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

Please note that any modules listed below are indicative and may vary slightly from year to year.

Year 1

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

Year 2

• Political Theory from Hobbes
• Politics of International Development
• Politics in the UK
• Politics of the USA
• Theories of International Relations
• States and Markets: An Introduction to International Political Economy
• International Security
• Core Issues in Comparative Politics
• Themes in European Integration
• Capitalism and its Alternatives
• Public Policy for 21st Century Challenges
• Politics in Eastern Africa
• Gender Matters in Politics and International Studies
• The Political Economy of Southeast Asia
• Introduction to Casual Inference in Quantitative Political Analysis

Final year

• Issues in Political Theory
• Gender and Development
• European Union Policy-Making
• Politics of Globalisation
• United States Foreign Policy
• Critical Security Studies
• Vigilant State: Understanding Secret Intelligence
• Violence and Reconciliation in Eastern Africa
• The Political Economy of Money
• International Relations of the Americas
• Latin America: Democratisation and Development
• The Political Economy of Islam in Southeast Asia
• The Dynamic of Nuclear Proliferation
• Race and International Politics
• The Global Energy Challenge: Environment, Development, and Security
• The Politics of Climate Change
• The Future of Work
• Gender, Race and Militarism
• Discrimination and Appearance
• Russia in world Politics
• Determinants of Democracy: Analysing Emergence, Survival, and Fall
• Open Political Ideas
• PAIS UG Dissertation
• PAIS Quantitative Dissertation