Course Content
Year 1
Core modules in this year include:
- 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:
- Climate Crises - 20 credits
- The Geopolitics and Geo-Economics of Africa - 20 credits
Optional modules in this year include:
- Analysing Foreign Policy – 20 credits
- Development Economics – 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
- Gender and Sexuality – 20 credits
- Gender and Social Justice – 20 credits
- International Community Development – 20 credits
- Introduction to Teaching – 20 credits
- Managing Across Cultures – 20 credits
- Modern Foreign Language (Institution-wide Language Programme) – 20 credits
- Race and Racism – 20 credits
- Russian & Eurasian Politics – 20 credits
- Social Power, Elites and Dissent – 20 credits
- Study Abroad – 60 credits
- The Sociology of Education – 20 credits
Optional placement year
- work placement year between your 2nd and 3rd years
Year 3
Core modules in this year include:
- Rethinking Aid and Development – 20 credits
Optional modules in this year include:
- Dissertation (International Development) - 40 credits
- Major Project - 40 credits
- Health, Wellbeing and Happiness - 20 credits
- Sociology of Culture: Taste, Value and Celebrity - 20 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
- Decolonial Politics and Theory in International Relations - 20 credits
- Global Health - 20 credits
- Independent Project (International Development) - 20 credits
- Professional Experience - 20 credits
- Religion and Politics in Global Perspective - 20 credits
- Equality or Liberation? Theorising Social Justice - 20 credits
- Nationalism and Migration: Chaos, Crisis and the Everyday - 20 credits
