BSc in Politics and International Relations
Programme Code: UBPOLIR
Department: Government
For students starting this programme of study in 2016/17
Guidelines for interpreting programme regulations
Please note that places are limited on some optional courses. Admission onto any particular course is not guaranteed and may be subject to timetabling constraints and/or students meeting specific prerequisite requirements.
Paper |
Course number, title (unit value) | |
See note |
91桃色100 The 91桃色 Course: Understanding the causes of things | |
Year 1 | ||
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Paper 1 |
GV101 Introduction to Political Science (1.0) | |
Paper 2 |
IR100 International Relations: Theories, Concepts and Debates (1.0) | |
Paper 3 |
GV100 Introduction to Political Theory (1.0) or | |
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HY116 International Politics since 1914: Peace and War (1.0) | |
Paper 4 |
Courses to the value of 1.0 unit(s) from the following: | |
Year 2 | ||
Paper 5 |
If GV100 was not taken in Year 1, then students must select: | |
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GV100 Introduction to Political Theory (1.0) | |
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OR | |
If both GV100 and GV101 were taken in Year 1, then courses to the value of 1.0 unit(s) from the following: | ||
Paper 6 |
GV248 Power and Politics in the Modern World: Comparative Perspectives (1.0) # | |
Papers 7 & 8 |
Two from the following: | |
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IR200 International Political Theory (1.0) | |
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IR202 Foreign Policy Analysis 1 (1.0) | |
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IR205 International Security (1.0) | |
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IR206 International Political Economy (1.0) | |
Year 3 | ||
Paper 9 |
Courses to the value of 1.0 unit(s) from the following: | |
Paper 10 |
Whichever course was not taken in Year 2: | |
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IR202 Foreign Policy Analysis 1 (1.0) or | |
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Paper 11 |
Courses to the value of 1.0 unit(s) from the following: | |
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GV390 Government Dissertation Option (1.0) | |
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IR398 Dissertation (1.0) | |
Paper 12 |
Courses to the value of 1.0 unit from the following: B | |
Notes |
91桃色100 is taken by all students in the Lent Term of Year 1 and the Michaelmas Term of Year 2. The course is compulsory but does not affect the final degree classification. | |
International Relations Options List
IR205 International Security (1.0) | |
IR206 International Political Economy (1.0) | |
IR305 Strategic Aspects of International Relations (1.0) (not available 2019/20) | |
IR312 Genocide (0.5) | |
IR313 Managing China's Rise in East Asia (0.5) | |
IR314 Southeast Asia: Intra-regional Politics and Security (0.5) | |
IR315 The Middle East and International Relations Theory (1.0) # | |
IR317 American Grand Strategy (0.5) # (not available 2019/20) | |
IR318 Visual International Politics (0.5) | |
IR320 Europe's Institutional Order (0.5) # (not available 2019/20) | |
IR321 Revolutions and World Politics (0.5) | |
IR322 Sovereignty, Rights and Justice: Issues in International Political Theory (0.5) | |
IR324 The Practices of Transitional Justice (0.5) # (not available 2019/20) | |
IR325 The Situations of the International Criminal Court (0.5) | |
IR326 The Rule of Law: A Global History (0.5) | |
IR347 Political Economy of International Labour Migration (0.5) | |
IR354 Governing International Political Economy: Lessons from the Past for the Future (0.5) # (not available 2019/20) | |
IR377 The Politics of Governance, Development and Security in Sub-Saharan Africa (0.5) (not available 2019/20) | |
IR378 Critical War Studies (0.5) | |
Government List A
GV247 Theories and Problems of Nationalism (1.0) # (withdrawn 2018/19) | |
GV248 Power and Politics in the Modern World: Comparative Perspectives (1.0) # | |
GV249 Research Design in Political Science (1.0) | |
GV251 Government, Politics and Public Policy in the European Union (1.0) # | |
