BSocSc Politics and International Relations

The BSocSc (Hons) in Politics and International Relations degree is our single honours course for politics specialists.

Politics at Manchester is structured around three core themes:

Comparative Politics;
International Politics; and
Political Theory.
This structure extends across everything we do, from undergraduate teaching to top-level research.

In your first two years studying, you will take course units from across these three core areas, as well as being able to choose options from other disciplines within the social sciences such as economics or sociology, or other areas such as history, philosophy or languages.

By your final year, you will have acquired an advanced understanding of politics which will have prepared you to study a selection of our specialised Year 3 options, which reflect the research expertise of our staff.

Our significant size allows us to support internationally recognised research across a broad range of areas within and across these themes, including several large and distinctive specialist research clusters

This also contributes to the quality of our teaching at undergraduate level; we offer you a variety of course units that builds directly on our research expertise.

We will help you to develop solid intellectual foundations within the discipline, while also giving you increasing choice and diversity of subjects and approaches as you progress through your second and third years.

You may also have the opportunity to spend Year 3 studying abroad at one of our partner universities as part of a four-year degree option.