Study Schemes
BA German / International Politics [RL22]
Academic Year: 2024/2025Joint Honours scheme - available from 2019/2020 (Last intake year is 2020/2021)
Duration (studying Full-Time): 4 years
Part 1 Rules
Year 1 Core (40 Credits)
Compulsory module(s).
Year 1 Timetable Core/Student Option
GERMAN ADVANCED: you must take:
Year 1 Timetable Core/Student Option
GERMAN 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
GERMAN ADVANCED: you must take GE10810 and must also choose an additional 20 credits of the following or other Level 1 content modules:
Year 1 Options
GERMAN BEGINNERS: you must choose 20 credits of the following or other Level 1 content modules:
Part 2 Rules
Year 2 Core (30 Credits)
Compulsory module(s).
Year 2 Core (20 Credits)
Compulsory module(s).
Year 2 Options
Choose 30 credits of the following GE 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)
Compulsory module(s).
Year 3 Core (60 Credits)
Compulsory module(s).
Final Year Core (30 Credits)
Compulsory module(s).
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 GE or EL modules:
Department of Modern Languages, Aberystwyth University, Hugh Owen Building, Penglais, Aberystwyth, Ceredigion, SY23 3DY
Tel: Department: +44 (0)1970 621537 Admissions: +44 (0)1970 622021 Fax: 01970 622553 Email: modernlangs@aber.ac.uk
Aberystwyth University Standard Awards
- Entrance Scholarship / Merit Award
- Sports Bursary
- Music Bursary
- International Excellence Scholarship
- Residential Bursary
- Aberystwyth Bursary
- Care Leaver Bursary