Study Schemes
BA International Relations / Spanish [4FRL]
Academic Year: 2025/2026Joint Honours scheme - available from 2021/2022
Duration (studying Full-Time): 4 years
Award Eligibility:Standard Awards; Excellence Scholarship;
Part 1 Rules
Year 1 Core (40 Credits)
Compulsory module(s).
Year 1 Timetable Core/Student Option
SPANISH ADVANCED: you must take:
Year 1 Timetable Core/Student Option
SPANISH 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
SPANISH ADVANCED: you must take SP10610 and must also choose an additional 20 credits of the following or other Level 1 content modules:
Year 1 Options
SPANISH 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 SP or EL modules but note that you cannot take both SP20010 and SP20310:
Extended Essay Module
Brazilian / Portuguese Language II
Spanish American Cinema
Extended Essay Module
Brazilian / Portuguese Language II
The Spanish Avant-Garde
Language of Business and Current Affairs 1
Seeing Spain Through Cinema
Cuban Cinema of the Revolution: Crisis, National Identity and the Critique of Contemporary Society
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 SP or EL modules:
Department of International Politics, Aberystwyth University, Penglais, Aberystwyth, SY23 3FE Wales
Tel: Department:+44 (0)1970 621537 Admissions: +44 (0)1970 622021 Fax: 01970 622709 Email: interpol@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