Undergraduate Modules
As a large department we can offer a large choice of modules to undergraduate students. The number of modules that you take will depend on whether you are taking Politics as a single subject, combined subject, visiting or as an external student.
Below are lists of the modules available for the 2008/09 academic years, with links to their respective module pages. The module pages are only available to current York students, and can be accessed using Computing Services usernames and passwords.
For further information about the combination of modules required for each degree please see the degree handbooks.
First Year Modules
One-term 20-credit modules
- Democratic Tradition
- Aspects of Political Theory
- States, Development and Conflict
- Research Training Workshop
- Great Political Texts
One-term 10-credit modules for joint degree students only
- Introduction to Democratic Tradition
- Introduction to Political Theory
- Introduction to States, Development and Conflict
Second and Third Year Modules
Two-term 40-credit core modules
- Comparative Politics of Western Europe
- Politics of Development
- Who Runs Britain?
- Contemporary Political Philosophy
- Historical Sociology
- History of Political Thought
Two-term 40-credit option modules
- Fascism
- Islam and the Middle East
- National Identities and the British State
- South African Politics
- Theories and Perspectives in International Relations
- War, Peace and Justice
One-term option modules
- Authority and the Liberal Tradition
- Cities and Social Theory in the Information Age
- Comparative Women’s Movements
- Contemporary Indian Politics
- Democracy in Theory and Practice
- Effective States, Failed States, Shadow States & Developmental States
- Global Environmental Politics
- Ethnicity and Conflict
- European Union in Historical Perspective
- Global Justice
- Green Politics
- Karl Marx
- Philosophy of the Criminal Law
- Political Economy of the New Europe
- Political Leadership
- Politics and the Novel
- Politics of Humanitarian Action in War-Torn Areas
- Politics of Latin America
- Princes, Republics, Utopias
- State, Economy and Society
- Terrorism and Religion
- Topics in British Government: Governing as New Labour