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Master of Arts (Honours) International Relations and Social Anthropology


MA (Hons) International Relations (Joint Honours): First Year
Code Module name Credits
Concepts in Global Politics 20 AND
Foreign Policy and Diplomacy in Global Politics 20 AND
Remaining credits from Level 1000 options

Further requirements

Choose 120 credits in the academic year

MA (Hons) Social Anthropology (Joint Honours): First year
Code Module name Credits
Ways of Thinking 20 AND
Remaining credits from Level 1000 options

Further requirements

Choose 120 credits in the academic year

It is recommended to select SA1001 in addition to SA1002.

MA (Hons) International Relations (Joint Honours): Second Year
Code Module name Credits
* Theoretical Approaches to International Relations 20 AND
* Studying International Relations 20 AND
Remaining credits from Levels 1000 and 2000 options

Further requirements

Choose 120 credits in the academic year
Choose a minimum of 80 Level 2000 credits

Automatic entry to Honours requires

  • pass at grade 11 or better in the modules marked *
MA (Hons) Social Anthropology (Joint Honours): Second year
Code Module name Credits
* The Foundations of Social Anthropology 20 AND
* Ethnographic Encounters 20 AND
Remaining credits from Levels 1000 and 2000 options

Further requirements

Choose 120 credits in the academic year
Choose a minimum of 80 Level 2000 credits

Automatic entry to Honours requires

  • pass at grade 11 or better in the modules marked *

Entry to Honours

Students who meet the requirements specified above, and who meet all other programme requirements, will be given automatic entry into Honours programmes.

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MA Honours

The general requirements are 480 credits over a period of normally four years (and not more than five years) or part-time equivalent, of which the final two years form an approved Honours programme of 240 credits, of which 90 credits are at 4000 level and at least a further 120 credits at 3000 and/or 4000 levels.


MA (Hons) International Relations (Joint Honours): Third Year
Code Module name Credits
View list Between 30 and 60 credits from Module List : IR3000 - IR3999 AND
International Political Economy 30
IR3006 International Regimes and Organisations 30
IR3007 Democracy and Democratisation 30
International Terrorism 30
IR3011 Ethics and World Politics 30
Third World in International Development 30
IR3021 Case Studies in Conflict Analysis 30
International Relations and International Law 30
IR3023 US Foreign Policy: The Dilemmas of Power 30
IR3024 The Politics of Africa 30
International Security 30
IR3026 Diplomacy and Conflict Intervention 30
IR3029 The Logic of Irregular Warfare 30
IR3030 Human Rights in Theory and Practice 30
Globalisation and the War on Terrorism 30
Globalisation and its Disjunctures 30
IR3033 Post-Conflict Transition in Sub-Saharan Africa 30
IR3036 Independent study in International Relations - Norms in International Relations 30
IR3037 Independent study in International Relations - Political leadership 30
Conflict Management, Settlement, and Resolution 30
International Relations of the European Union 30
IR3041 International Political Theory 30
IR3042 Representations of Violent Conflict: Research Seminar 30
Approaches to Counter-Terrorism 30
Pathways of European State Formation 30
Violence in Deeply-Divided Societies 30
Foreign Policy of Modern China 30
Arrested Development? The Politics of Postcolonialism 30
IR3048 Peacekeeping and Humanitarian Intervention 30
IR3049 International History and International Relations 30
IR3050 State, Power, Crime 30
IR3051 International Relations Theory: From Fear to Queer 30
IR3052 The Politics of Violence and Resistance in Latin America 30
IR3053 Peacebuilding and Post-Conflict Transition in Latin America 30
IR3054 Mapping the Boundaries of Emerging and Evolving Securities 30
IR3055 International Relations and the Internet 30
Political Leadership: Theories and History 30
Armaments and International Relations 30
Armed Forces, Societies and Governments: An International Perspective on Civil-Military Relations 30
Rebellion and Revolution 30
IR3062 The United Nations since 1945 30
Organised Crime and Corruption 30
Critical Terrorism Studies 30
IR3065 Refugees and International Relations 30
Emotional Encounters: Diplomacy, Power and Persuasion in World Politics 30
IR3067 The International Criminal Court in World Politics 30
IR3068 Christianity and World Politics 30
IR3070 Armed Conflict in Postcolonial Africa 30
IR3071 Dealing in Darkness? An Anatomy of Realist Thought in International Relations 30
IR3072 New and emerging security threats in the Caucasus and Central Asia 30
Dilemmas of International Order: Governing Conflict and Human Rights 30
IR3074 International Relations of Energy and the Environment 30
Leader Personality and Foreign Policy 30
IR3076 Political Economy of Trade and Investment 30
IR3077 The Motives and Enablers of Terrorist Violence 30
Hot Economics, Cold Politics? International Relations of Northeast Asia 30
Feminist Theories in Global Politics 30
Russian Politics and Foreign Policy after Communism 30
IR3104 The International Relations of Post-Communist Central and Eastern Europe 30
Asian Security 30
Gender and Generation 30
Migration in Global Politics: Ethics, Politics, and Practice 30
Intelligence and International Relations in the 20th Century and Beyond 30
The Politics of Postcolonial Forests 30
Conflict in the Middle East 30
Politics and State Formation in the Middle East 30
IR3302 Democracy and Revolution in North Africa 30
The Arab - Israeli Conflict 30
The International, Modernity and Contemporary Gulf Politics 30
IR3791
Note:
- Not all modules are available in every academic year and/or semester
- Individual modules may have requisites to satisfy to be eligible to select them

