Undergraduate module information

These modules were available to students during the current and previous academic years. While they are representative of the choices which will be available to you during your degree, you should note that modules may change depending on the research interests of staff.

Modules in Exeter

Level 1 modules

Module Name Module Code Credits
British Government and Politics POL1001A 15
Career Planning Workshop (Level 1) POL1111 0
Employability POL1905 0
Globalization of World Politics POL1017 15
History of Political Thought 1 POL1016A 15
History of Political Thought 2 POL1016B 15
Politics in Europe POL1020 15
Power and Democracy POL1019 15
State of Britain POL1001B 15
The Challenges of World Politics in the Twenty-First Century POL1018 15

Level 2 modules

Module Name Module Code Credits
American Politics POL2047 15
Career Planning Workshop (Level 2) POL2222 0
Comparative Politics: Approaches and Concepts POL2062 15
Contemporary Theories of World Politics POL2020 15
Ethics POL2054 15
Foreign Policy: Leadership, Power and Responsibility POL2052 15
International Relations, Rethinking Third World Politics POL2037 15
International Relations, War and Peace in the Middle East POL2038 15
Introduction to Middle East Politics POL2063 15
Media, Public Opinion and Campaigns POL2049 15
Political Philosophy POL2050 15
Political Thought of Modernity POL2059 15
Public Policy and Administration POL2060 15
Security Studies POL2057 15
The Economics of Politics POL2046 15
The Political Economy of Globalization POL2064 15

Level 3 modules

Module Name Module Code Credits
Business and Politics POL3072 30
Conflict and Order in the Middle East POL3017 30
Dissertation POL3040 30
Electoral Politics POL3070 30
Electoral Politics POL3171 15
EU Institutions and Policies: Challenges and Successes POL3164 30
Globalisation and Democratic Politics:The end of the Nation State? POL3132 30
Independent Study POL3888B 15
Independent Study POL3888E 30
International Organizations: Purpose, Culture and Reform POL3165 30
Marx and Marxism POL3176 15
Marxism and Post-Structuralism POL3170 30
Policy Analysis for the Real World POL3161 15
Political Participation POL3172 15
Political Theory in Practice POL3142 30
Regional and Subregional Governance: A Practice Approach POL3143 30
The Media in Europe POL3051 30
The Political Economy of Globalization POL3066 15
The Political Economy of International Trade POL3169 30
The Politics of Climate Change POL3154 15
The Prime Minister and the President POL3167 30
Understand Democracy and Human Rights in M.east POL3042 30
War and its Aftermath: Interventions and Contemporary Conflict POL3168 30

Modules in Cornwall

Level 1 modules

Module Name Module Code Credits
British Government and Politics POC1003 15
Globalisation of World Politics I POC1007 15
Globalisation of World Politics II POC1008 15
History of Political Thought: from Ancient Greece to Early Christianity POC1005 15
History of Political Thought: from the Middle Ages to the Renaissance POC1006 15
Introduction to Environmental Politics II POC1010 15
Power and Democracy POC1011 15
State, Society and Culture POC1009 15

Level 2 modules

Module Name Module Code Credits
American Politics POC2005 15
Chinese Politics POC2017 15
Gendering World Politics POC2013 15
Introduction to Security in World Politics POC2006 15
Media, Public Opinion and Campaigns POC2010 15
Modern Political Thought: From Hobbes to Wollstonecraft POC2007 15
Modern Political Thought: From Kant to Marx POC2008 15
National and Community Identity POC2018 15
Sustainability and Policy POC2016 15
The Ethics and Politics of Humanitarian Intervention POC2012 15

Level 3 modules

Module Name Module Code Credits
Creating Order out of Chaos POC3012 30
Development: Policy and Practice POC3015 30
Dissertation POC3040 30
Gender, Militarization and Resistance POC3007 30
Global Environmental Politics POC3011 30
Political Psychology of Elites and Masses POC3038 30
Political Theory POC3013 30