BA International Relations [F42L]

Academic Year 2024/2025

Campus Aberystwyth

Single Honours scheme - available from 2021/2022

Duration 4 years

Award Eligiblity
Standard Awards Excellence Scholarship;

Aberystwyth University Standard Awards

  • Entrance Scholarship / Merit Award
  • Sports Bursary
  • Music Bursary
  • International Excellence Scholarship
  • Residential Bursary
  • Aberystwyth Bursary
  • Care Leaver Bursary

Part 1 Rules

Year 1 Core (100 Credits)

Semester 1
GS01120

Information in a Post-Truth World

GS09520

How to be a Student 1

GS09720

Introduction to Social Science

Semester 2
GS09320

How to be a Student 2

GS09620

The "Othered" Migrant: Social Science Perspectives

Year 1 Options

Semester 2
GS00820

Understanding Change - Environment, People, Places

GS09820

Representing the Other: Cultures and Clashes

Year 2 Core (40 Credits)

Semester 1
IP12420

Exploring the International 1: Central Concepts and Core Skills

or
GW12420

Cyflwyniad i Wleidyddiaeth Ryngwladol 1: Cysyniadau Canolog a Sgiliau Craidd

IP12620

Behind the Headlines

or
GW12620

Y Tu ol i'r Penawdau

Year 2 Options

In addition to the core/compulsory modules, Single Honours students must take 80 credits (4 modules) of options from the list below. Students may take 1 x 20 credit module outside the Department.

Semester 1
CY11020

Ymwneud a'ch pwnc yn Gymraeg: sgiliau dwyieithog ar gyfer y brifysgol a'r gweithle

IP12820

The Making of the Modern World: War Peace and Revolution since 1789

Semester 2
IP10320

War, Strategy and Intelligence

GW12520

Globaleiddio a Datblygiad Byd-eang

IP12520

Globalization and Global Development

or
GW12520

Globaleiddio a Datblygiad Byd-eang

IP12920

Politics in the 21st Century

or
GW12920

Gwleidyddiaeth yn yr Unfed Ganrif ar Hugain

GW12920

Gwleidyddiaeth yn yr Unfed Ganrif ar Hugain

Part 2 Rules

Year 3 Core (20 Credits)

Semester 2
IP20120

International Relations: Perspectives and Debates

or
GW20120

Cysylltiadau Rhyngwladol: Safbwyntiau a Thrafodaethau

Year 3 Options

In addition to the core/compulsory module(s), Single Honours students must take 100 credits (5 modules) of optional modules from the list of those made available at pre-registration. Students may take 1 x 20 credit module outside the Department.

Semester 1
GQ20920

Y Meddwl Cymreig mewn Syniadaeth Ryngwladol

IQ23720

Politics in Diverse Societies

or
GQ23720

Gwleidyddiaeth mewn Cymdeithasau Amrywiaethol

IQ23720

Politics in Diverse Societies

or
GQ23720

Amlddiwylliannedd mewn Polisi ac Ymarfer

GQ23720

Gwleidyddiaeth mewn Cymdeithasau Amrywiaethol

IP26420

The Second World War in Europe

IQ20220

Intervention and Humanitarianism

IP23820

The European Union: Politics, Policies, Problems

GQ23920

Pobl a Grym: Deall Gwleidyddiaeth Gymharol Heddiw

GQ23720

Gwleidyddiaeth mewn Cymdeithasau Amrywiaethol

IP29220

International Politics and Global Development

IP20720

Climate Change and International Politics in the Anthropocene

IQ23920

People and Power: Understanding Comparative Politics Today

or
GQ23920

Pobl a Grym: Deall Gwleidyddiaeth Gymharol Heddiw

IQ23420

Total War, Total Peace

IQ25120

Strategy, Intelligence and Security in International Politics

IQ23920

People and Power: Understanding Comparative Politics Today

or
GQ23920

Pobl a Grym: Deall Gwleidyddiaeth Gymharol Heddiw

IQ20320

The BRICS in World Politics

IP23020

Science, Technology, and International Relations

IP21420

Climate Change Politics

IQ24920

Russian intelligence from Lenin to Putin

Semester 2
IQ25720

War Crimes

GW25020

Datganoli a Chymru

IP22320

The Governance of Climate Change: Simulation Module

IQ21620

Trade Wars and the Liberal Order

IP22220

Political Theory

IP25020

Devolution and Wales

IP25320

Warfare after Waterloo: Military History 1815-1918

IP24520

Terrorism & Counter Terrorism in the Modern World: Policing, Intelligence & War

IP26820

Questions of International Politics

IP28320

A War on the Mind: Propaganda and Secret Intelligence from the Great War to the 21st Century

IP28720

Contemporary Latin America

IP20820

Militaries and Crisis: Where Strategy Meets Society

IQ22820

Capitalism and International Politics

Final Year Core (40 Credits)

Semester 1
IP30000

Dissertation

or
GW30000

Dulliau Ymchwil + Traethawd Estynedig

Semester 2
IP30040

Dissertation

or
GW30040

Dulliau Ymchwil + Traethawd Estynedig

Final Year Options

In addition to the core modules, Single Honours students must take 80 credits (4 modules) of optional modules from those made available at pre-registration. Students may take 1 x 20 credit module outside the Department.

Semester 1
IQ33420

Total War, Total Peace

IQ30320

The BRICS in World Politics

IP31420

Climate Change Politics

IP33020

Science, Technology, and International Relations

IQ34920

Russian intelligence from Lenin to Putin

IQ33720

Politics in Diverse Societies

or
GQ33720

Gwleidyddiaeth mewn Cymdeithasau Amrywiaethol

IQ30220

Intervention and Humanitarianism

GQ33720

Gwleidyddiaeth mewn Cymdeithasau Amrywiaethol

or
IQ33720

Multiculturalism in Policy and Practice

IP33820

The European Union: Politics, Policies, Problems

GQ30920

Y Meddwl Cymreig Mewn Syniadaeth Ryngwladol

IP36420

The Second World War in Europe

GQ33720

Gwleidyddiaeth mewn Cymdeithasau Amrywiaethol

or
IQ33720

Politics in Diverse Societies

IQ33720

Politics in Diverse Societies

or
GQ33720

Amlddiwylliannedd mewn Polisi ac Ymarfer

Semester 2
GW35020

Datganoli a Chymru

IP38320

A War on the Mind: Propaganda and Secret Intelligence from the Great War to the 21st Century

IQ31620

Trade Wars and the Liberal Order

IP34520

Terrorism & Counter Terrorism in the Modern World: Policing, Intelligence & War

IP38720

Contemporary Latin America

IP32220

Political Theory

IQ32820

Capitalism and International Politics

IP35020

Devolution and Wales

IQ35720

War Crimes

IP30820

Militaries and Crisis: Where Strategy Meets Society

IP36820

Questions of International Politics

Contact for this page:

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