DPT: International Relations with Quantitative Methods (MA Hons) (Full-time) (UTMAHINRQM1F)

Jump to: Year 1, Year 2, Year 3, Year 4

Year 1 Academic year: 2025/26, Starting in: September

Mathematics for Social Science (SSPS08009) should normally be taken in Year 1 but can be taken in Year 2. Please talk to your Cohort Lead if you want to take this course in Year 2.

Compulsory courses

Politics and International Relations 1A: Concepts and Debates

Must be passed

Mathematics for Social Science

Must be passed

Politics and International Relations 1B: The Global Dimension

Must be passed

Introduction to Statistics for Social Science

Must be passed

Political Thinkers

Must be passed

Course options

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Challenge Courses are designed to bring together students from different degree programmes to explore the complex issues facing the world today through interdisciplinary collaboration and creative thinking.

Working with each other and expert academics, students will gain new perspectives and develop important life skills highly valued by employers, such as teamwork, problem-solving and adaptability.

Our Changing World

Sustainability and Social Responsibility (UG)

Sustainable Development Goals: History, Progress and Beyond 2030

Living in the Anthropocene

Understanding Gender in the Contemporary World

Healthy Eating for People and Planet

Year 2 Academic year: 2025/26, Starting in: August

Students who are planning on spending their Junior Year Abroad must successfully progress to honours before they can proceed on their JYA.

Mathematics for Social Science (SSPS08009) should normally be taken in Year 1 but can be taken in Year 2. Students who did not take Mathematics for Social Science in their 1st year will be expected to do so in their 2nd year.

Compulsory courses

Doing Social Research with Statistics

Must be passed

Theories of International Relations

Must be passed

Course options

Comparative Politics in a Globalized World

Introduction to British Politics

International Political Economy

AND

Students should not take Introduction to Political Data Analysis.

AND

Our Changing World

Sustainability and Social Responsibility (UG)

Sustainable Development Goals: History, Progress and Beyond 2030

Living in the Anthropocene

Understanding Gender in the Contemporary World

Healthy Eating for People and Planet

Year 3 Academic year: 2025/26, Starting in: August

Students who are planning on spending their Junior Year Abroad must successfully progress to honours before they can proceed on their JYA.

Students on with Quantitative Methods degrees must take Statistical Modelling in year 3 (or year 4 if on a year abroad). They must take at least two and no more than three quantitative electives across their third and fourth year.

Students who take a year abroad in year 3 will almost always take Statistical Modelling in year 4 and then must select at least one and no more than two quantitative electives.

Year 3 students on a Junior Year Abroad must take PLIT10106 Research Design in Politics and International Relations on their return in Year 4.

Compulsory courses

Research Design in Politics and International Relations

Statistical Modelling

Course options

Advanced Issues in the Making of Contemporary Africa

Contemporary Issues in International Development

The Arab-Israeli Conflict: Nations in Collision

Gendering the Middle East

The Ottoman World: the Society, Culture and Legacy of Islam's Last Empire

Law and Power in the Muslim World

Muslim Societies in Southeast Asia

Regional Perspectives in a Globalised Muslim World

International, Transnational and Globalised Dynamics of the Muslim World

Unfolding Afghanistan in a Globalised Context

Africa in World Politics

Politics of the Middle East

Contemporary Russian Politics

Global Justice and Citizenship

Core Texts in Political Theory

Europe and International Migration

Comparing Scottish Devolution

Understanding Indian Politics

Parliamentary Studies

International Politics of Money

Democracy and its Discontents

Public participation in democracy and governance

Public Policy: Agenda-Setting

Neuropolitics

British Government

Contemporary Issues in Political Science

Contemporary Issues in International Relations

Research Design in Politics and International Relations

Contemporary Issues in Political Theory

International Relations of the Asia Pacific

Gender, Power and Representation

Populism: Pathology or Panacea?

The Politics of the End of Empire

Climate Justice

The Politics of the UK Constitution

Strategic Studies and its Critics

Political Economy of Latin America

Politics of Oil

Law, Violence, and Humanity

Social Movements and Collective Action in the Middle East

Gender, Peace and Security

Political Behaviour: Opinions, Choices and Movements

Technology, Politics and Government

Russia's Foreign and Security Policy

Environmental Politics

Democracy and contemporary capitalism

Chinese Politics

The Persian Gulf in International Relations

Media and Protest

Europe in the World

Terrorism and Counterterrorism

Politics and Public Policy

Advanced Topics in Global Security

Foundations in Global Security

Model United Nations

Eastminster: Decolonisation and State-Building in Asia

Education and Social Justice

Global and Transnational Feminisms

Political Emotions

Utopia

Freedom and Slavery in Political Thought

Geopolitics

Anticolonial Political Thought

Conservatism and the Right

Corporate Lobbying and Policymaking in the Global Economy

Elite and Mass Political Behaviour

Causal Inference for Social Sciences

Designing and Implementing Experiments in Political Science

Majoritarian Nationalism, Populism and Ethnic Conflict in South Asia

Sport and Politics

The Far Right

Digital Media and Democracy

Politics and communication of environmental risks

Latin American Foreign Policies

Propaganda and Censorship in Democracies

Stability, Instability and Renewal in Democratic Systems

The Politics of Economic Expertise

The Political Psychology of Global Affairs

Global International Relations Theory

Migration, Borders, and Resistance

Kant and International Relations

Economic Nationalism and Business Power

Designing and Doing Social Research

Doing Survey Research

Globalization

Labour Market Policy in Europe

Health Systems: Strengthening and Reform

Race, Power, and Social Policy

Statistical Modelling

The Internet and Society

Energy Policy and Sustainability

Controversies in Medicine, Technology and the Environment

Knowledge, Expertise and Policy

AND

Students on with Quantitative Methods degrees must take at least two and no more than three quantitative electives across their third and fourth year. Students who take a year abroad in year 3 will almost always take Statistical Modelling in year 4 and then must select at least one and no more than two quantitative electives

Causal Inference for Social Sciences

Social Demography

Advanced Quantitative Methods Research

Multi-Level Modelling in Social Science

Researching Contemporary Britain using Longitudinal Data

Analysing Social Networks with Statistics

Year 4 Academic year: 2025/26, Starting in: August

Students on with Quantitative Methods degrees must take Statistical Modelling in year 3 (or year 4 if on a year abroad). They must take at least two and no more than three quantitative electives across their third and fourth year.

Students who take a year abroad in year 3 will almost always take Statistical Modelling in year 4 and then must select at least one and no more than two quantitative electives.

Students who were on a Junior Year Abroad in Year 3 must take PLIT10106 Research Design in Politics and International Relations on their return in Year 4.