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 optional 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
• The Political Economy of Money
• The Politics of Religion
• Latin America: Democratisation and Development
• International Relations of the Americas
• Politics and Culture in the Middle East
• Violence, Rights, Justice and Peace in the Middle East
• Race and International Politics
• The Politics of Climate Change
• The Political Economy of Islam in Southeast Asia
• The Global Energy Challenge: Environment, Development, and Security
• 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