2025/26 BSc in History and Politics

2025/26 UBHYPOL BSc in History and Politics

Paper 1

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GV100 Introduction to Political Theory (1.0)

Paper 2

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GV101 Introduction to Political Science (1.0)

Papers 3,4

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Papers 3,4

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Paper 5

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Paper 6

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Papers 7,8

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Papers 7,8

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Paper 9

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Paper 10

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Paper 11

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Paper 12

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GV302 Key Themes in Political Thought (1.0)

GV307 Conflict and Cooperation: A Few Provocative Debates (0.5)
(NOT AVAILABLE 2025/26)

GV309 Politics of Money and Finance in Comparative Perspective (0.5)

GV311 British Government (1.0)

GV313 Politics of Trade in Comparative Perspective (0.5)

GV314 Empirical Research in Government (1.0)

GV315 Voting and Elections in Developing Democracies (0.5)

GV316 Advanced Issues in Applied Political Theory (0.5)

GV318 Building Democracies from Conflict? Violence, Power-Sharing and Institutional Design (0.5)

GV319 Experimental Politics (0.5)

GV320 Populism (0.5)

GV321 Concepts and Controversies in Political Theory (0.5)

GV324 Applied Quantitative Methods for Political Science (0.5)

GV325 Topics in Political Economy: Applications (0.5)

GV326 Conflict, War and Revolution - Approaches to Political Theory (1.0)
(NOT AVAILABLE 2025/26)

GV327 Governance and Corruption (0.5)

GV328 Middle East Politics in Transnational Perspective (0.5)
(NOT AVAILABLE 2025/26)

GV329 Making Democracy Work (0.5)

GV330 Data Science Applications to Politics Research (0.5)

GV333 Politics of Public Lands (0.5)

GV334 Comparative Perspectives on Inequality and Politics: Global North, Global South (0.5)
(NOT AVAILABLE - DISCONTINUED)

GV335 African Political Economy (0.5)

GV336 Latin America: Democracy and Development (0.5)
(NOT AVAILABLE 2025/26)

GV337 Politics, Crime, and Criminal Justice in Comparative Perspective (0.5)

GV338 Politics and Political Economy of India (0.5)

GV339 Global Change, Regional Responses: The Political Economy of National Development in the Global South (0.5)

GV340 The Art of Powerand Political Resistance (0.5)

GV341 Politics, Gender, and Development (0.5)

GV362 Advanced Topics in Government: Executive Politics (0.5)

GV366 Political Economy of the Developing World (1.0)
(NOT AVAILABLE 2025/26)

GV390 Government Dissertation Option (1.0)

GV398 Inside the Mind of a Voter: Research in Electoral Psychology (1.0)
(NOT AVAILABLE 2025/26)

GV3L1 Analytical Approaches to British Politics (0.5)
(NOT AVAILABLE - DISCONTINUED)

GV3L2 The Politics and Policy of Climate Change and Sustainability (0.5)

GV3L6 The Political Economy of Inequality (0.5)

HY311 Limited War During the Cold War Era: The US in Korea (1950-53) and Vietnam (1954-75) (1.0)

HY315 The European Enlightenment, c.1680-1799 (1.0)

HY319 Napoleon and Europe (1.0)

HY320 The Cold War Endgame (1.0)

HY322 Nazi Germany's War: Violence and Occupation in Europe, 1939-1945 (1.0)

HY323 Travel, Pleasure and Politics: The European Grand Tour, 1670-1825 (1.0)

HY327 The Anglo-American Special Relationship, 1939-89 (1.0)
(NOT AVAILABLE 2025/26)

HY328 The Arab-Israeli Conflict: Nationalism, Territory, Religion (1.0)

HY330 From Tea to Opium: China and the Global Market in the Long Eighteenth Century (1.0)

HY331 Henry Kissinger and the Global 1970s (1.0)

HY332 Interwar worlds: the cultural consequences of the First World War (1.0)

HY333 People and Power in West African History, c. 1450 - 1850 (1.0)

HY334 Communication Revolutions in Latin America, c.1539 to the Present (1.0)

HY335 History of Foreign Relations of the People?s Republic of China, 1949-2008 (1.0)

HY336 The United States and nuclear weapons from the Manhattan project to the end of the Cold War (1.0)
(NOT AVAILABLE 2025/26)

HY337 Sources for the Subcontinent: The Culture and Politics of South Asia (1.0)

HY344 Muslim-Jewish Relations: History and Memory in the Middle East and Europe (1.0)
(NOT AVAILABLE 2025/26)