For further details, see the entry for each individual module above
View list Between 0 and 30 credits from Module List: IR4100 - IR4999 (excluding IR4794 - IR4795), SD4225
IR4401 Communication in International Relations 15
Global Public Policy 30
IR4516 The International Relations of Sub-Saharan Africa 30
IR4519 Politics and Development in Southeast Asia 30
IR4522 Critical Approaches to International Security 30
The Aftermath of the Wars: Liberal Dilemmas 30
IR4530 Genocide 30
The Cultural Politics of Human Rights 30
IR4535 Theories of Friendship, Solidarity and Peace 30
IR4538 Identities, Belonging and Others 30
The Changing Character of War 30
IR4542 Gender and Terrorism 30
IR4543 Activism and Resistance 30
Wars and Peace in the Caucasus 30
IR4545 Indian Foreign Policy 30
IR4546 The Psychology of International Security 30
Force and Statecraft 30
Art and Conflict 30
IR4552 The Politics of the Environment 30
Europe, America and the Transatlantic 30
IR4554 Global Aesthetics and Politics 30
Music, Politics and International Relations 30
IR4556 Politics and Time: Memory, Narrative and Mourning in Group Identity and Conflict 30
IR4560 Faith, Politics, and War: The Augustinian Tradition in IR 30
IR4561 Security as Ethics: Rethinking the Global Polity 30
IR4562 The Political Lives of Objects 30
Rebels, Terrorists, Militias: The Comparative Analysis of Armed Groups 30
Strategic Studies 30
Contemporary Political Theory: from revolution to recognition 30
IR4566 Comparative regionalism 30
IR4567 The International Criminal Court in World Politics 30
IR4568 International Relations of Energy and the Environment 30
Geopolitics of Energy in the Caspian Region 30
Everyday Life and Global Politics 30
IR4571 Conflict and intervention in world politics 30
IR4572 Economy of Anger: Marxism, Psychoanalysis and the Politics of Status 30
IR4573 Global Economic Governance: Visions and Realities 30
Understanding Terrorism 30
Queer IR, Queering Global Politics 30
The Psychology of Motives in Foreign Policy Analysis 30
Order and Crisis in World Politics 30
The Politics of Nature and Place 30
IR4579 Race, Caste and the Making of the Modern World 30
The Global Politics of European Integration 30
Debates in Terrorism and Political Violence 30
Prison Violence & Resistance 30
IR4600 Ideologies and Social Movements in the Middle East 30
Political Order and Violence in the Middle East 30
IR4602 International Relations of the Middle East 30
Political Islam and International Relations 30
IR4606 Propaganda, Persuasion and Information War in the Middle East 30
Britain and Iraq 1914-2004 30
Green Politics: theory and practice 30
Note:
- Not all modules are available in every academic year and/or semester
- Individual modules may have requisites to satisfy to be eligible to select them

