BA French / International Politics [LRF1]
Academic Year 2024/2025 September 2024 Start
Campus Aberystwyth
Joint Honours scheme - available from 2000/2001
Last intake year is 2020/2021
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 (40 Credits)
Compulsory module(s).
Year 1 Timetable Core/Student Option
Year 1 Timetable Core/Student Option
FRENCH BEGINNERS: you must take:
Year 1 Options
All students must take 20 credits (1 module) of optional modules in International Politics.
The Making of the Modern World: War Peace and Revolution since 1789
Year 1 Options
FRENCH ADVANCED: you must choose an additional 20 credits of the following or other Level 1 content modules:
Year 1 Options
Part 2 Rules
Year 2 Core (30 Credits)
Year 2 Core (20 Credits)
Compulsory module(s).
Year 2 Options
Choose 30 credits of the following FR or EL modules:
Year 2 Options
Students must take 40 credits (2 modules) of International Politics optional modules from the list of those made available at pre-registration.
Y Meddwl Cymreig mewn Syniadaeth Ryngwladol
Gwleidyddiaeth mewn Cymdeithasau Amrywiaethol
Pobl a Grym: Deall Gwleidyddiaeth Gymharol Heddiw
Climate Change and International Politics in the Anthropocene
Climate Change Politics
Science, Technology, and International Relations
The European Union: Politics, Policies, Problems
The Second World War in Europe
International Politics and Global Development
Intervention and Humanitarianism
The BRICS in World Politics
Total War, Total Peace
Politics in Diverse Societies
People and Power: Understanding Comparative Politics Today
Russian intelligence from Lenin to Putin
Strategy, Intelligence and Security in International Politics
Datganoli a Chymru
Militaries and Crisis: Where Strategy Meets Society
Political Theory
The Governance of Climate Change: Simulation Module
Terrorism & Counter Terrorism in the Modern World: Policing, Intelligence & War
Devolution and Wales
Warfare after Waterloo: Military History 1815-1918
Questions of International Politics
A War on the Mind: Propaganda and Secret Intelligence from the Great War to the 21st Century
Contemporary Latin America
Trade Wars and the Liberal Order
Capitalism and International Politics
War Crimes
Year 3 Core ( Credits)
The third year is a compulsory abroad as a student at a French speaking University. See Exchange Co-ordinator in International Politics for further details. Students are not required to write a Dissertation for European Languages.
Year 3 Core (60 Credits)
Final Year Core (30 Credits)
Final Year Options
Final year students must take 60 credits in the Department of International Politics.
Y Meddwl Cymreig Mewn Syniadaeth Ryngwladol
Gwleidyddiaeth mewn Cymdeithasau Amrywiaethol
Dulliau Ymchwil + Traethawd Estynedig
Dissertation
Climate Change Politics
Science, Technology, and International Relations
The European Union: Politics, Policies, Problems
The Second World War in Europe
Intervention and Humanitarianism
The BRICS in World Politics
Total War, Total Peace
Politics in Diverse Societies
Russian intelligence from Lenin to Putin
Dulliau Ymchwil + Traethawd Estynedig
Datganoli a Chymru
Dissertation
Militaries and Crisis: Where Strategy Meets Society
Political Theory
Terrorism & Counter Terrorism in the Modern World: Policing, Intelligence & War
Devolution and Wales
Questions of International Politics
A War on the Mind: Propaganda and Secret Intelligence from the Great War to the 21st Century
Contemporary Latin America
Trade Wars and the Liberal Order
Capitalism and International Politics
War Crimes
Final Year Options
Choose 30 credits of the following FR or EL modules:
Dissertation
Extended Essay Module
Brazilian / Portuguese Language III
The Language of Business and Current Affairs
Self-writing, 18th-21st Centuries
History, Film and Memory: Representing World Wars in French cinema
"...ISMES" Cultural and Artistic Movements in 20th c. France
International Politics,Aberystwyth University, International Politics Building, Penglais, Aberystwyth, SY23 3FE
Telephone Department: +44 01970 622708 Admissions: +44 (0)1970 622021
Email: interpol@aber.ac.uk