Politics with Human Rights

Description

What is the nature of the changing global system and how does it have an impact on individual well-being? What have been the major achievements, setbacks, and challenges to the global human rights movement? How do domestic and international politics interact in ways that are important for the promotion and protection of human rights? You are provided with the opportunity to find answers to these, and other compelling questions, on our BA Politics with Human Rights.

We combine requisite and optional modules in our Department of Government, with core modules in our Human Rights Centre. Your first year includes an introduction to human rights and foundational courses in politics. Your second year includes the modules Issues and Methods in Human Rights, Political Theory and Political Analysis. Your third year includes our Human Rights Colloquium and a series of specialist modules and/or your independent project on the politics of human rights.

Detailed Course Facts

• GBP 9000 Year (EEA)
• GBP 11950 Year (Non-EEA)

• English

Course Content

The special characteristics of our course are flexibility and choice. In your first year, you have 60 credits of compulsory modules and 60 credits of optional modules. For BA Politics with Human Rights, your optional modules can be chosen from across the faculty in first year and from within the Department of Government in your second and third year. There is a great deal of choice for these optional modules due to the extensive range of modules offered by our departments.
With a small number of exceptions, if you successfully complete the first year of your BA, then you are qualified to enter the second year of that course and a range of other courses: for example, if you take economics, politics, philosophy and sociology, then you have a choice of at least nine possible single or joint honours courses at the end of your first year. This means you can change your course, providing you have taken the appropriate pre-requisites and places are available. During your second year you will have 90 credits of compulsory modules and you will take a further 30 credits of optional modules. In your final year you will have 30 credits of compulsory modules and 90 credits of optional modules.
We operate a credit framework for our awards, which is based on principles widely used across the UK university sector. Each module has a credit rating attached and our standard three-year course consists of 360 credits (120 credits in your first year, and 240 credits across your second and final years).
Please note that module information on our course finder provides a guide to course content and may be subject to review on an annual basis.

Year 1

Foundations of Human Rights;
Introduction to Politics;
Introduction to International Relations (recommended); and
one option (The Enlightenment is recommended)

Year 2

Issues and Methods in Human Rights;
Introduction to Political Theory;
Political Analysis; and
one politics option

Year 3

Human Rights Colloquium; and
three politics options

English Language Requirements

IELTS band : 6

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Requirements

• A-levels: AAB-ABB
• GCSE English: C or above or equivalent
• GCSE Maths: C or above or equivalent
• IB: 33-32 points, including Standard Mathematics grade 4, if not taken at Higher Level (we consider IB certificates at the Higher level on a case-by-case basis)
• Achievement of the Access to HE Diploma with a minimum of 6 level three credits at distinction and the remainder at merit (or above) or achievement of the Access to HE Diploma with a minimum of 45 level three credits at merit (or above).

English language requirements for applicants whose first language is not English: IELTS 6.0 overall with minimum 5.5 in each component (or equivalent). Different requirements apply for second year entry.

Work Experience

No work experience is required.

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• ✔️ Flexible study schedule
• ✔️ Experienced teachers
• ✔️ Certificate upon completion

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Related Scholarships*

• Academic Excellence Scholarship

  "The Academic Excellence Scholarship can provide up to a 50 % reduction in tuition per semester. These scholarships will be renewed if the student maintains superior academic performance during each semester of their 3-year Bachelor programme. The scholarship will be directly applied to the student’s tuition fees."

• Access Bursary

  Bursary for UK students all subjects where the variable tuition fee rate is payable.

• Alumni Bursary

  Alumni Bursary for UK Undergraduate students

* The scholarships shown on this page are suggestions first and foremost. They could be offered by other organisations than University of Essex.

Funding

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