📖Program Curriculum
The module details given below are indicative they are intended to provide you with an idea of the range of subjects that are taught to our current students. The modules that will be available for you to study in future years are prone to change as we regularly review our teaching to ensure that it is up-to-date and informed by the latest research and teaching methods. The information presented is therefore not intended to be construed and/or relied upon as a definitive list of the modules available in any given year.
Year 1
COMPULSORY MODULES
Why Politics Matters
Social inequalities in the contemporary world
Social and Political Theory
Introduction to International Relations
Modern Democracies
Classical Sociology
OPTIONAL MODULES
Justice Authority and Power
Investigating Social Issues
Securing Global Order
The Anthropological Imagination
Year 2
COMPULSORY MODULES
Globalisation and its Discontents
Research Methods
Freedom and Equality
Why Policy Changes
OPTIONAL MODULES
British Government and Politics
International Organisation: Mitigating Anarchy
African Politics (Level 5)
The International Politics of the Middle East: A Century of War and Diplomacy
Cultures of Consumption
Contemporary Social Theory
Producing Sociological Knowledge
The Magic of Modernity
Year 3
COMPULSORY MODULES
Dissertation - ISP
OPTIONAL MODULES
The Missing Dimension : Conspiracies Spying and International Relations
The Extreme Right in Western Europe
Moving People: Migration Emotion Identity
Human Rights: Concepts Norms and Identities
Contemporary Democratic Theory
Israel/Palestine: Key Debates and Issues
Britain and War Since 1945: War Cold War and Society
Home: belonging Locality and Material Culture
Consuming Nature
Gender Power and Representation