Best modules to take for durham university politics

Hiya! Ive been asked to choose my optional modules for BA politics 1st year at Durham.

I was wondering what are the best optional modules to go for? Could anyone reccomend any from the 3 we have to choose from IR?

As well as any others from other departments that go well or are easy and managble to do alongside!

Anyone have any experience with doing a beginners language module and how much work that was alongside your undergrad degree?

Thanks!!!

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Anonymous #1

former durham comspci here. make sure to take something useful. don't take stuff like the harry potter module or the business venture one. why not try a language? Most of the optional modules from your department you can probably learn by yourself later on. i don't have any experience doing a language module in durham, but i've seen the stuff that they do in the chinese language module, and it seemed really good.

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Anonymous #2

I did Global Regions and Introduction to IR. International Security was popularly regarded as hard, but I didn't do it so I cannot say if it was. GR and Intro to IR were broad surveys of IR as a topic - GR looking at different world regions and their institutions and Intro to IR looking at different theories and core concepts in IR.

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Anonymous #3

Do you have a preferance over the 2 modules you did?

Original post by Anonymous

Do you have a preference over the 2 modules you did? 😊

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Anonymous #2

Original post by Anonymous

Do you have a preferance over the 2 modules you did?

Do you have a preference over the 2 modules you did? 😊

I much preferred Global Regions - it was a more practical, empirical look at world regions and their institutions than Introduction to IR, which was largely theoretical.