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Politics and International Relations
Degree programmes
Economics options include: Games and Strategies •
Microeconomics 2 • Macroeconomics 2 • Statistical
Methods in Economics • Introductory Econometrics
Geography and Politics
LL72 BA/GeoPol (three years)
Programme description
This degree programme is for you if you are interested
in current affairs as well as the dynamic environmental,
social and cultural systems and processes in the world
around us. It explores the spatial and social aspects of
government activity, and will extend your knowledge of
political theory and practice by relating politics to its
geographical context.
The BA Geography and Politics entails an exploration
of the geographical bases of politics alongside the study
of political theory and practice. Within geography, your
choices will usually fall within human geography with
modules on cities, public policy, and Third World
development. You make your choice of modules and
final-year project with the guidance of a personal tutor.
You must, on average, divide your studies equally
between Geography and Politics each year.
Programme outline
Year 1 Core module: Introduction to Politics • Politics
options include: Introduction to International Relations •
Comparative Government and Politics • Geography
compulsory modules: Introduction to Geographical Ideas
and Practice • Critical Human Geographies • Options
include: Geographical Perspectives • Environment,
Nature and Society • Critical Human Geographies •
Reinventing Britain • Research Methods in Social
Sciences I (Statistics) • Research Methods in Social
Sciences II (Interviewing and Surveys)
Year 2 Geography options include: Geographical
Research in Practice • Geographical Information
Systems • Health, Inequality and Society • Society,
Culture and Space • Urban Futures • Politics options
include: British Politics • Elections, Parties and
Government • Global Governance • International Politics
of the Developing World • International Relations:
Theories and Concepts • Modern Political Thought •
Political Theories of the State, Economy and Society •
War and Security in World Politics
Ideas • French Politics • Theory and Practice in
Environmental Politics • European Politics: National
Identity and Ethnicity • Liberalism, Past and Present
History and Politics
LV21 BA/HisPol (three years)
Programme description
This degree is jointly taught (50:50) by the Schools of
History and Politics and reflects the close links between
the two subject areas. It provides an opportunity to
understand the modern world by studying the evolution
of political ideas and institutions alongside the historical
development of the major powers.
Programme outline
Year 1 Historical Writing for Undergraduates History
options include • The Road From 1945: Britain Since
the Second World War • Europe Since 1890 • Politics
options include: Introduction to Politics • International
Relations since 1914 • Comparative Government and
Politics
Year 2 History options include: Methods of History •
Britain and Europe 1945-73 • The Great War: British
Experience, Literature and Myth • Left in Western
Europe • Victorian Political Thought • Politics Core
module: Modern Political Thought • Politics options
include: British Politics • Elections, Parties and
Government • Global Governance • International Politics
of the Developing World • International Relations:
Theories and Concepts • Political Theories of the State,
Economy and Society • War and Security in World
Politics
Year 3 History options include: History Research
Dissertation • Kennedy Years • Cabinet and Premiership
• Concepts of Europe • Politics in the Age of the Pitts
c1735 – 1806 • Politics options include: Case Studies in
Ethnic Conflict: Ireland and Northern Ireland • Electoral
Behaviour • Theories of the Self • European Integration
and the European Union as a Political System • The
Politics of Economic Ideas • French Politics • Theory
and Practice in Environmental Politics • European
Politics: National Identity and Ethnicity • Liberalism,
Past and Present
Year 3 Geography options include: Gender and
Development • Geographies of Home • Geographies
of Labour • Geography, Identity, Belonging • Global
Historical Geographies • Independent Geographical
Study • Health, Place and Diversity • Regional
Economics and Policy • Spaces of Post-Socialism • The
Geography of HIV/AIDS • The Politics of Development •
Urbanism, Culture and Modernity • Victorian London •
Politics options include: Electoral Behaviour • Theories
of the Self • European Integration and the European
Union as a Political System The Politics of Economic