BA International Politics (with integrated year studying abroad) [L242]
Academic Year 2026/2027 September 2026 Start
Campus Aberystwyth
Single Honours scheme - available from 2018/2019
Last intake year is 2020/2021
Duration 4 years
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 Options
In addition to the core/compulsory modules, Single Honours students may take 80 credits (4 modules) of optional modules from the list below. Students may take 1 x 20 credit module outside the Department.
Part 2 Rules
Year 2 Core (20 Credits)
Compulsory module(s).
Year 2 Options
In addition to the core/compulsory module, Single Honours students must take 100 credits (5 modules) of optional modules from the list of those made available at pre-registration. Students may take 1 x 20 credit module outside the Department.
Y Meddwl Cymreig mewn Syniadaeth Ryngwladol
Gwleidyddiaeth mewn Cymdeithasau Amrywiaethol
Pobl a Grym: Deall Gwleidyddiaeth Gymharol Heddiw
The Governance of Climate Change: Simulation Module
Terrorism & Counter Terrorism in the Modern World: Policing, Intelligence & War
The Second World War in Europe
Questions of International Politics
China From the Opium War to the Present
Intervention and Humanitarianism
The BRICS in World Politics
Total War, Total Peace
Politics in Diverse Societies
People and Power: Understanding Comparative Politics Today
Strategy, Intelligence and Security in International Politics
Datganoli a Chymru
Russian Security in the 21st Century
Political Theory
Science, Technology, and International Relations
Devolution and Wales
Warfare after Waterloo: Military History 1815-1918
America at War: A Military History of the United States
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
The Century of the Superpowers and the Global Cold War
Final Year Core (40 Credits)
Compulsory module(s).
Final Year Options
In addition to the core modules, Single Honours students must take 80 credits (4 modules) of optional modules from those made available at pre-registration. Students may take 1 x 20 credit module outside the Department.
Y Meddwl Cymreig Mewn Syniadaeth Ryngwladol
Gwleidyddiaeth mewn Cymdeithasau Amrywiaethol
Climate Change and International Politics in the Anthropocene
Terrorism & Counter Terrorism in the Modern World: Policing, Intelligence & War
The Second World War in Europe
Questions of International Politics
Intervention and Humanitarianism
The BRICS in World Politics
Total War, Total Peace
Politics in Diverse Societies
Datganoli a Chymru
Making Sense of Secrets: Intelligence Analysis in Theory and Practice
Russian Security in the 21st Century
Political Theory
Science, Technology, and International Relations
Devolution and Wales
America At War: a Military History of the United States
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
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