For further details, see the entry for each individual module above

Further requirements

Choose 120 credits in academic year

Access to up to thirty 4000-level credits requires the permission of the Adviser of Studies.
MA (Hons) Social Anthropology (Joint Honours): Third year
Code Module name Credits
View list 30 credits from Module List: SA3000 - SA3999 (excluding SA3901 - SA3903) AND
SA3030 Critical Thinkers and Formative Texts 30
SA3031 Anthropological Study of Language and Culture 30
SA3032 Regional Ethnography 1 30
SA3033 Anthropology of the Cold War 30
SA3049 Perception, Imagination and Communication 30
SA3053 Individuality, Community and Morality 30
SA3055 Anthropology and History 30
SA3057 Sex and Gender 30
SA3059 Colonial and Post-Colonial Representations 30
SA3060 Contemporary Issues in Social Anthropology 30
Reading Ethnography 30
Anthropology, Indigenous Peoples and Resource Extraction 30
SA3064 The Anthropology of Migration 30
SA3065 Anthropology of Economic Life 30
Sorcery and Conspiracy: The Anthropology of Alternate Realities 30
SA3067 Colonial and Postcolonial Medicine 30
SA3068 Anthropology of Global Capitalism 30
The Anthropology of Borders, Boundaries and Frontiers 30
Anthropology of Planetary Health 30
Methods in Social Anthropology 30
Note:
- Not all modules are available in every academic year and/or semester
- Individual modules may have requisites to satisfy to be eligible to select them

For further details, see the entry for each individual module above
View list 30 credits from Module List: SA3000 - SA4089, SA4400 - SA4899 (except SA3901 - SA3903, SA4794 - SA4797)
SA3030 Critical Thinkers and Formative Texts 30
SA3031 Anthropological Study of Language and Culture 30
SA3032 Regional Ethnography 1 30
SA3033 Anthropology of the Cold War 30
SA3049 Perception, Imagination and Communication 30
SA3053 Individuality, Community and Morality 30
SA3055 Anthropology and History 30
SA3057 Sex and Gender 30
SA3059 Colonial and Post-Colonial Representations 30
SA3060 Contemporary Issues in Social Anthropology 30
Reading Ethnography 30
Anthropology, Indigenous Peoples and Resource Extraction 30
SA3064 The Anthropology of Migration 30
SA3065 Anthropology of Economic Life 30
Sorcery and Conspiracy: The Anthropology of Alternate Realities 30
SA3067 Colonial and Postcolonial Medicine 30
SA3068 Anthropology of Global Capitalism 30
The Anthropology of Borders, Boundaries and Frontiers 30
Anthropology of Planetary Health 30
Methods in Social Anthropology 30
SA4005 The West Indies and the Black Atlantic 30
Visual Anthropology 30
SA4059 Living with Material Culture 30
SA4060 Anthropology of Religion and Politics 30
SA4061 Contagion: Anthropology and Global Health 30
SA4062 Anthropology of Justice 30
Anthropology of Catastrophe 30
SA4064 Anthropology of Energy 30
SA4065 The Anthropology of Art 30
SA4850 Andes 30
Anthropology, Literature and Writing 30
SA4857 West Africa 30
SA4862 Imagining the World: The Anthropology of Consciousness 30
Youth in Africa 30
SA4864 Melanesian Anthropology 30
SA4866 Anthropology and Eurasia 30
Anthropology of Politics and Governance 30
Anthropology of Latin America: Contemporary issues 30
Crisis and Rupture: Theories of social change in the contemporary world 30
Note:
- Not all modules are available in every academic year and/or semester
- Individual modules may have requisites to satisfy to be eligible to select them

For further details, see the entry for each individual module above

Further requirements

Choose 120 credits in academic year

SA3506 must be taken if the student wishes to take SA4099, SA4794 or SA4796 in Fourth Year.

