Course Highlights

• This course highlights how countries are governed and decisions are made, what shapes foreign policies, and how national and international political events impact people locally.
• The course includes a range of modules on British, American, European, African and Middle Eastern politics
• This course provides the knowledge about the rationale, friendly & cooperative relations amongst nations & people.
• Students learn how the world is getting rapidly more connected & what impact it leaves on governments & their agencies, international organizations, multinational companies, NGOs & on them.
• This course focuses on many parameters like:
  • how nations are governed
  • important judgments are implemented
  • how foreign guidelines are shaped 
  • effect of national & global political events on local people
• The BA (hons) Politics & International Relations is a Bachelors level 3-year full time course from Coventry University, Coventry city

Course Eligibility

Academic Requirements

Class XII -  An overall score of 60% minimum in the Standard XII examination (no specific subject requirements).
 

English Language requirements

60% in Standard XII English language from certain examination boards only (Central boards, Maharashtra, West Bengal, Karnataka, Tamil Nadu, Andhra Pradesh, Kerala and Uttarakhand)
OR
IELTS 6.0 overall with no component lower than 5.5 (except where course requirements are higher) and other acceptable SELT tests such as the Pearson Test of English (PTE).

Course Fees

International fees £16,800 per year

Career Prospects

• Graduates from this course have been working at:
  • BBC
  • The House of Parliament
  • West Midlands Police/Transport Police 
  • Greenpeace
  • European Union
  • Grant Thornton
  • GlaxoSmithKline
  • IPSOS Mori
  • NHS
  • Commonwealth
  • Amnesty International
  • European Parliament 
  • BUPA Healthcare
  • Barclays 
  • BMI Healthcare
  • HSBC 
• Previous graduates have secured job opportunities in: 
  • Civil Services
  • Local Government
  • Media
  • Private Sector Companies
  • Cultural Industry
  • Higher Education Teaching
  • NGO's 
  • International Organisations 
• Few students have established themselves in businesses of youth mentoring, logistics & creative firms, and learning & development workshop delivery. 

Key Learnings

With this course you shall 

• Get the opportunity to explore & discuss ideas for sustaining opinions effectively in written & oral forms.
• Learn about interrelated disciplines like the intersecting of power, government, decision-making, dispute, harmony, foreign policy, democracy, human rights, social activities & political ideologies.
• Study these transnational issues in relevance to the inner workings of varied political systems & their external relations with the modern international systems.
• Comprehend to critically analyze database indications gathered through research.

Study Benefits

• An intellectually challenging course that motivates students to boost their analytical skills & interact with political hardships which are vital concerns in today's generation. 
• Concentrate on prominent themes,i.e, North American, European, East Asian, Middle Eastern politics, Global Security & Social Movements while pursuing this course.
• At the library, get access to typical databases of journal papers relevant to 
• Whichever degree you're studying here, students always receive assistance on campus from the Centre of Academic Writing & Sigma, which comprises statistics support & mathematics

Core Modules

Politics and International Relations are highly interconnected academic disciplines, concerned with overlapping questions of power, government, decision-making, conflict, peace, foreign policy, democracy, human rights, social movements and political ideologies. Throughout your degree, you will study these issues, both in relation to the internal workings of different political systems and their external relations in the contemporary global system. Through a rich programme of modules, you will learn about the politics and international relations of the Middle East, Africa, the Balkans, the US, Europe and China.

Your first year sets the foundation for the study of Politics and International Relations, at both country-specific and global levels.

Core Modules- Year One

• Applied politics: Politics in Action
• Themes and Concepts in International Relations 
• Introduction to Political Ideas
• World Politics since 1945
• Introduction to International Relations Theories 
• Add+vantage 

In the second year, you will study a range of topics that should deepen and widen your understanding of political systems, political ideas, international relations, conflict and security and foreign policy analysis. Focus will turn to contemporary issues and events, examining a range of real-life case studies to illustrate the challenges of government policy and the key role of civil society and non-state actors.

Core Modules - Year Two

• Contemporary Global Security 
• Foreign Policy Analysis 
• Comparative Politics and Governance
• Contemporary British Government 
• A Graduate Career
• Add+vantage 
• International Political Economy
• Humanitarian Intervention and Peacekeeping 
• The Contemporary Far Right in Western Europe 

After your second year, you have the option to take a placement year, studying abroad or on professional placement

The Talent Team can provide you with a wide range of support services in order to help you apply for a placement opportunity.

Past students have studied in Australia, the United States, South Korea, France, Sweden and the Netherlands.

• Placement Year may comprise of
  • Placement Year Module
  • Study Abroad Year Module

In your final year you will have the opportunity to specialise your knowledge, choosing from a range of optional modules on the Middle East, the US, China and Central and Eastern Europe.  You may also choose a Study Trip module and write a dissertation on a topic of your own free choice.

Final Year Modules

• Political Ideologies in the 20th Century 
• Ethics and International Relations
• Dissertation
• Add+vantage
• Politics of the Contemporary Middle East
• Nationalism and Democracy in Post-Communist Europe
• US Foreign Policy since 1945 
• US Government and Politics 
• Study Trip
• Chinese Politics, Foreign Relations, and Security