B.A. Politics (Hons)

All year one units are compulsory.

• Introduction to Political Thought
• Introduction to International Relations: States, Conflict and Cooperation
• Understanding Governance and Politics
• Introduction to Political Economy
• Current Political Issues
• Global Issues

Alongside year two's core study, you are able to select options that shape your degree to the issues or countries that most interest you.

• Comparative Politics
• Policy and Politics

Options from a range, including:

• Comparative Politics
• Policy and Politics
• Comparing Extremism in European Liberal Democracies
• Conflict and Disaster
• Culture and Ideas in Twentieth Century Europe
• International Politics
• International Politics of the Middle East
• Democratisation in Latin America
• US Foreign Policy: Ideals and Self Interests
• Global Environmental Issues and Concerns
• American Civil War
• Nation, Language and Identity
• Colonialism and End Of Empire in Black Africa
• Governing the EU
• German Unity and its Consequences
• Governing the European Union
• US Government and Politics
• Colonialism and End of Empire: France and Algeria
• International Community Development
• Chinese Politics and Society
• Fighting Over Europe
• The French Exception
• Learning From Experience (Faculty Wide Option)
• Languages (University Wide Option)

In year three, you will write your dissertation, or undertake a work-based project, alongside further core and optional study.

• Dissertation
• Modern Political Ideologies
• Democracy and Democratisation

Options including:

• Civil Rights in the USA and its Legacy
• Global Political Economy
• Nazi Germany
• Protecting the Environment
• Development and Foreign Aid
• Coming to Terms with the National Socialist Past: 1945–today
• France in the World: Global Actor or Global Maverick?
• Strategic and Security Studies
• Transitional Justice & Human Rights in L America
• Transnational EU
• Political Economy of the EU
• Learning from Experience (Faculty Wide Option)