MA (Hons) International Relations (Joint Honours): Fourth Year
Code Module name Credits
View list Between 30 and 60 credits from Module List: IR4000 - IR4999, ID4002, SD4225 AND
Honours Dissertation in International Relations 60
IR4401 Communication in International Relations 15
Global Public Policy 30
IR4516 The International Relations of Sub-Saharan Africa 30
IR4519 Politics and Development in Southeast Asia 30
IR4522 Critical Approaches to International Security 30
The Aftermath of the Wars: Liberal Dilemmas 30
IR4530 Genocide 30
The Cultural Politics of Human Rights 30
IR4535 Theories of Friendship, Solidarity and Peace 30
IR4538 Identities, Belonging and Others 30
The Changing Character of War 30
IR4542 Gender and Terrorism 30
IR4543 Activism and Resistance 30
Wars and Peace in the Caucasus 30
IR4545 Indian Foreign Policy 30
IR4546 The Psychology of International Security 30
Force and Statecraft 30
Art and Conflict 30
IR4552 The Politics of the Environment 30
Europe, America and the Transatlantic 30
IR4554 Global Aesthetics and Politics 30
Music, Politics and International Relations 30
IR4556 Politics and Time: Memory, Narrative and Mourning in Group Identity and Conflict 30
IR4560 Faith, Politics, and War: The Augustinian Tradition in IR 30
IR4561 Security as Ethics: Rethinking the Global Polity 30
IR4562 The Political Lives of Objects 30
Rebels, Terrorists, Militias: The Comparative Analysis of Armed Groups 30
Strategic Studies 30
Contemporary Political Theory: from revolution to recognition 30
IR4566 Comparative regionalism 30
IR4567 The International Criminal Court in World Politics 30
IR4568 International Relations of Energy and the Environment 30
Geopolitics of Energy in the Caspian Region 30
Everyday Life and Global Politics 30
IR4571 Conflict and intervention in world politics 30
IR4572 Economy of Anger: Marxism, Psychoanalysis and the Politics of Status 30
IR4573 Global Economic Governance: Visions and Realities 30
Understanding Terrorism 30
Queer IR, Queering Global Politics 30
The Psychology of Motives in Foreign Policy Analysis 30
Order and Crisis in World Politics 30
The Politics of Nature and Place 30
IR4579 Race, Caste and the Making of the Modern World 30
The Global Politics of European Integration 30
Debates in Terrorism and Political Violence 30
Prison Violence & Resistance 30
IR4600 Ideologies and Social Movements in the Middle East 30
Political Order and Violence in the Middle East 30
IR4602 International Relations of the Middle East 30
Political Islam and International Relations 30
IR4606 Propaganda, Persuasion and Information War in the Middle East 30
Britain and Iraq 1914-2004 30
Joint Dissertation (60cr) 60
ID4002 Communication and Teaching in Arts and Humanities 15
Green Politics: theory and practice 30
Note:
- Not all modules are available in every academic year and/or semester
- Individual modules may have requisites to satisfy to be eligible to select them

