Politics Degrees

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Politics Degrees

• With some bias towards Exeter University

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Politics with what?

• Single Honours
  33
• Economic and Political Development 15
• Politics and Society
  12
• Economics and Politics
  16
• History and Politics
  16
• Politics and Italian
  4
• ..with European Study 2nd year decide
• Modular degrees 2nd year decide

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What is Politics?

• Who gets what when and how?
• Government
• The world and its conflicts
• Great thinkers and their ideal states
• Whatever you want it to be

• Policy Studies
• Public Administration Comparative Government
• International politics
• History of Political Thought
• Options

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Transferrable Skills?

• Political science is not journalism!
• Documentary analysis
• Assessment of argument
• Making a balanced case- memo skill
• Info tech
• Applying conceptual frameworks
• Recognising generalised phenomena
• Reasoning from past to future

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Year One

• British Government and Politics
• Intenational Politics
• Political Theory I
• Option Language, Other Social Science etc.

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Year Two

• Comparative Politics 15 credits Liberal
  Democracies, 15 credits Transformation of Eastern
  and Central Europe
• Polt Theory 2
• Public Policy and Administration
• Option 2 x 15 credit courses, one 30 credit
  course

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Year Three

• Four Options Middle East, more HPT, more
  Iternational Politics,more government, European
  issues etc.
• Dissertation plus three options
• Assessment mixture long essays and exams.

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OPTIONS

• SECOND YEAR
• Theories of IR
• Euro-integration
• Middle East
• Public policy project

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THIRD YEAR

• 19TH cent. HPT
• Contemp. Pol T
• Adv. Int P.T.
• EPD
• CJ in EU
• Gender Pol
• Mid East conflict
• US FP
• Post- Communism

• Politics and Const.
• Local Govt.
• Parliament
• SE Asia
• Canada
• France and Italy
• Germany
• US Presidency
• Parties and party syst.

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What Job?

• Media
• Civil Service
• Marketing
• Lobbying
• Party Politics
• Academic/Research
• Overseas