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; this list reflects the modules that are running in 22/23.

Please note that any optional modules listed below are indicative and may vary 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
• The Politics of China
• States and Markets: An Introduction to International Political Economy
• International Security
• Core Issues in Comparative Politics
• Themes in European Integration
• Public Policy for 21st Century Challenges
• The Political Economy of Southeast Asia
• Introduction to Casual Inference in Quantitative Political Analysis
• Gender Matters in Politics and International Studies

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
• War in the 21st Century
• The Politics of Religion
• Politics and Culture in the Middle East
• Violence, Rights, Justice and Peace in the Middle East
• Race and International Politics
• The Global Energy Challenge: Environment, Development, and Security
• The Politics of Climate Change
• Determinants of Democracy: Analysing Emergence, Survival, and Fall
• PAIS UG Dissertation
• PAIS Quantitative Dissertation
• Vigilant State: The Politics of Intelligence
• The Dynamics of Nuclear Proliferation
• The Future of Work
• Discrimination and Appearance
• International Politics of Migration, Refugees and Diasporas
• Russia in World Politics