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Modules

Year 1

Our first-year core modules are designed as an introduction. This means that we will build everyone's knowledge to the same level, so you can progress through to year two.

You will take 120 credits of modules split as follows:

• Compulsory core modules (120 credits) – you will typically take modules in international relations, political theory, and comparative politics, as well as American history and culture. You will learn to compare political institutions and behaviour in Western liberal democracies, gaining a thorough understanding of the history of political ideas

You must pass year one, but it does not count towards your final degree classification.

Politics core modules

• Introduction to Comparative Politics
• Problems in Global Politics
• Introduction to Political Theory

American Studies core modules

• Race, Power, Money and the Making of North America, 1607-1900
• Approaches to American Culture 1: An Introduction
• Approaches to Contemporary American Culture 2: Developing Themes and Perspectives
• American Freedom? Empire, Rights and Capitalism in Modern US History, 1900-Present

Year 2

You will take 120 credits of modules split as follows:

• Compulsory core modules (40 credits) – in Politics you will choose one core module. In American studies, you will choose between Key Texts in American Social and Political Thought or North American Regions
• Optional modules (80 credits) – choose from a range of optional modules to begin tailoring your degree to your interests and career aspirations

You must pass year two, which counts 33% towards your final degree classification.

American Studies core modules

Choose one of the below:

• Key Texts in American Social and Political Thought
• North American Regions
• Politics optional modules
• Democracy and its Critics
• Politics and Public Policy in China
• How Voters Decide
• International Politics in the 20th Century
• British Party Politics
• Crises and Controversies in European Politics
• Global Security
• International Political Economy and Global Development
• Social and Global Justice
• Political Parties and Party Systems Around the Globe

American Studies optional modules

• Immigration and Ethnicity in the United States
• The American Pop Century
• American Radicalism
• The US & the World in the American Century: US Foreign Policy, 1898-2008
• Contemporary North American Fiction
• America's Borders: Culture at the Limits
• American Violence: A History
• African American History and Culture
• Business in American Culture

Year 3

You will take 120 credits of modules split as follows:

• Compulsory core modules (minimum of 20 and maximum of 40 credits) – you will undertake a dissertation on a topic of your choice in Politics or American Studies
• Optional modules (minimum of 80 and a maximum of 100 credits) – a range of options are available covering aspects of North American history, culture and global politics

You must pass year four, which counts 67% towards your final degree classification.

Core modules
Choose one of the below:

• Dissertation in Politics and International Relations
• Dissertation in American and Canadian Studies

Politics optional modules

• China in Global Politics
• Disasters, Politics and Society
• The EU as a Global Power
• From Dictatorship to Democracy and Back?
• Gender and Political Representation
• Ideas and Politics in Contemporary Britain
• The International Politics of Human Rights
• Middle East and the World
• Political Challenges and Multiple Crises in the Global Economy
• Democratic Backsliding in Central and Eastern Europe
• The Politics of Ethnic Conflict
• Politics Placement
• Populism, Elites and Democracy
• Responding to Violent Extremism
• Russia and Great Power Politics: From Lenin to Putin
• Secret Intelligence and International Security
• Special Relationship? Anglo-American Security Relations
• The War in Iraq

American Studies optional modules

• Prohibition America
• US Foreign Policy, 1989 - present
• Popular Music Cultures and Countercultures
• History of the Civil Rights Movement
• Ethnic and New Immigrant Writing
• North American Film Adaptations
• Varieties of Classic American Film, Television and Literature since 1950
• Recent Queer Writing
• American Madness: Mental Illness in History and Culture
• Sexuality in American History
• The Special Relationship, Spit and Slavery- Britain and the US 1776-1877
• Troubled Empire: The Projection of American Global Power from Pearl Harbor to Covid-19