Университет Шеффилда, BA (Hons), Geography and Politics

Year 1: British politics; comparing modern polities; human nature, reason and desire: an introduction to western political thought; information and communication skills for geographers; introducing social and cultural geographies; introduction to political analysis; qualitative methods in human geography; region, nation and world; statistical data analysis in geography; the globalisation of world politics. Year 2: cities and modernities; comparing political change: from dictatorship to democracy; contemporary international affairs; contemporary political theory; cultural geographies; environment, society and policy; foundations of modern political thought; geographies of development; geographies of governance; geographies of social identities and difference; globalisation and state power; international relations theory; introduction to geographic information systems; philosophical issues in human geography; political analysis: approaches and methods; research design in human geography; researching human geographies; social geographies of life chances; socio-spatial analysis; the analysis of British politics; the global political economy; the making of new labour; the politics and government of the European union. Year 3: advanced political analysis.