BA Politics and International Relations

at Durham University

Year 1

Compulsory modules:

• Researching Politics and International Relations

• Introduction to Comparative Politics

• Introduction to International Relations

• Political Theory.

Plus two of the following:

• Democratic Political Systems

• International Security, Interdependence and Organisation

• Global Regions in International Relations OR ONE module offered by another department OR ONE module offered by the Centre for Foreign Language Study.

Year 2
 

Compulsory modules:

• Research Project

• EITHER Foundations of Western Political Thought OR Analytical Politics

• EITHER International Theory OR International Organisations.

Plus THREE of the following modules which can include the one above not chosen previously.

These may vary annually but in the past have included:

• Democracy, Conflict and American Society

• International Theory

• The Politics of Pacific Asia

• Foundations of Western Political Thought

• International Organisations

• Sovereignty, State and Empire

• Global Political Economy

• Middle East in the International System

• Democratic Theory

• Politics and Identity in Contemporary Germany

• Class, Nation and British Politics

• Analytical Politics

• Crises and Conflict in European Studies OR ONE module offered by another department OR ONE module offered by the Centre for Foreign Language Study.

Year 3
 

Compulsory module:

• Dissertation (Double).

Optional modules vary but in the past have included:

• The Ethics of Violence in International Relations

• British Political Thought Since 1850

• Advanced Topic in International Political Theory

• Social and Political Philosophy

• Theory and Ethics of Political Violence

• Culture and Conflict in American Politics

• Muslims and Politics in the Modern World

• China in Global Political Economy

• Israel: Politics and Society

• The American Presidency

• Democratic Practise in the US Campaigns

• Parties, MPs, and Parliamentary Politics in Britain

• Political Economy of Development

• Politics of Inequality

• Origins of Political Institutions

• Suffrage Politics: from Past to Present

• Women, Gender and Politics in the US OR ONE module offered by another department OR ONE module offered by the Centre for Foreign Language Study.

A level offer – AAA including a social science or humanities subject.
 

BTEC Level 3 National Extended Diploma/OCR Cambridge Technical Extended Diploma – DDD and A levels as above.
 

IB Diploma score – 37 with 666 in higher level subjects, including a social sciences or humanities subject.
 

In addition to satisfying the University’s general entry requirements, please note:

• We welcome applications from those with other qualifications equivalent to our standard entry requirements and from mature students with non-standard qualifications or who may have had a break in their study. Please contact our Admissions Selectors.

The tuition fees shown for students are for one complete academic year of full time study and are set according to the academic year of entry. Fees for subsequent years of your course may rise in line with an inflationary uplift as determined by the government.

Of those students who graduated in 2019:

• 97% are in paid employment or further study 15 months after graduation across all our programmes

Of those in employment:

• 76% are in high skilled employment

• With an average salary of £26,000.