BA (Hons) Politics and International Relations Bachelor's degree at East London

Gain essential skills to boost your career prospects, particularly for roles connected to health and wellbeing fields. You'll engage with digital platforms, industry-led workshops, and real-world tasks to build confidence in communication, research, and digital professionalism. Throughout, you'll map your career aspirations, develop a strong online presence, and learn to identify the skills employers seek. With support from academic staff and career coaches, you'll reflect on your personal stren

Prepare for success in higher education by developing the academic, personal, and professional skills needed for your studies and beyond. You'll learn effective time management, research strategies, digital proficiency, and academic writing techniques, with a strong focus on reflective learning and goal setting. Through interactive workshops, group discussions, and guided independent study, you'll gain confidence in using university systems, working collaboratively, and responding to feedback. T

Practical maths skills are essential across health and education careers. You'll explore statistics, probability, and basic financial numeracy, learning how to apply them to real workplace scenarios. Workshops, tutorials, and digital practice sessions will build your ability to analyse data accurately and confidently. Special emphasis is placed on using tools like spreadsheets and calculators within healthcare and education settings. As you sharpen your mathematical reasoning, you'll prepare for

Essential communication skills underpin success at university and beyond. This module focuses on developing your oral, written, and interpersonal abilities, preparing you to adapt your communication style to different academic and professional contexts. You'll explore contemporary issues in media and communication, build your active listening skills, and learn how to structure persuasive arguments. Group work and interactive workshops provide a supportive environment to practise and refine your

Future educators need strong project management and reflective skills, and this module sets you on that path. Through a year-long educational project, you'll develop leadership abilities, professional communication, and practical knowledge of teaching and learning processes. Regular feedback and supervisory support ensure that your project evolves successfully, helping you connect theory to real-world education contexts. Along the way, you'll build confidence in academic conventions and collabor

This module introduces you to crime and surveillance from sociological and criminological perspectives and offers you theoretical and practical skills and experiences that prepare you for your journey as a criminologist. It considers how surveillance overlaps with many fields, including crime detection and prevention and the management of dangerous spaces and people. It also offers an introduction to cybercrime. You will be asked to produce a public information leaflet that outlines the dangers

In this module, you will consider the choices you make about your own body and its presentation to others and in so doing will consider how a psychosocial approach to the body embraces choices informed rationally and irrationally. The latter incorporates the personal and political as well as changing attitudes to health and life. The human body and the nature of embodiment constitute a critical area of academic research and are central to cultural and social change. In a rapidly changing globali

This module introduces you to digital sociology by exploring what it means to be a sociologist in the rapidly developing technological world. It will also introduce you to digital social research methods, asking what issues there are for social researchers in a digital society; what new material is available to social researchers; how social scientists can harness the new tools available to them and how they can navigate through this space in a secure, mindful and ethical way?

This module introduces you to key issues and debates about globalisation and society. Knowledge of the complexities of globalisation is introduced through topical readings, a guided tour of Parliament, a visit to the British Museum that you will prepare for and reflect on, using the key concepts of political economy. As well as the two core visits, the topics are presented and examined through lectures, seminars, workshops and film.

You will start your first year with a focus on how the knowledge and skills you will develop during your course will prepare you to be social activists, a role which can be played out in a variety of different careers and volunteer activities through the course of your lives. The module will also provide an introduction to the key Vision 2028 'UEL Graduate Attributes', such as the psychological and physical determinants of human performance that are difficult or impossible to replicate by Artifi

The aim of this module is to provide you with an introduction to the language and conceptual tools used by the discipline of politics in the analysis of political practice and public policies. Understanding these concepts is essential for those interested in the field of international relations and international politics.

This politics module will help you to make sense of the complex world facing us today and will demystify economics by thinking about this from a political perspective. It is a crucial foundation for you if you have an interest in global affairs and the module seeks to look backwards to important classical theories, to look at the world facing us today (and in the future) to see whether classical approaches from political economy make sense in global times. You will learn some of the basics of ec

In this module, we will consider the representation of the present as a moment of crisis. This will include consideration of: Economic crisis, including welfare reform and austerity Political crisis, including democratic deficits and populism Ecological crisis National crisis, including questions of identity, racism and justice Emotional crisis, including links between individual well-being and social structures. The module will introduce you to histories of empire and colonialism to understand

The module introduces you to the study of international relations through the study of a range of international issues.

This module provides you with an introduction to the language and conceptual tools used by the discipline of politics in the analysis of public policies. It encourages you to critically reflect upon the government policies that shape the world we live in.

The module provides an overview of the theory and practice of global governance, with a particular focus on the structure, functioning and competencies of the United Nations. By exploring a whole range of policy dilemmas, alternatives and outcomes, the module will help you develop a critical understanding of the dominant concerns and possible solutions (at national, regional and global levels). In addition, the module addresses the nature of cooperation and major policy initiatives between the U