Course Content
Year 1
Core modules
- Critical Thinking and Professional Identity - 40 credits
- Global Development - 20 credits
- Key Themes in International Relations - 20 credits
- Political Thought - 20 credits
- The Making of the Global South - 20 credits
Year 2
Core modules in this year include:
- International Thought - 20 credits
- Bending the Truth A Little? Researching Politics and International Relations - 20 credits
- The Geopolitics and Geo-Economics of Africa - 20 credits
Optional modules in this year include:
- Analysing Foreign Policy - 20 credits
- East Asian States and Societies - 20 credits
- US Politics - 20 credits
- Climate Crises - 20 credits
- Gender and Social Justice - 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
- Professional Experience - 20 credits
- Russia, Central Europe and the World - 20 credits
Year 3
Core modules in this year include:
- Rethinking Aid and Development - 20 credits
- Security Challenges in the Twenty-first Century – 20 credits
Optional modules in this year include:
- Dissertation (International Relations) - 40 credits
- Major Project - 40 credits
- Global Capitalism: Past, Present and Future - 20 credits
- NGOs and Social Movements - 20 credits
- Professional Development: Recruiters and Candidates - 20 credits
- Race, Rights and Development: Global Perspectives on Inequality and Social Justice - 20 credits
- Independent Project (International Relations) - 20 credits
- Decolonial Politics and Theory in International Relations - 20 credits
- France in the World: Global Actor or Global Maverick? - 20 credits
- Global Health - 20 credits
- International Security in the Asia-Pacific - 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
