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BA (Hons) Politics

University of Portsmouth ( Navitas ), United Kingdom
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Course Overview

To give you the best chance of securing a great job when you graduate, our Careers and Employability service can help you plan your career and find relevant work experience during your course. We can help you identify placements, internships, voluntary roles, and freelancing opportunities that will complement your studies. You can earn credits towards your degree for the placements you take during your studies. Previous students have done projects for community groups and worked with political parties and local government. We'll also be available to help, advise and support you for up to 5 years as you advance in your career.

General Eligibility

Typical offers

  • A level – ABB–BBC

  • UCAS points – 112-128 points to include a minimum of 2 A levels, or equivalent

  • T levels – Merit

  • BTECs (Extended Diplomas) – DDM–DMM

  • International Baccalaureate – 25

Part Time Work Details

20 hours of work permit weekly for international students.

What You'll Study

1 Year 1

  • Analysing Politics: Britain and Beyond

  • Global Development

  • Key Themes in International Relations

  • Political Thought

  • Professional Practice: Skills for Academic and Professional Success

2 Year 2

Core modules this year include:

  • Bending the Truth a Little? Researching Politics and International Relations

  • Comparative European Politics

Optional modules in this year include:

  • Autocracy and Democracy

  • British Political Leadership

  • Campaigning in Action

  • Comparative European Politics

  • Economics and Politics of Development

  • Empire and Its Afterlives in Britain, Europe, and Africa

  • Engaged Citizenship in Humanities and Social Sciences

  • Global Security

  • Ideology and Politics

  • Intercultural Perspectives on Communication

  • Introduction to Teaching

  • Marketing and Communication

  • Modern Foreign Language (Institution-wide Language Programme)

  • Modernity and Globalisation

  • Nationalism and Migration: Chaos, Crisis and the Everyday

  • News, Discourse and Media

  • Principles of Economic Crime Investigation

  • Professional Experience

3 Year 3

Core modules this year include:

  • Dissertation / Major Project

  • Post Brexit Politics

Optional modules in this year include:

  • Digital Media and Democracy

  • Global Capitalism: Past, Present and Future

  • Independent Project (Politics)

  • Looking for Utopia, Finding Dystopia? Ideas and Ideologies in the New Millennium

  • NGOs and Social Movements

  • Politics and Culture of the Hispanic World in 20th-Century Literature And Film

  • Professional Development: Recruiters and Candidates

  • Professional Experience

  • Religion and Politics in Global Perspective

  • The European Union: A Global Power in the Making?

Language Requirement

  • IELTS6.0
  • TOEFL78
  • PTE58
  • Duolingo79

English Language proficiency at a minimum of IELTS band 6.5 with no component score below 6.0.

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