Politics and History BSc Placement offered Joint honours

Postgraduate

In Uxbridge

Price on request

Description

  • Type

    Postgraduate

  • Location

    Uxbridge

  • Start date

    Different dates available

This degree will help you gain knowledge of the exciting world of modern politics while examining the societies, life and significant events of the past. You will get an understanding of contemporary political issues by studying key institutions and players and will also explore the 17th to the 20th centuries’ world history.

Facilities

Location

Start date

Uxbridge (Middlesex)
Brunel University, UB8 3PH

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About this course

IELTS: 6.5 (min 5.5 in all areas)
Pearson: 58 (51 in all subscores)
BrunELT: 65% (min 55% in all areas)

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Subjects

  • Political Thought
  • Joint
  • Politics

Course programme

Course Content

This degree draws on the skills and expertise of all the disciplines that make up the Department of Politics, History and the Brunel Law School.

In addition to the Politics half of the course, and the writing of a dissertation at Level 3, you will take modules in historiography and historical skills, covering a wide variety of historical periods and substantive themes.

The BSc consists of both compulsory and optional modules, a typical selection can be found below. Modules can vary from year to year, but these offer a good idea of what we teach.

Level 1

Compulsory

  • Research Design and Qualitative Methods
  • Modern Political Thought
  • Modern British Politics
  • What is History?

Optional

Choose 2 from the following:

  • Revolution, Liberty and the Origins of American Democracy
  • Capital, Labour and Power: Britain, 1707-1939
  • History, Memory and Culture in Europe since 1789
  • The Making of the Modern World
  • Migration and the Settler World, 1600-1914

Level 2

Compulsory

  • Comparative Political Institutions
  • Historians and their Craft
  • Explaining Politics: Quantitative Political Science in Practice

Optional

Choose 3 from the following:

  • US Foreign Policy from World War 2 to the End of the Cold War
  • Issues in American Politics
  • Political Geography
  • Theories of International Relations
  • Slavery and Abolition in the Atlantic World
  • The First World War - Causes, Course, Consequences
  • Australia and The Modern World
  • Themes in the History of Modern Africa
  • The State and Revolution
  • History of the Women’s Movement in the West, c. 1790-1930
  • National Security Intelligence
  • Ancient Greek Political Thought
  • Unity and Cultural Diversity

Level 3

Compulsory

  • Dissertation (This may be taken in Politics, or jointly between Politics and History)
  • European Union Politics: Problems and Prospects

Optional

Choose 3 from the following:

  • Psychogeography
  • History of Political Thought
  • Globalisation and Governance
  • Empire, Imperialism and Hegemony
  • Media, Politics and Power in America
  • Marx and Marxism
  • Parties and Voters in the UK
  • Public Policy Analysis
  • Parliamentary Studies
  • Fascism
  • The Second World War
  • The British Maritime World, 1660-1815
  • Crisis and Critique

Read more about the structure of undergraduate degrees at Brunel and what you will learn on the course.


Additional information

Teaching and Assessment Teaching Staff expertise Many of our lecturers are authors of books and well-regarded scholarly articles. They present papers to universities at home and abroad, as well as acting as regular media performers worldwide. Their research has led to major television and radio programmes. You will benefit from their exciting contacts and inside knowledge. Student support We are committed to helping you progress confidently through the levels of your programme. To achieve this, we devote as much care to your initiation into higher education, both by entry-level courses and study skills teaching, as to the completion of your learning at Level 3. By your final year, therefore, you will benefit from the specialist research-led courses and will be prepared for the research and writing involved in your dissertation. How will I be taught? Modules are taught by a mixture of lectures and seminars. Depending on its credit-rating, you can expect to have one or two hours of lectures per week for each module and a one-hour seminar each week or fortnight. Lectures – These provide a broad overview of key themes and ideas relating to your course and establish a framework from which to carry out more in-depth study. Seminars – These relatively small groups examine the lecture material in more detail, theoretical concepts are analysed and applied in specific contexts. Seminars provide students with an opportunity for discussion, debate and the development of presentational skills. One-to-one – You will get one-to-one supervision on your final year dissertation and at all levels you will have a tutor who is available to discuss personal and academic problems. If you go on a placement, you will also be allocated a work placement tutor who will ensure your progress and provide further support if you need it.. Private study – The bulk of every student’s work will undoubtedly consist of private study

Politics and History BSc Placement offered Joint honours

Price on request