在本课程中，您将研究政治的实践和理论方面，研究当代对主要政治话题的看法，并对政治结构和制度进行批判性分析，以获取对过去，现在和未来政治关注领域的见识，包括本地和本地。全球影响。着重于现实生活中的政治决策，机构和政策，您将研究历史，哲学和社会学背景下的相关辩论。我们以历史为重点的模块将使您有机会长期观察美国，英国和欧洲的政治，而其他模块将使您能够更近地探索社会学和犯罪学的争论。您还可以在全球和国际问题，当地政治问题以及政治活动和行动主义方面发展专业领域，从可选模块中进行选择，这些模块将为您的研究增加更多的内
Our curriculum stretches from Africa to America to Britain and Europe. Youll gain insights into change and continuity in national and global governance, how leaders and politicians have influenced such processes, and how the directions and decisions of political parties and institutions have affected the lives of ordinary people.<br><br>Youll explore the impact of individual leaders like Tony Blair and Vladimir Putin alongside the role of international organisations and alliances, as well as wider issues of international conflict and world peace, consumption and trade, crime and terrorism, and media and communication.<br><br>In addition to the focus on politics and international relations, youll also gain a range of transferable skills to equip you for your graduate future. Your use of data analysis and different sources from government documents to focus groups plus innovative assessments that include, but go far beyond, the traditional essay, will give you an impressive narrative to tell in future job applications.<br><br>As a Politics and International Relations student at ARU, you'll graduate with a degree that will equip you for a career working for a political party, in diplomacy and other parts of the civil service for international organisations, or in other jobs as varied as hedge fund trader or teacher.<br><br>Lectures, seminars and classroom time are a vital part of our BA Politics and International Relations degree, but you will have the opportunity to broaden your horizons. In your time at ARU, you could access the original documents of figures such as Margaret Thatcher and Winston Churchill (held in the city of Cambridge where youll be taught) and see how they handled the big international and political crises of their day.<br><br>You could hear leading politicians speak at the Cambridge Union or at the various political clubs across the city. You could access the latest journal articles and books in libraries across town to give you up to date insights into today's politics. And you would have the option to study a language or undertake a work placement as part of your course, to further equip you with skills, knowledge and experience to prepare you for your graduate future.