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Master of Arts (Honours) International Relations and Mathematics

MA (Hons) International Relations (Joint Honours): First Year IRLIRLJJ1_2223
	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) Mathematics (Joint Honours): First year MTHMTHJJ1A_2223
	Code	Module name	Credits
		Mathematics	20	AND
	Remaining credits from Level 1000 options
Further requirements Choose 120 credits in the academic year Students without the prerequisite for MT1002 will take MT1001 in Semester 1.

MA (Hons) International Relations (Joint Honours): Second Year IRLIRLJJ2_2223
	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

MA (Hons) Mathematics (Joint Honours): Second year MTHMTHJJ2A_2223
	Code	Module name	Credits
		Linear Mathematics	15	AND
	Hide list View list	45 credits from Module List: MT2502 - MT2508
		Analysis	15
		Multivariate Calculus	15
		Combinatorics and Probability	15
		Abstract Algebra	15
		Vector Calculus	15
		Mathematical Modelling	15
		Statistical Inference	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 the academic year Choose a minimum of 80 Level 2000 credits Additional Information from the School For guidance on module choice at 2000-level in Mathematics and Statistics please consult the School Handbook, at /mathematics-statistics/students/ug/module-choices-2000 Automatic Entry to Honours Average of the best four grades from range MT2501 - MT2508 being 11 or higher.

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 IRLIRLJJ3_2223
	Code	Module name	Credits
	Hide list View list	Between 30 and 60 credits from Module List : IR3000 - IR3999		AND
		International Political Economy	30
		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
		Case Studies in Conflict Analysis	30
		International Relations and International Law	30
		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
		International Political Theory	30
	IR3042	Representations of Violent Conflict: Research Seminar	30
		Approaches to Counter-Terrorism	30
	IR3044	Pathways of European State Formation	30
		Violence in Deeply-Divided Societies	30
		Foreign Policy of Modern China	30
	IR3047	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
		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
	IR3064	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
		Christianity and World Politics	30
		Armed Conflict in Africa	30
		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
		International Institutions and Global Challenges	30
	IR3074	International Relations of Energy and the Environment	30
	IR3075	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
	IR3079	Feminist Theories in Global Politics	30
		The Northern Ireland Conflict	30
		Russian Politics and Foreign Policy after Communism	30
	IR3104	The International Relations of Post-Communist Central and Eastern Europe	30
	IR3111	Asian Security	30
	IR3113	Gender and Generation	30
		Migration in Global Politics: Ethics, Politics, and Practice	30
	IR3205	Intelligence and International Relations in the 20th Century and Beyond	30
		The Politics of Postcolonial Forests	30
		Conflict in the Middle East	30
	IR3301	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
		Cyber Security and the Global Politics of the Internet	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
	Hide list View list	Between 0 and 30 credits from Module List: IR4100 - IR4999 (excluding IR4794 - IR4795), SD4225
	IR4401	Communication in International Relations	15
		The Language of Politics	30
	IR4514	Global Public Policy	30
	IR4516	The International Relations of Sub-Saharan Africa	30
		Politics and Development in Southeast Asia	30
