Our undergraduate courses allow you to customise your degree depending on your interests and career goals. Please find a full list of topics that are typically covered in our undergraduate courses below.

Year 1

• Political Research in the 21st Century
• Introduction to Politics
• World Politics
• Contemporary Themes in Comparative Politics
• Foundations of Political Economy
• Justice, Democracy and Citizenship
• Nine Ideas in International Security

Year 1, 2, or Final

• Introduction to Qualitative Methods
• Introduction to Quantitative Political Analysis I
• Introduction to Quantitative Political Analysis II

Year 2

• Political Theory from Hobbes
• Politics of International Development
• Politics in the UK
• Politics of the USA
• Theories of International Relations
• Politics of Contemporary China
• States and Markets: An Introduction to International Political Economy
• International Security
• Core Issues in Comparative Politics
• Themes in European Integration
• Capitalism and its Alternatives
• Intermediate Social Analytics: Survey Design and Data Collection
• Intermediate Social Analytics: Survey Analysis and Reporting
• Gender Matters in Politics and International Studies
• Public Policy for 21st Century Challenges

Final year

• Issues in Political Theory
• Gender and Development
• European Union Policy-Making
• Politics of Globalisation
• United States Foreign Policy
• Critical Security Studies
• State, Power, Freedom: European Political Theory
• The Political Economy of Money
• International Relations of the Americas
• Latin America: Democratisation and Development
• Dissertation
• Politics and Culture in the Middle East
• Violence, Rights, Justice and Peace in the Middle East
• War in the Twenty-First Century
• Quantitative Dissertation
• The Global Energy Challenge: Environment, Development & Security
• Applying Quantitative Methods to Social Research
• Experiments in the Social Sciences and Humanities
• Public Opinion
• The Politics of Climate Change