International Relations

<div id="tab2" class="tab grid_8 alpha hide-on-small" style="display: block;"> <div class="courseLinks hide-on-medium-down"> <img src="/media/liverpoolhope/styleassets/cssimages/media,975,en.gif" alt="print Icon" style="width : 24px; height : 24px; "> <span><a href="javascript:window.print()">print this page</a></span> <span class="st_sharethis_custom" st_processed="yes"><a href="#">share this course</a></span> </div> <h2>Curriculum</h2> <h2>Level C (Year One)</h2> <p>You will take a lecture series entitled&nbsp;‘The Foundations of International Relations’.&nbsp;This will comprise three lectures per week, each lasting one hour, and will introduce&nbsp;you to the discipline and its most influential,&nbsp;structural theories. To reinforce your learning in the lectures you will take two seminars. The first of these, ‘Key concepts in the&nbsp;study of International Relations’ will better&nbsp;prepare you to deal with the theories that&nbsp;characterise the discipline whereas the ‘International&nbsp;Relations Weekly Briefing’ will give you&nbsp;the opportunity, in seminars, to explore&nbsp;and debate ‘real world’ developments.&nbsp;In addition you will participate in a weekly&nbsp;small group tutorial.</p> <p>Assessment methods include essays,&nbsp;exams and tutorial workbooks.</p> <h2>Level I (Year Two)</h2> <p>The second year programme is based around two components. First of all, there is a lecture series on “Understanding International Relations”, which builds and expands on the theoretical ideas you will have studied in first year and which goes on to examine a range of key issues and problems. These are discussed from both theoretical and practical perspectives. The practical side of the programme is focused particularly on the challenges and structures of foreign policy, and there is a supporting seminar series focused on foreign policy. This looks at theoretical approaches to foreign policy analysis, and then develops a series of in-depth case study evaluations. These may include analyses of the foreign policies of particular countries, such as the UK or the United States, and of the foreign policy behaviour of international organisations, such as the European Union. The small group tutorials will continue to&nbsp;reinforce your learning.</p> <p>Assessment methods include essays, exams and extended projects.</p> <h2>Level H (Year Three)</h2> <p>As you would&nbsp;expect in your final year the pace steps up a&nbsp;gear and so too the complexity of the ideas&nbsp;and arguments you encounter. The lecture&nbsp;series, ‘Critiquing theories, unsettling&nbsp;assumptions: re-visiting knowledge and&nbsp;understanding in International Relations’,&nbsp;scrutinises and deconstructs that which&nbsp;was encountered in the first two years&nbsp;to leave you with a very nuanced, critical&nbsp;understanding of International Relations&nbsp;theory and ‘real world’ dynamics. You also specialise through seminars in ‘Security, Peace and Conflict' and ‘Economic crisis and political conflict’. Your tutorials will focus&nbsp;on supporting you through independent&nbsp;research with the focus of this work&nbsp;agreed between you and your supervising&nbsp;academic tutor.</p> <p>Assessment methods include a research&nbsp;project, a two hour exam and essay&nbsp;coursework.</p> <h2>You may also be interested in...</h2> <p><a href="/undergraduate/undergraduatecourses/history/">History</a></p> <p><a href="/undergraduate/undergraduatecourses/law/">Law</a></p> <p><a href="/undergraduate/undergraduatecourses/politics/">Politics</a></p> <p><a href="/undergraduate/undergraduatecourses/politicsandinternationalrelations/">Politics and International Relations</a></p> <p><a href="/undergraduate/undergraduatecourses/worldreligions/">World Religions</a></p> </div>