	IR4522	Critical Approaches to International Security	30
	IR4523	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
	IR4540	The Changing Character of War	30
		Gender and Terrorism	30
	IR4543	Activism and Resistance	30
		Wars and Peace in the Caucasus	30
		Indian Foreign Policy	30
	IR4546	The Psychology of International Security	30
		Force and Statecraft	30
	IR4550	Art and Conflict	30
	IR4552	The Politics of the Environment	30
		Europe, America and the Transatlantic	30
	IR4554	Global Aesthetics and Politics	30
	IR4555	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
		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
	IR4570	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
	IR4575	Queer IR, Queering Global Politics	30
	IR4576	The Psychology of Motives in Foreign Policy Analysis	30
		Order and Crisis in World Politics	30
		The Politics of Nature and Place	30
		Race, Caste and the Making of the Modern World	30
	IR4580	The Global Politics of European Integration	30
		Debates in Terrorism and Political Violence	30
	IR4582	Prison Violence & Resistance	30
		The International Relations of Outer Space	30
		Speculative Fiction and Global Politics	30
		Politics of Secession	30
	IR4600	Ideologies and Social Movements in the Middle East	30
	IR4601	Political Order and Violence in the Middle East	30
	IR4602	International Relations of the Middle East	30
	IR4604	Political Islam and International Relations	30
	IR4606	Propaganda, Persuasion and Information War in the Middle East	30
	IR4607	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) Mathematics (Joint Honours): Third year MTHMTHJJ3A_2223
	Code	Module name	Credits
	Hide list View list	Between 0 and 45 credits from Module List: MT3501 - MT3508		AND
		Linear Mathematics 2	15
		Real Analysis	15
		Complex Analysis	15
		Differential Equations	15
		Algebra: Rings and Fields	15
		Techniques of Applied Mathematics	15
		Mathematical Statistics	15
		Applied Statistics	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
	Hide list View list	Between 0 and 60 credits from Module List: MT3000 - MT4999
		Linear Mathematics 2	15
		Real Analysis	15
		Complex Analysis	15
		Differential Equations	15
		Algebra: Rings and Fields	15
		Techniques of Applied Mathematics	15
		Mathematical Statistics	15
		Applied Statistics	15
		Introduction to Mathematical Computing	15
		Numerical Analysis	15
		Groups	15
		Real and Abstract Analysis	15
		Linear and Nonlinear Waves	15
	MT4112	Computing in Mathematics	15
		Computing in Statistics	15
	MT4501	Topics in the History of Mathematics	15
		Classical Mechanics	15
	MT4508	Dynamical Systems	15
		Fluid Dynamics	15
		Solar Theory	15
		Asymptotic Methods	15
		Automata, Languages and Complexity	15
	MT4513	Fractal Geometry	15
		Graph Theory	15
		Functional Analysis	15
	MT4516	Finite Mathematics	15
	MT4519	Number Theory	15
	MT4526	Topology	15
		Time Series Analysis	15
	MT4528	Markov Chains and Processes	15
	MT4530	Population Genetics	15
		Bayesian Inference	15
	MT4537	Spatial Statistics	15
		Quantitative Risk Management	15
	MT4551	Financial Mathematics	15
		Population Dynamics Models in Mathematical Biology	15
		Theory of Electric and Magnetic Fields	15
		Enterprise Project in Mathematics / Statistics	15
	MT4606	Classical Statistical Inference	15
		Sampling Theory	15
		Design of Experiments	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 Third and Fourth Year Programme Requirements 45 credits in three of: MT3501 - MT3508; 15 Credits: MT4599 or other approved Joint Honours project; 60 Further Credits: MT3000 - MT4999; With permission of the Adviser of Studies 15 credits may be substituted by ID4001 or a suitable VP coded module.

