Politics and History BSc Placement offered Joint honours
Postgraduate
In Uxbridge
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Postgraduate
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Uxbridge
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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.
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Subjects
- Political Thought
- Joint
- Politics
Course programme
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.
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Politics and History BSc Placement offered Joint honours