Course Content
Year 1
- What is Politics?
- Introduction to Democratic Politics
- Introduction to International Politics
- Introduction to Political Theory
Year 2
- Political Enquiry in International Relations (30 credits)
Year 3
- one-year professional placement during your third year.
Recent placements include:
- Research Assistant with Demos
- Social Research Placement with the House of Commons Placement scheme
- Political and Social Research Intern with YouGov
- EU Events Intern with the British Chamber of Commerce in Brussels
- Communications Assistant with Sainsburys
- Communications & Government Affairs Placement with GSK
Year 4
- Politics Dissertation
Year 2
Group A
- Contemporary Democracy and Struggles for Social Justice
- History of Political Thought
- State, Economy and Society
- Empire, War and Law
- The Politics of Gender
Group B
- Politics in the United Kingdom
- The European Union: Politics and Policies
- Politics of Development
- The Rising Powers
Group C
- War and Peace
- The United States and Global Politics After the Cold War
- Critical Global Security Studies
- Global Political Economy
Year 4
- Governing the Global Economy
- Green Politics
- Karl Marx
- Border Politics: Contemporary Perspectives on Sovereignty, Mobility & Citizenship
- The Labour Party and Britain’s Struggle for Socialism
- Ethnicity and Conflict
- ‘We the people’: Ideas of Democratic Representation from Rousseau to Occupy
- Terrorism and Counterterrorism
- Global Politics of Nuclear Weapons
- Africa and International Politics
- Knowledge and Democracy
- Contemporary Politics of South Asia
- Development Paradigms
- From War to Peace: Statebuilding and Political Transition in South East Asia
- British Foreign Policy after the Cold War
- Political Transition in the Middle East: A Century of Conflict
- Governmentality: Michel Foucault and the Analytics of Power
- Political Economy of New Europe
- The Idea of Liberty
- The European Far Right
- Politics and the Street
- Regionalism in World Politics
- Global Sustainability and Energy Policy
- The Politics of (Post) Colonialism
- International Relations of the Asia-Pacific
- Politics of Peace after Civil War
- Democracy and Emergency
- Ethics and International Politics
- Political Psychology and Public Opinion
- International Crisis Diplomacy