MA (Hons) International Relations (Joint Honours): Fourth Year IRLIRLJJ4_2223
	Code	Module name	Credits
	Hide list 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
		The Language of Politics	30
	IR4514	Global Public Policy	30
	IR4516	The International Relations of Sub-Saharan Africa	30
		Politics and Development in Southeast Asia	30
	IR4522	Critical Approaches to International Security	30
	IR4523	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
	IR4540	The Changing Character of War	30
		Gender and Terrorism	30
	IR4543	Activism and Resistance	30
		Wars and Peace in the Caucasus	30
		Indian Foreign Policy	30
	IR4546	The Psychology of International Security	30
		Force and Statecraft	30
	IR4550	Art and Conflict	30
	IR4552	The Politics of the Environment	30
		Europe, America and the Transatlantic	30
	IR4554	Global Aesthetics and Politics	30
	IR4555	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
		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
	IR4570	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
	IR4575	Queer IR, Queering Global Politics	30
	IR4576	The Psychology of Motives in Foreign Policy Analysis	30
		Order and Crisis in World Politics	30
		The Politics of Nature and Place	30
		Race, Caste and the Making of the Modern World	30
	IR4580	The Global Politics of European Integration	30
		Debates in Terrorism and Political Violence	30
	IR4582	Prison Violence & Resistance	30
		The International Relations of Outer Space	30
		Speculative Fiction and Global Politics	30
		Politics of Secession	30
	IR4600	Ideologies and Social Movements in the Middle East	30
	IR4601	Political Order and Violence in the Middle East	30
	IR4602	International Relations of the Middle East	30
	IR4604	Political Islam and International Relations	30
	IR4606	Propaganda, Persuasion and Information War in the Middle East	30
	IR4607	Britain and Iraq 1914-2004	30
	IR4795	Joint Dissertation (60cr)	60
		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
	Hide list View list	Between 0 and 30 credits from Module List : IR3000 - IR3999
		International Political Economy	30
		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
		Case Studies in Conflict Analysis	30
		International Relations and International Law	30
		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
		International Political Theory	30
	IR3042	Representations of Violent Conflict: Research Seminar	30
		Approaches to Counter-Terrorism	30
	IR3044	Pathways of European State Formation	30
		Violence in Deeply-Divided Societies	30
		Foreign Policy of Modern China	30
	IR3047	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
		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
	IR3064	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
		Christianity and World Politics	30
		Armed Conflict in Africa	30
		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
		International Institutions and Global Challenges	30
	IR3074	International Relations of Energy and the Environment	30
	IR3075	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
	IR3079	Feminist Theories in Global Politics	30
		The Northern Ireland Conflict	30
		Russian Politics and Foreign Policy after Communism	30
	IR3104	The International Relations of Post-Communist Central and Eastern Europe	30
	IR3111	Asian Security	30
	IR3113	Gender and Generation	30
		Migration in Global Politics: Ethics, Politics, and Practice	30
	IR3205	Intelligence and International Relations in the 20th Century and Beyond	30
		The Politics of Postcolonial Forests	30
		Conflict in the Middle East	30
	IR3301	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
		Cyber Security and the Global Politics of the Internet	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) Mathematics (Joint Honours): Fourth year MTHMTHJJ4A_2223
	Code	Module name	Credits
	Hide list View list	Between 0 and 45 credits from Module List: MT3501 - MT3508		AND
		Linear Mathematics 2	15
		Real Analysis	15
		Complex Analysis	15
		Differential Equations	15
		Algebra: Rings and Fields	15
		Techniques of Applied Mathematics	15
		Mathematical Statistics	15
		Applied Statistics	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
		Project in Mathematics / Statistics	15	AND
	Hide list View list	Between 0 and 60 credits from Module List: MT3000 - MT4999 (excluding MT4599)
		Linear Mathematics 2	15
		Real Analysis	15
		Complex Analysis	15
		Differential Equations	15
		Algebra: Rings and Fields	15
		Techniques of Applied Mathematics	15
		Mathematical Statistics	15
		Applied Statistics	15
		Introduction to Mathematical Computing	15
		Numerical Analysis	15
		Groups	15
		Real and Abstract Analysis	15
		Linear and Nonlinear Waves	15
	MT4112	Computing in Mathematics	15
		Computing in Statistics	15
	MT4501	Topics in the History of Mathematics	15
		Classical Mechanics	15
	MT4508	Dynamical Systems	15
		Fluid Dynamics	15
		Solar Theory	15
		Asymptotic Methods	15
		Automata, Languages and Complexity	15
	MT4513	Fractal Geometry	15
		Graph Theory	15
		Functional Analysis	15
	MT4516	Finite Mathematics	15
	MT4519	Number Theory	15
	MT4526	Topology	15
		Time Series Analysis	15
	MT4528	Markov Chains and Processes	15
	MT4530	Population Genetics	15
		Bayesian Inference	15
	MT4537	Spatial Statistics	15
		Quantitative Risk Management	15
	MT4551	Financial Mathematics	15
		Population Dynamics Models in Mathematical Biology	15
		Theory of Electric and Magnetic Fields	15
		Enterprise Project in Mathematics / Statistics	15
	MT4606	Classical Statistical Inference	15
		Sampling Theory	15
		Design of Experiments	15
		Joint Dissertation (30cr)	30
		Joint Project (30cr)	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 Third and Fourth Year Programme Requirements: 45 credits in three of: MT3501 - MT3508; 15 Credits: MT4599 or other approved Joint Honours project; 60 Further Credits: MT3000 - MT4999; With permission of the Adviser of Studies 15 credits may be substituted by ID4001 or a suitable VP coded module.;

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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 91果冻视频 School in the Learning Agreement (see ).

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