Government List B
GV302 Key Themes in the History of Political Thought (1.0) # | |
GV307 Conflict and Cooperation: A Few Provocative Debates (0.5) | |
GV309 Politics of Money and Finance in Comparative Perspective (0.5) # | |
GV312 Advanced Topics in Government: Executive Politics (1.0) # | |
GV314 Empirical Research in Government (1.0) | |
GV315 Voting and Elections in Developing Democracies (0.5) # | |
GV318 Building Democracies from Conflict? Violence, Power-Sharing and Institutional Design (0.5) # | |
GV320 Populism (0.5) | |
GV321 Concepts and Controversies in Political Theory (0.5) # | |
GV322 Knowledge Economies: Global Innovation Networks and Segregated Societies (0.5) | |
GV323 Transparency and Accountability in Government (0.5) | |
GV328 Middle East Politics in Transnational Perspective (0.5) # | |
GV335 African Political Economy (0.5) | |
GV398 Inside the Mind of a Voter: Research in Electoral Psychology (1.0) | |
GV3A1 The Politics and Policies of 'Brexit': The UK's changing relationship with the European Union (0.5) | |
Undergraduate Outside Options List (Year 1)
Where the regulations refer to an approved paper taught outside the department, this means that you may take any course in a subject other than the principal subject(s) of your degree, subject to timetabling constraints and any restrictions listed in the Course Guides. If your degree is for joint honours (e.g. Philosophy and Economics) or is a major/minor combination (e.g., Geography with Economics), a course outside the department means a course taught in any department other than the two named in the title of your degree. The home department of each course is indicated by the first two letters in its code. | |
Outside Options for students in Year 1: | |
AC102 Elements of Financial Accounting (0.5) | |
AC103 Elements of Management Accounting, Financial Management and Financial Institutions (0.5) | |
AN100 Introduction to Social Anthropology (1.0) | |
AN101 Ethnography and Theory: Selected Texts (1.0) | |
AN102 Anthropology, Text and Film (1.0) | |
EH101 The Internationalisation of Economic Growth, 1870 to the present day (1.0) | |
GV100 Introduction to Political Theory (1.0) | |
GV101 Introduction to Political Science (1.0) | |
GY100 Introduction to Geography (1.0) | |
GY103 Contemporary Europe (1.0) | |
GY120 Environmental Change: Past, Present and Future (1.0) | |
GY121 Sustainable Development (1.0) | |
GY140 Introduction to Geographical Research (1.0) | |
HY113 From Empire to Independence: The Extra-European World in the Twentieth Century (1.0) | |
HY116 International Politics since 1914: Peace and War (1.0) | |
HY118 Faith, Power and Revolution: Europe and the Wider World, c.1500-c.1800 (1.0) | |
IR100 International Relations: Theories, Concepts and Debates (1.0) | |
LL104 Law of Obligations (1.0) | |
LL105 Property I (0.5) | |
LL106 Public Law (1.0) | |
LL108 Criminal Law (1.0) | |
LL109 Introduction to the Legal System (0.5) | |
LN104 Mandarin Language and Society Level 1 (Beginner) (1.0) # | |
LN142 Mandarin Language and Society 2 (Intermediate) (1.0) # | |
LN251 Comparative Literature and 20th Century Political History (1.0) # | |
LN270 Society and Language: Linguistics for Social Scientists (1.0) | |
PB101 Foundations of Psychological Science (1.0) | |
PB102 Social Psychology (1.0) | |
PH101 Logic (1.0) | |
PH103 The Big Questions: An Introduction to Philosophy (1.0) # | |
SA100 The Foundations of Social Policy (1.0) | |
SA101 Sociology and Social Policy (1.0) | |
SO100 Key Concepts: Introduction to Social Theory (1.0) | |
SO102 Data in Society: Researching Social Life (1.0) | |
SO110 Power, Inequality, and Difference: Contemporary Themes in Sociology (1.0) | |
Undergraduate Outside Options List (Years 2 & 3)
Where the regulations refer to an approved paper taught outside the department, this means that you may take any course in a subject other than the principal subject(s) of your degree, subject to timetabling constraints and any restrictions listed in the Course Guides. If your degree is for joint honours (e.g. Philosophy and Economics) or is a major/minor combination (e.g., Geography with Economics), a course outside the department means a course taught in any department other than the two named in the title of your degree. The home department of each course is indicated by the first two letters in its code. | |
