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Political Science and Geography

Students now focus on the research-based development of their core topics as they prepare for their final degree grade. Students may be required to write a dissertation or prepare a case study which provides an excellent opportunity to position themselves for a career in a specific sector or for postgraduate study.

Senior Sophister - Programme Requirements

Students must take modules to the value of 60 ECTS credits.

• Students taking both subjects equally in the Senior Sophister year are required to take modules to the value of 30 credits in both subjects
• Students taking Political Science only are required to take PO4600 and PO4690 (30 credits) and any other two political science modules (30 credits)
• Students taking Geography only are required to take GG4030 (20 credits) and any other geography modules (40 credits), including up to 20 credits of Broad Curriculum modules over the Junior and Senior Sophister years.

Senior Sophister - Module Outlines

SS Module Code	SS Module Title	ECTS	Pre-requisites	Department/School
POU44000	Research Seminar for Political Scientists	20	POU33011 & POU33012	Political Science
POU44010	Issues in Contemporary Politics	10	POU33011 & POU33012	Political Science
POU44021	Contemporary International Relations A	5	POU22021 & POU22022	Political Science
POU44032	Contemporary International Relations B	5	POU22021 & POU22022	Political Science
POU44040	African Politics	10	None	Political Science
POU44050	Political Psychology	5	None	Political Science
POU44061	Autocracy	5	None	Political Science
POU44062	Human Rights	5	POU44061	Political Science
POU44081	Interest Groups	5	None	Political Science
POU44101	Topics: Transparency in Modern Democracies	5	None	Political Science
POU44111	Topics: Political Parties	5	None	Political Science
POU44122	Topics: Media and Politics	5	None	Political Science
POU44132	Topics: Military and Politics	5	None	Political Science
POU44141	Economic Equality and Democracy	5	None	Political Science
POU44152	Right Wing Populism in Contemporary Democracies	5	None	Political Science
POU44162	Political Theory: Contemporary Topics	5	None	Political Science
POU44171	Russian Politics after Communism	5	None	Political Science
POU44191	Advanced Topics in Civil Conflict	5	None	Political Science
POU44202	Ethnic Politics and Identity	5	None	Political Science
GGU34975	Glacial Geomorphology	10	None	Geography
GGU34979	Human Origins	10	None	Geography
GGU44926	Environmental Governance 2	10	None	Geography
GGU44930	Dissertation	20	GGU33928	Geography
GGU44936	Globalisation and African Development	5	None	Geography
GGU44961	Understanding Environmental Change	10	None	Geography
GGU44962	Spatial Analysis using GIS	5	None	Geography
GGU44966	Historical Geography 1	5	None	Geography
GGU44967	Historical Geography 2	5	None	Geography
GGU44971	Stormy Geomorphology	10	None	Geography
BOU44111	Restoration Ecology and Re-wilding	5	None	Geography
TEU	Trinity Elective	5-20	None	Geography/College