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International Relations at Anglia Ruskin University - UCAS

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2024 - 2025
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Course summary

Discover how international relations theory affects real-world events, and develop crucial skills like decision making and debating. With prestigious guest lecturers and visits to think tanks such as Chatham House, you’ll gain all the experience you need for a role in global politics.

  • Attend prestigious guest lecturers and visits to think tanks such as Chatham House
  • Focus on your own areas of interest with optional modules including global risk society, war reporting, and terrorism
  • Develop your decision making, planning and debating with interactive sessions, specific scenarios and briefs
This course will give you an understanding of how international relations theory is applied to real-world policy and strategy, and the practical problems involved in this. You’ll examine the theory and definition of the ‘state’ and relations between different states, and the roles of other institutions and organisations, like multinational companies and transnational crime organisations. All your studies will contain a strong vocational element, with a focus on how theory affects, and is affected, by real events on the ground. As well as this foundation in general international relations theory and practice, you’ll also have the chance to focus on your own areas of interest. Our optional modules will let you choose from subjects like the global risk society, policing and security, corruption and cross-border crime, war reporting, and terrorism. To develop your decision-making, planning and debating skills, you’ll take part in interactive sessions, respond to specific scenarios and briefs, and undertake critical analysis. You’ll also receive advanced instruction in research methods, a vital skill both for your studies and your future career. With a supporting team of lecturers who have academic and professional backgrounds in international relations, you can be sure you’re receiving the latest theory and careers advice. Teaching times 2023-24 (subject to change for 2024-5): Three contact hours a week per module, with a total of six hours direct contact per week. Careers Our course will prepare you for a career in many roles relating to international relations, such as diplomacy and the diplomatic services, strategy and strategic planning, public services, the Foreign Office, the UN and other international bodies, local government, NGOs, charities, education, journalism and press agencies.

Modules

Core modules: International Relations Theory in Context; Global Governance; Major Project for Masters Stage. Optional modules: War, Peacekeeping and Military Intervention; Policing Transnational Crime; A History of Race, Racism and Resistance in Modern Britain; Nationalisms, Diasporas and Identities; Communication and Conflict; Terror as Crime; Going Global: Making the Modern World, 1979-1999; Postgraduate Research Methods; Globalization, Social Welfare and Social Policy.

Assessment method

You’ll demonstrate your progress through a combination of role-play scenarios, briefs, written reports, poster presentations, group projects, dissertation, longer essays, case studies, research proposal, short analyses of global events, short review papers, practical data gathering exercises, and short abstracts of core course readings.

Entry requirements

A good honours degree (or equivalent), normally in a related subject. Applicants with professional experience are also encouraged to apply. If English is not your first language you will be expected to demonstrate a certificated level of proficiency of at least IELTS 6.5 ( Academic level) or equivalent English Language qualification, as recognised by Anglia Ruskin University.

Fees and funding

Tuition fees

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Tuition fee status depends on a number of criteria and varies according to where in the UK you will study. For further guidance on the criteria for home or overseas tuition fees, please refer to the UKCISA website .

Additional fee information

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International Relations at Anglia Ruskin University - UCAS