Aber for politics not IR?

Almost everything I see on aber is about its IR (international politics) course. Whats the university like for just standard politics?

Thanks

Reply 1

Æbbie

I haven't met anyone here studying politics... *shrug*

Reply 2

Phikli

It's exactly the same department and because of the modular degree structure, you'll be picking from the same group of modules as IR specialists but will have a different core module.

In the first year, pretty much everyone in the department does the same 6 modules (for the past 3 years it's been Intro to International Politics, Intro to the Third World in IP, Revolution & Continuity in Political Philosophy, European Politics and War, Strategy and Intelligence). You can opt out of certain modules but they're good for getting an all round grounding.

In years 2 and 3 you have pretty much free reign over which modules you do, so long as you do your core module (which for the straight politics degree is I believe 'Political Theory'). You'll find there are a few courses on domestic politics and non-IR theoretical politics but most of the department's focus is international. I love IR and dislike learning about the nitty gritty of domestic politics so it suits me fine but if you love electoral systems etc it might not be the best place.

Here's a list of the modules that ran this year for years 2 &3 students for you to check out:
IP30220 - Terrorism, Culture and Identity
IP30420 - International Politics and the Nuclear Age
IP31820 - Russian Security in the 21st Century
IP32820 - Nation and Identity: the Politics of Language Revival
IP33420 - Understanding Terror
IP33820 - European Politics
IP35320 - Warfare After Waterloo: Military History 1815 - 1918
IP36020 - The Past and Present of Us Intelligence
IP36320 - Contemporary Security: Theories and Threats
IP37220 - Global Environmental Politics: Sustainability, Security and Social Movements
IP37320 - Communist and Post-communist Politics
IP38220 - The Evolution of American Foreign Policy
IP38720 - Contemporary Latin America
IP38920 - Britain and Nuclear Weapons
IP39320 - Arguments for Peace
IP39520 - Islam, Foreign Policy and the Developing World

Part 2 Semester 2

IP30120 - International Political Theory Today
IP31420 - Twenty-first Century Warfare
IP31720 - Democratisation and Social Capital in Post-communist Europe
IP32220 - Political Theory
IP32720 - Remembering World War Two
IP33320 - Nato: the Making and Breaking of Alliances
IP33520 - Power, Conflict and Development in Africa
IP35020 - Wales and Devolution
IP35720 - De Gaulle's France (1919 - 1970)
IP35820 - Global Justice: Theorizing and Realizing Duties to Distant Strangers
IP35920 - The Germanies and the World: the Foreign Relations of the Two German States, 1949-present
IP36720 - Gender, Conflict and Security
IP36820 - Questions of International Politics
IP37620 - People, Progress, Environment: Theories and Histories of Environmental Politics
IP38120 - The American Century: America in the World Since 1914
IP39220 - The Third World in International Politics
IP39420 - Elections in the United Kingdom

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