Outside Options for students in Year 2 and Year 3: | |
AC102 Elements of Financial Accounting (0.5) | |
AC103 Elements of Management Accounting, Financial Management and Financial Institutions (0.5) | |
AC310 Management Accounting, Financial Management and Organisational Control (1.0) # | |
AC330 Financial Accounting, Analysis and Valuation. (1.0) # * | |
AN100 Introduction to Social Anthropology (1.0) | |
AN101 Ethnography and Theory: Selected Texts (1.0) | |
AN102 Anthropology, Text and Film (1.0) | |
AN200 The Anthropology of Kinship, Sex and Gender (1.0) | |
AN205 The Anthropology of Melanesia (0.5) | |
AN216 Cognition and Anthropology: Human Development in Cultural Environments (0.5) # (not available 2019/20) | |
AN221 The Anthropology of Christianity (0.5) # (not available 2019/20) | |
AN223 The Anthropology of Southeast Asia (0.5) (not available 2019/20) | |
AN226 Political and Legal Anthropology (1.0) | |
AN237 The Anthropology of Development (0.5) | |
AN240 Investigating the Philippines - New Approaches and Ethnographic Contexts (0.5) | |
AN243 Children and Youth in Contemporary Ethnography (0.5) # (not available 2019/20) | |
AN244 Anthropology and Media (0.5) * (withdrawn 2019/20) | |
AN245 Borders and Boundaries: Ethnographic Approaches (0.5) (not available 2019/20) | |
AN247 Anthropological Approaches to Questions of Being (0.5) (not available 2019/20) | |
AN250 The Anthropology of South Asia (0.5) # (not available 2019/20) | |
AN251 Cognition and Anthropology: Learning and Thinking in Relation to Social Institutions (0.5) # (not available 2019/20) | |
AN252 Anthropological Approaches to Value (0.5) | |
AN256 Economic Anthropology (1): Production and Exchange (0.5) | |
AN274 Subjectivity and Anthropology (0.5) # (not available 2019/20) | |
AN275 The Anthropology of Revolution (0.5) # (not available 2019/20) | |
AN276 Anthropology and the Anthropocene (0.5) * (not available 2019/20) | |
AN277 Topics in the Anthropology of sub-Saharan Africa (0.5) # * (not available 2019/20) | |
AN278 Anthropology and Global History (0.5) (not available 2019/20) | |
AN357 Economic Anthropology (2): Transformation and Globalisation (0.5) | |
EH101 The Internationalisation of Economic Growth, 1870 to the present day (1.0) | |
EH102 Pre-industrial Economic History (1.0) | |
EH204 Money and Finance: From the Middle Ages to Modernity (1.0) | |
EH207 The Making of an Economic Superpower: China since 1850 (1.0) | |
EH208 Economic History Lab: Cities, Economy and Society, 1550-1750 (1.0) * | |
EH225 Latin America and the International Economy (1.0) | |
EH238 The Origins of Growth (1.0) | |
EH240 Business and Economic Performance since 1945: Britain in International Context (1.0) | |
EH316 Atlantic World Slavery (1.0) | |
FM300 Corporate Finance, Investments and Financial Markets (1.0) # | |
GI200 Gender, Politics and Civil Society (1.0) (withdrawn 2018/19) | |
GV100 Introduction to Political Theory (1.0) | |
GV101 Introduction to Political Science (1.0) | |
GV248 Power and Politics in the Modern World: Comparative Perspectives (1.0) # * | |
GV251 Government, Politics and Public Policy in the European Union (1.0) # | |
GV302 Key Themes in the History of Political Thought (1.0) # * | |
GV307 Conflict and Cooperation: A Few Provocative Debates (0.5) | |
GV312 Advanced Topics in Government: Executive Politics (1.0) # * | |
GV318 Building Democracies from Conflict? Violence, Power-Sharing and Institutional Design (0.5) # * | |
GV320 Populism (0.5) | |
GV321 Concepts and Controversies in Political Theory (0.5) # * | |
GV322 Knowledge Economies: Global Innovation Networks and Segregated Societies (0.5) * | |
GV328 Middle East Politics in Transnational Perspective (0.5) # * | |
GV335 African Political Economy (0.5) | |
GY100 Introduction to Geography (1.0) | |
GY103 Contemporary Europe (1.0) | |
GY120 Environmental Change: Past, Present and Future (1.0) | |
GY121 Sustainable Development (1.0) | |
GY140 Introduction to Geographical Research (1.0) | |
GY202 Introduction to Global Development (1.0) | |
GY205 Political Geographies (1.0) | |
