in International Relations - 20 credits
- France in the World: Global Actor or Global Maverick? - 20 credits
- International Security in the Asia-Pacific - 20 credits
- Looking for Utopia, Finding Dystopia? Ideas and Ideologies in the New Millennium - 20 credits
- Professional Experience - 20 credits
- Religion and Politics in Global Perspective - 20 credits
- The European Union: A Global Power in the Making? - 20 credits
