First Year Pathway in Humanities and Education - Continue to Bachelor of Arts (Honours) - Politics

The education courses take a progressive approach and will teach students transferable skills, relevant across early years, primary teaching and beyond. Education goes beyond the classroom, and students will discover the social issues that impact on children’s and young people’s learning. Choose a humanities course to learn more about how history has shaped modern times; explore politics, social issues and public services; or tackle the philosophical questions that have captivated humanity for millenia. On this course students will study the practical and theoretical aspects of modern politics and international relations, and thereby gain insights into the past, present and future on both a local and global scale. Students will examine relevant political debates from a historical, philosophical and sociological perspective. In doing so, the course goes beyond the ‘high politics’ of traditional theories and the workings of parliaments. Instead, students will be able to develop their own specialisms in areas such as global diplomacy, international relations, and international issues like climate change; protest movements like Black Lives Matter; the devolution of power away from central government; the politics of the new media; the politics of gender, and the place of race in modern society. The specialist modules such as Race, Racism and Cultural Identity, Wrestling with Trump: the WWE and Modern Political Culture, and Politics and Social Media will allow students to engage with contemporary issues, developing a deeper understanding of modern politics.