For further details, see the entry for each individual module above
View list Between 0 and 30 credits from Module List : IR3000 - IR3999
International Political Economy 30
IR3006 International Regimes and Organisations 30
IR3007 Democracy and Democratisation 30
International Terrorism 30
IR3011 Ethics and World Politics 30
Third World in International Development 30
IR3021 Case Studies in Conflict Analysis 30
International Relations and International Law 30
IR3023 US Foreign Policy: The Dilemmas of Power 30
IR3024 The Politics of Africa 30
International Security 30
IR3026 Diplomacy and Conflict Intervention 30
IR3029 The Logic of Irregular Warfare 30
IR3030 Human Rights in Theory and Practice 30
Globalisation and the War on Terrorism 30
Globalisation and its Disjunctures 30
IR3033 Post-Conflict Transition in Sub-Saharan Africa 30
IR3036 Independent study in International Relations - Norms in International Relations 30
IR3037 Independent study in International Relations - Political leadership 30
Conflict Management, Settlement, and Resolution 30
International Relations of the European Union 30
IR3041 International Political Theory 30
IR3042 Representations of Violent Conflict: Research Seminar 30
Approaches to Counter-Terrorism 30
Pathways of European State Formation 30
Violence in Deeply-Divided Societies 30
Foreign Policy of Modern China 30
Arrested Development? The Politics of Postcolonialism 30
IR3048 Peacekeeping and Humanitarian Intervention 30
IR3049 International History and International Relations 30
IR3050 State, Power, Crime 30
IR3051 International Relations Theory: From Fear to Queer 30
IR3052 The Politics of Violence and Resistance in Latin America 30
IR3053 Peacebuilding and Post-Conflict Transition in Latin America 30
IR3054 Mapping the Boundaries of Emerging and Evolving Securities 30
IR3055 International Relations and the Internet 30
Political Leadership: Theories and History 30
Armaments and International Relations 30
Armed Forces, Societies and Governments: An International Perspective on Civil-Military Relations 30
Rebellion and Revolution 30
IR3062 The United Nations since 1945 30
Organised Crime and Corruption 30
Critical Terrorism Studies 30
IR3065 Refugees and International Relations 30
Emotional Encounters: Diplomacy, Power and Persuasion in World Politics 30
IR3067 The International Criminal Court in World Politics 30
IR3068 Christianity and World Politics 30
IR3070 Armed Conflict in Postcolonial Africa 30
IR3071 Dealing in Darkness? An Anatomy of Realist Thought in International Relations 30
IR3072 New and emerging security threats in the Caucasus and Central Asia 30
Dilemmas of International Order: Governing Conflict and Human Rights 30
IR3074 International Relations of Energy and the Environment 30
Leader Personality and Foreign Policy 30
IR3076 Political Economy of Trade and Investment 30
IR3077 The Motives and Enablers of Terrorist Violence 30
Hot Economics, Cold Politics? International Relations of Northeast Asia 30
Feminist Theories in Global Politics 30
Russian Politics and Foreign Policy after Communism 30
IR3104 The International Relations of Post-Communist Central and Eastern Europe 30
Asian Security 30
Gender and Generation 30
Migration in Global Politics: Ethics, Politics, and Practice 30
Intelligence and International Relations in the 20th Century and Beyond 30
The Politics of Postcolonial Forests 30
Conflict in the Middle East 30
Politics and State Formation in the Middle East 30
IR3302 Democracy and Revolution in North Africa 30
The Arab - Israeli Conflict 30
The International, Modernity and Contemporary Gulf Politics 30
IR3791
Note:
- Not all modules are available in every academic year and/or semester
- Individual modules may have requisites to satisfy to be eligible to select them

For further details, see the entry for each individual module above

Further requirements

Choose 120 credits in academic year

Access to up to thirty 3000-level credits requires the permission of the Adviser of Studies.
MA (Hons) Social Anthropology (Joint Honours): Fourth year
Code Module name Credits
View list 60 credits from Module List: SA4000 - SA4299, SA4400 - SA4899, (SA4301 and ID4002)
SA4005 The West Indies and the Black Atlantic 30
Visual Anthropology 30
SA4059 Living with Material Culture 30
SA4060 Anthropology of Religion and Politics 30
SA4061 Contagion: Anthropology and Global Health 30
SA4062 Anthropology of Justice 30
Anthropology of Catastrophe 30
SA4064 Anthropology of Energy 30
SA4065 The Anthropology of Art 30
Library-based Dissertation 30
Primary Research-based Dissertation 30
SA4794 Joint Dissertation (30cr) 30
SA4795 Joint Dissertation (60cr) 60
SA4796 Joint Project (30cr) 30
SA4797 Joint Project (60cr) 60
SA4850 Andes 30
Anthropology, Literature and Writing 30
SA4857 West Africa 30
SA4862 Imagining the World: The Anthropology of Consciousness 30
Youth in Africa 30
SA4864 Melanesian Anthropology 30
SA4866 Anthropology and Eurasia 30
Anthropology of Politics and Governance 30
Anthropology of Latin America: Contemporary issues 30
Crisis and Rupture: Theories of social change in the contemporary world 30
ID4002 Communication and Teaching in Arts and Humanities 15
Note:
- Not all modules are available in every academic year and/or semester
- Individual modules may have requisites to satisfy to be eligible to select them

For further details, see the entry for each individual module above

Further requirements

Choose 120 credits in academic year

If selected SA4301 must be taken with ID4002.

Study abroad

In the case of students who spend part of the Honours programme on a recognised Study Abroad scheme, the Programme Requirements will be amended to take into account overseas courses which are approved by the relevant 91¹û¶³ÊÓƵ School in the Learning Agreement (see ).