GY206 Urban Geography and Globalisation (0.5) | |
GY207 Economy, Society and Space (0.5) | |
GY209 The Economic Geography of Trade, Production and Development (0.5) # * | |
GY220 Environment: Science and Society (1.0) | |
GY222 Applied Environmental Economics (1.0) | |
GY308 The Economic Geography of Growth and Development (0.5) * | |
GY309 The Political Geography of Development (0.5) (not available 2019/20) | |
GY310 Urban Politics (0.5) | |
GY312 Geographies of Gender in the Global South (0.5) | |
GY313 Firms and Economic Geography: Location, Technology and Innovation (0.5) # * | |
GY314 The Economics of Housing Markets and Migration (0.5) # * | |
GY315 Geographies of Race (0.5) | |
GY326 Sustainable Business and Finance (0.5) | |
GY327 Global Environmental Governance (0.5) | |
GY328 Political Ecology of Development (0.5) | |
GY329 Applied Economics of Environment and Development (0.5) # | |
HY113 From Empire to Independence: The Extra-European World in the Twentieth Century (1.0) | |
HY116 International Politics since 1914: Peace and War (1.0) | |
HY200 The Rights of Man: the History of Human Rights Discourse from the Antigone to Amnesty International (1.0) * | |
HY206 The International History of the Cold War, 1945-1989 (1.0) | |
HY221 The History of Russia, 1682-1825 (1.0) | |
HY226 The Great War 1914-1918 (1.0) | |
HY232 War, Genocide and Nation Building. The History of South-Eastern Europe 1914-1990 (1.0) | |
HY235 Modernity and the State in East Asia: China, Japan and Korea since 1840 (1.0) | |
HY238 The Cold War and European Integration, 1947-1992 (1.0) | |
HY239 Latin America and the United States since 1898 (1.0) | |
HY240 From Empire to Commonwealth: war, race and imperialism in British History, 1780 to the present day (1.0) | |
HY241 What is History? Methods and Debates (1.0) | |
HY242 The Soviet Union: Domestic, International and Intellectual History (1.0) | |
HY244 Britain’s Atlantic World, 1688-1837 (1.0) | |
HY246 The Global Caribbean: Colonialism, Race and Revolutions 1780s-1980s (1.0) * | |
HY311 Limited War During the Cold War Era: The US in Korea (1950-53) and Vietnam (1954-75) (1.0) * | |
HY315 The European Enlightenment, c.1680-1799 (1.0) | |
HY320 The Cold War Endgame (1.0) | |
HY322 Nazi Germany's War: Violence and Occupation in Europe, 1939-1945 (1.0) | |
HY323 Travel, Pleasure and Politics: The European Grand Tour, 1670-1825 (1.0) | |
HY324 Muslim-Jewish Relations: History and Memory in the Middle East and Europe, 622-1945 (1.0) * | |
HY325 Retreat from Power: British foreign and defence policy, 1931-68 (1.0) | |
HY326 Slavery, Capital, and Empire in the British World, 1700-1900 (1.0) | |
HY327 The Anglo-American Special Relationship, 1939-89 (1.0) * | |
HY328 The Arab-Israeli Conflict: Nationalism, Territory, Religion (1.0) * | |
HY329 Independent India: Myths of Freedom and Development (1.0) | |
HY330 From Tea to Opium: China and the Global Market in the Long Eighteenth Century (1.0) | |
IR200 International Political Theory (1.0) | |
IR202 Foreign Policy Analysis 1 (1.0) | |
IR202.2 Contemporary Foreign Policy in Practice (0.0) | |
IR205 International Security (1.0) | |
IR305 Strategic Aspects of International Relations (1.0) (not available 2019/20) | |
IR312 Genocide (0.5) | |
IR315 The Middle East and International Relations Theory (1.0) # | |
IR317 American Grand Strategy (0.5) # * (not available 2019/20) | |
IR322 Sovereignty, Rights and Justice: Issues in International Political Theory (0.5) * | |
IR347 Political Economy of International Labour Migration (0.5) * | |
IR354 Governing International Political Economy: Lessons from the Past for the Future (0.5) # * (not available 2019/20) | |
LL104 Law of Obligations (1.0) | |
LL105 Property I (0.5) | |
LL106 Public Law (1.0) | |
LL108 Criminal Law (1.0) | |
LL201 Administrative Law (1.0) (not available 2019/20) | |
LL232 Law and Institutions of the European Union (1.0) | |
LL241 European Legal History (1.0) | |
LL250 Law and The Environment (1.0) | |
LL251 Intellectual Property Law (1.0) | |
LL259 Legal and Social Change since 1750 (1.0) | |
LL278 Public International Law (1.0) | |
LL293 Tax and Tax Avoidance (1.0) | |
LL295 Media Law (1.0) | |
LL300 Competition Law (1.0) | |
