Politics: People and Power BA (Hons)

Course content What will you study?

Here is an overview of current modules available on this course. Regular updates may mean that exact module titles may differ.

Year 1

Mandatory

• Democracy: Past, Present and Future

Optional

• Unequal World
• Ideology and Conflict in Europe Since 1789
• Twentieth-Century Britain
• Welfare for All? the story of a dream
• Improving English Usage and Style in Academic Writing
• French Stage 1
• German Stage 1
• Spanish Stage 1

Year 2

Mandatory

• Pathways in Politics

Optional

• Politics Work Project
• Geographies of Development
• Twentieth-Century USA
• The German Lands in the Nineteenth Century
• Politics, Religion and Society in Ireland, 1690-1848
• Politics and Society in Twentieth-Century Russia
• Reporting Politics I
• Campaign Power - People, Pressure Groups and Social Debates
• 'Race' and Ethnicity in Contemporary Britain

Year 3

Mandatory

• Challenging Politics: people versus power across the globe
• Politics Independent Project

Optional

• Political Geography
• Nationalism
• Propaganda and Politics in the 20th Century
• British Imperialism c. 1784-1972
• Reporting Politics II
• Response to Crime: The Justice Process
• 'Race', Ethnicity and Education
• Risk Society
• Constructing Emotions: social / political perspectives