Political science and IR society

Didn't you have to specifically apply for the funding with a research proposal and all? But yeah, they generally want to make sure that no one is starving to death while doing the degree, but they don't want you to get too comfortable either.

What do people think of the BAEcon?

What do you have against IR?

I applied and got into that. It is an excellent course. You can do any module from the social sciences department making it a pick and choose degree. You can do a few modules of Politics, stick in some macroeconomics and some anthropology if you fancy it. I was stuck whether to firm Manchester or Birmingham. I chose Birmingham simply because the degree structure suited me more.

That's a really interesting course. It wouldn't have suited me personally but I can think of plenty of people who'd have loved it.

And you have to be a dirty European to get the funding. Good job on getting it though.

I see. To be honest, I think I'd prefer to do straight politics (+ IR perhaps). I know I don't want to do anything else so maybe this degree won't suit me

I feel like such a twit. I thought it was a pol degree (the BAEcon!)

You can still do a full politics course, just concentrate on the politics modules. Easy. and if you want to do some IR, you can Where else you thinking of planning?

True true. I'll need to think hard about this :soc:

Where else am I considering applying to? Hmm I like Bristol, Durham, Manchester, LSE (maybe, I'd rather leave London to be honest), Warwick, Bath, too many

Shak: I'd go for the Politics and IR (in fact, when I applied, in the stone age, there was only Politics and IR at Manc, no straight Politics at all, and the standard offer was ABB), my personal statement was wholly Politics and IR all the way through, yet my first offer came from SOAS who do straight Politics, so don't worry about that at all.

All excellent universities. Don't get forget Birmingham!

Ilex: (@ the IR comment )

Oic. How hard

Hmmm. I need to give this some thought.

Well, they're mainly hard if you're doing them as a minor element (particularly ab initio to all intents and purposes), since two modules isn't really enough to get you up to speed. So unless you can take them additional to your primary degree, you may find that your language modules lower your average.

I've actually been having a PM conversation with someone asking the same question, I'll tell them to hotfoot it over here.

I know Spanish is ab initio but I have A* at GCSE and I do French and Latin A level which aren't all that dissimilar. Hmmm.

I think the Pol + Spanish degrees are 50:50 split. Not 100% sure though.

I'm now scared about how hard it'd be. I'm a bit put off now. Sigh.