LL301 Global Commodities Law (1.0) * (not available 2019/20) | |
LN104 Mandarin Language and Society Level 1 (Beginner) (1.0) # | |
LN132 French Language and Society 2 (intermediate) (1.0) # * | |
LN142 Mandarin Language and Society 2 (Intermediate) (1.0) # | |
LN251 Comparative Literature and 20th Century Political History (1.0) # | |
LN270 Society and Language: Linguistics for Social Scientists (1.0) | |
MA318 History of Mathematics in Finance and Economics (0.5) # | |
MG208 Business Transformation and Project Management (0.5) | |
MG209 E-business (0.5) | |
MG210 Corporate Social Responsibility and International Labour Standards (0.5) # | |
MG212 Marketing (0.5) | |
MG213 Information Systems (0.5) | |
MG228 Managing the Stone-Age Brain (0.5) | |
MG303 International Business Strategy and Emerging Markets (0.5) # | |
MG305 Innovation and Technology Management (0.5) | |
MG307 International Context of Management (0.5) | |
MG312 Extreme Organisational Behaviour: Examining behaviour in non-normative organisational contexts (0.5) # | |
PB101 Foundations of Psychological Science (1.0) | |
PB102 Social Psychology (1.0) | |
PH103 The Big Questions: An Introduction to Philosophy (1.0) # | |
PH222 Philosophy and Public Policy (1.0) | |
PH228 Emotion, Cognition and Behaviour: Science and Policy (0.5) | |
PH230 Einstein for Everyone: From time travel to the edge of the universe (0.5) # | |
PH232 Physics and the City: From Quantum Jumps to Stock Market Crashes (0.5) # | |
PH332 Effective Philanthropy: Ethics and Evidence (0.5) (not available 2019/20) | |
SA217 Psychology of Crime and Criminal Justice (1.0) | |
SA218 Criminological Perspectives (1.0) | |
SA221 Poverty, Inequality, and Social Policy (1.0) | |
SA223 Health and Social Care Policy (1.0) | |
SA303 Sexuality, Everyday Lives and Social Policy in Developing Countries (0.5) | |
SA304 Migration: Current research, critical approaches (0.5) | |
SA309 Crime Control: Ideas and Controversies (1.0) (withdrawn 2019/20) | |
SO100 Key Concepts: Introduction to Social Theory (1.0) | |
SO102 Data in Society: Researching Social Life (1.0) | |
SO110 Power, Inequality, and Difference: Contemporary Themes in Sociology (1.0) | |
SO201 Key Concepts: Advanced Social Theory (1.0) | |
SO203 Political Sociology (1.0) | |
SO208 Gender and Society (1.0) | |
SO210 Crime, Deviance and Control (1.0) | |
SO221 Researching London: Advanced Social Research Methods (1.0) | |
SO224 The Sociology of Race and Ethnicity (1.0) | |
SO230 Digital Technology, Speed and Culture (1.0) (withdrawn 2018/19) | |
SO233 Reactionary Radicalism: Populism and Authoritarianism in the 21st Century (0.5) # * | |
SO308 Personal Life, Intimacy and the Family (1.0) | |
ST202 Probability, Distribution Theory and Inference (1.0) # | |
ST213 Introduction to Pricing, Hedging and Optimization (0.5) # | |
Footnotes for Undergraduate Outside Options List (Years 2 & 3)~A : EC102 is dependent on Economics A-level or equivalent background. ~B : MA331 can be taken in Year 3 only. ~C : MG301 can be taken in Year 3 only. ~D : MG302 can be taken in Year 3 only. ~E : PH101 is not available to BSc in Economics students. ~F : SA100 can be taken in Year 2 only. ~G : SA101 is not to be taken by third year Social Policy students. ~H : SA104 is only available to second year students who have taken SA100. ~I : SA201 is not to be taken by second or third year Sociology students. | |
Prerequisite Requirements and Mutually Exclusive Options for Undergraduate Outside Options List (Years 2 & 3)~1 : EC220 can not be taken with MG205 ~2 : EC221 can not be taken with MG205 | |
Prerequisite Requirements and Mutually Exclusive Options
* means available with permission
Footnotes
A : Available on the BSc in Philosophy, Politics and Economics only. Not available to students on other programmes.
B : Courses selected from the Undergraduate Outside Options List must be approved.
# means there may be prerequisites for this course. Please view the course guide for more information.
Note for prospective students:
For changes to undergraduate course and programme information for the next academic session, please see the . Changes to course and programme information for future academic sessions can be found on the .
