About Politics and International Relations, BA - at University of Sheffield

Study international relations and politics and you'll learn how to address some of the most pressing challenges of our time. How can world leaders unite to combat climate change? Can we truly reach world peace? Will we ever achieve gender justice? You will explore these questions and many more topics in this exciting and flexible degree course.

Understand how the world works and demonstrate how it can work more effectively. This course will give you a complete overview of the study of international relations and politics and introduce you to a whole range of exciting topics.

This course will introduce you to the key areas in the international relations and politics discipline - so whether you have studied politics and international relations before or not, everyone will start with the fundamentals.

You’ll choose from a variety of optional modules, so that you can structure your degree to align with the topics that interest you the most.

As you progress through your degree, you’ll apply what you’ve learned to real life political issues and develop your own research interests and skills.

Our staff are experts in their field so no matter what topic you want to specialise in, there’ll be someone who will guide you in your research. Their current research covers topics such as: gender, Chinese politics, race, war, political ethics and the political economy, and of course, these all feed into the modules that you will be studying.

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