Politics & International Relations

Bachelor's degree

In Liverpool

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  • Type

    Bachelor's degree

  • Location

    Liverpool

  • Duration

    3 Years

  • Start date

    Different dates available

Hear from one of our tutors about studying Politics & International Relations at Liverpool Hope.
A degree in Politics & International Relations offers you the opportunity to deal with a subject that is vital to understanding the key issues of our society and our world today. This course has a special emphasis on the international and global dimension of politics and you will be working with a subject team who are recognised experts in the field. During your time at Liverpool Hope, you can take part in our extensive programme of visiting speakers, fieldtrips, and overseas exchanges.

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Liverpool (Merseyside)
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Hope Park, L16 9JD

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Entry Requirements
2017 Entry Requirements
The offer level for 2017 entry will be BCC - BBB at A Level or DMM - DDM at BTEC Extended Diploma or 104 - 128 new UCAS tariff points.
UCAS points offers can be achieved in many ways, the following are just a few examples of how you could achieve our entry requirements:
Three A Levels with grades of BBC or above
Two A Levels with grades AB and one AS Level grade A
BTEC Extended Diploma (QCF) with grade DMM
BTEC Diploma (QCF) with grade DM and BTEC Subsidiary Diploma (QCF) with grade M
BTEC Diploma (QCF)...

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Subjects

  • International
  • Politics
  • International Relations
  • Democracy
  • Foreign Policy
  • Project

Course programme

<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>Politics: You will take a lecture series&nbsp;entitled ‘The Foundations of Politics’. This&nbsp;will comprise three lectures per week,&nbsp;each lasting one hour, and will introduce&nbsp;you to the discipline and a range of its key&nbsp;theories. In addition to this you will take&nbsp;two seminars. These are entitled Political&nbsp;Institutions and Political Actors. They&nbsp;consider the core structural components of politics and how individuals and groups&nbsp;interact with these institutions. In addition&nbsp;you will participate in a weekly small&nbsp;group tutorial which considers skills and&nbsp;research methods in politics.</p> <p>International Relations: 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>Politics: The lecture series in your&nbsp;second year considers Democracy and&nbsp;considers its strengths and weaknesses&nbsp;as a political system. It build upon&nbsp;your learning in the first year and looks&nbsp;at the evolution and implementation&nbsp;of democracy from Athens to the&nbsp;present day. Two seminar series look at&nbsp;democracy and the use of it in the United&nbsp;Kingdom, and the variety of forms of&nbsp;democracy found in Europe. Through the&nbsp;integration of these strands of thought&nbsp;it is possible to come to an enhanced&nbsp;understanding of democracy as the most&nbsp;popular form of governance in the modern&nbsp;world, replete with significant variations&nbsp;in its understanding and practice. The&nbsp;small group tutorials consider a range of&nbsp;alternative ideologies to democracy and&nbsp;give alternative viewpoint about popular&nbsp;governance.</p> <p>International Relations: 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>Politics: In the final year a research&nbsp;project is undertaken on an agreed subject&nbsp;area. Thereafter the core lecture series&nbsp;looks at two topics: politics in the United States,&nbsp;and&nbsp;Social and Political Theory in which students will have the opportunity to examine how different thinkers in the history of modern political thought have conceptualised the state and the boundaries of politics and power.&nbsp;Seminars undertaken serve to reinforce&nbsp;an understanding of this, with one series on the&nbsp;US presidency and American politics and&nbsp;another, entitled ‘How to Grasp Power’, which specifically addresses key debates and concepts in the analysis of power in political contexts.&nbsp; Both&nbsp;give&nbsp;an historical understanding of issues,&nbsp;enhance your understanding&nbsp;of current political and economic dilemmas&nbsp;and allow research into a number&nbsp;of contentious areas. A tutorial series&nbsp;is designed to give support in research&nbsp;methods and to assist in the production&nbsp;of a high quality research project involving Politics and International Relations material.</p> <p>International Relations: 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/internationalrelations/">International Relations</a></p> <p><a href="/undergraduate/undergraduatecourses/law/">Law</a></p> <p><a href="http://www.hope.ac.uk/undergraduate/undergraduatecourses/llblaw/">Law LLB</a></p> <p><a href="/undergraduate/undergraduatecourses/politics/">Politics</a></p> </div>

Politics & International Relations

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