Program Overview

Across the world, established political dynamics are being challenged. Our BSc Politics degree focuses on the role that citizens can play in shaping politics locally, nationally and internationally. You’ll study power, identity, conflict and society, as well as the systems and organisations that govern the world, and the political movements seeking to reshape them. You’ll graduate with a wide range of transferable skills that are highly sought after by employers.

• Politics is about people and power: who gets it, how they use it and what makes a society fair.
• Our course will introduce you to the most important public policy questions in the UK, around Europe, and the world, and explore how those who make decisions impact on others.
• Along the way you’ll be able to address the social and political issues behind the biggest debates in contemporary politics.
• You’ll have the option to take one of our award-winning Professional Training placements that will prepare you for work in industry.

On our BSc (Hons) Politics course, you’ll get a full grounding in the discipline as a whole. You’ll examine questions of national and international significance, develop an understanding of the concepts, approaches and methods in political science, and explore the way power is exercised and distributed, and how decisions in politics are made.

We’ll show you how decisions are made – from government institutions to civil society – so you can learn how political views are shaped and changed.

Our degree has Bachelor of Science status, in recognition of its technical analytical components that are highly valued by an increasingly diverse range of employers in the knowledge economy. You will develop transferable qualitative and quantitative research skills, and learn how to design and carry out research projects using market-leading data analysis software.

You will have the opportunity to develop and apply primary research skills on a topic of your choice, if you choose to write a dissertation in your final year.