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Programme Start Date
September 2020/ January 2021
Programme Duration
Full-Time 3 Years
Part-Time 6 Years
Application Deadline
September Intake: 24 August
January Intake: 7 December
Campus
London
UCAS – Institution’s Code
N12

Our programme will introduce you to the setting and dynamics of global politics, with emphasis on contemporary issues and processes.

It will provide you with a deep understanding of policy, politics and power in the modern world, and the challenges and forces that shape these dynamics at the global and domestic levels. You’ll learn about political institutions and processes, business-government relations, and foreign policy and globalisation. It will help you to think critically about political and international events, ideas and institutions.

Level 1

Compulsory

Introduction to International Relations
20^th Century International History
Introduction to Politics
International Political Economy
Problems in Global Politics
Geopolitics
International Law

Level 2

Compulsory

Research Methods
British Government and Politics
Government and Politics of the Middle East
Introduction to Islamic History

Optional

Choose 4 from the following:

American Politics
Statecraft and Diplomacy
20^th Century European Politics and Foreign Relations
Genocide
Global Business Planning
Strategic Management

Level 3

Compulsory

Post-Communist Russia
Democratic Systems
Terrorism and Fundamentalism in the 20^th and 21^st Centuries
Dissertation

Optional

Choose 2 from the following:

Government and Politics of China
History of Economic Thought
International Migration
Africa and Globalization
International Migration and Refugee Law