Politics, International Relations, and History with Foundation Year
University of Roehampton
UCAS Code: L211 | Bachelor of Arts (with Honours) - BA (Hons)
University of Roehampton
UCAS Code: L211 | Bachelor of Arts (with Honours) - BA (Hons)
About this course
This course is offered as a degree with foundation year - a four-year programme which provides an additional foundation year at the beginning of the degree, that will give you academic and practical experience, as well as the skills you need to ensure you are equipped to successfully complete your chosen degree.
**Why this course?**
Top modern university in London in History (Complete University Guide 2025)
Silver in the 2023 Teaching Excellence Framework (TEF) For delivering high quality teaching, learning and outcomes for our students.
History ranked 1st in London for Academic Support (National Student Survey 2024)
• Study in a department with a worldwide reputation for its human rights research and campaigning.
• An unusually broad range of optional modules covers topics as diverse as activism, terrorism, the media, the philosophy of law and gender politics.
• Students have the opportunity of presenting at Roehampton's influential International Conference of Political Filmmaking in collaboration with European Universities.
**About this course**
Our BA Politics, International Relations, and History degree programme will equip you with the ability to analyse, understand and debate issues in international and UK politics, international relations and understand both political philosophy and modern politics in action.
You will get to engage in debate around current political challenges such as global power politics, terrorism, climate change and the politics of gender, race and class. You will graduate as an authority on a wide range of topics, and equipped for a successful career.
**Skills**
This degree will provide a modern perspective on these interrelated issues. On our BA Politics International Relations, and History, our priority is ensuring that you graduate with a professional skillset. This incorporates;
• Analysing the interplay of global affairs in the past present and future
• Gaining a comprehensive understanding of political systems, international relations and their place in history
• Understanding how politics and international relations have played through history is important in making an impact
• Learning traditional research skills
• Learning digital literacies to uncover the past and current affairs
**Career opportunities**
This degree challenges you to think globally and comparatively to engage with cultural, social, economic, political, and intellectual history. You will learn how historians and political scholars operate, with practical opportunities to engage in public discourse and digital humanities projects.
If you’re ready to learn, we’ll help you gain the confidence and opportunities to achieve.
Our Careers team is on hand to help from the start of your studies until after you graduate. Under their guidance you’ll benefit from a wide range of support, including:
• CV building
• Interview preparation
• Mentoring
• Industry connections
• Work experience
• Volunteering opportunities
• Job fairs
• Introductions to future employers.
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Extra funding
We offer a wide range of scholarships for UK undergraduates, including: - The Roehampton Bursary is worth £1,000 for the first year of our undergraduate degree programmes*. It will be awarded automatically to students in receipt of a full maintenance loan, to help with costs such as travel and accommodation. - Academic Excellence Scholarships worth: £3,000 over the course of a degree for students with the equivalent of AAA or above (144+ tariff) at A-level (or equivalent tariff in other qualifications, e.g. BTEC) and £2,000 over the course of a degree for students with the equivalent of AAB at A-level (136-143 tariff) (or equivalent tariff in other qualifications, e.g. BTEC) - esports scholarships, worth £2,000 per year of the degree, available to students who demonstrate aptitude in esports. - Music and Sports Scholarships, available to students who demonstrate excellence in music or sports - Care leaver bursaries, worth £2,000 per year of study to Care Leavers enrolling on Undergraduate programmes at Roehampton, for up to four years of study. Find out more: https://www.roehampton.ac.uk/undergraduate-courses/funding-and-scholarships/
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Top job areas of graduates
History is a very popular subject (although numbers have fallen of late) — in 2015, over 10,000 UK students graduated in a history-related course. Obviously, there aren't 11,000 jobs as historians available every year, but history is a good, flexible degree that allows graduates to go into a wide range of different jobs, and consequently history graduates have an unemployment rate comparable to the national graduate average. Many — probably most — jobs for graduates don't ask for a particular degree to go into them and history graduates are well set to take advantage. That's why so many go into jobs in the finance industry, human resources, marketing, PR and events management, as well as the more obvious roles in education, welfare and the arts. Around one in five history graduates went into further study last year. History and teaching were the most popular further study subjects for history graduates, but law, journalism, and politics were also popular postgraduate courses.
Politics
What are graduates doing after six months?
This is what graduates told us they were doing (and earning), shortly after completing their course. We've crunched the numbers to show you if these immediate prospects are high, medium or low, compared to those studying this subject/s at other universities.
Top job areas of graduates
The numbers of people taking politics degrees fell sharply last year and we'll keep an eye on this one - it can't really be because of graduates getting poor outcomes as politics grads do about as well as graduates on average. Most politics or international relations graduates don't actually go into politics - although many do, as activists, fundraisers and researchers. Jobs in local and central government are also important. Other popular jobs include marketing and PR, youth and community work, finance roles, HR and academic research (you usually need a postgraduate degree to get into research). Because so many graduates get jobs in the civil service, a lot of graduates find themselves in London after graduating. Politics is a very popular postgraduate subject, and so about one in five politics graduates go on to take another course - usually a one-year Masters - after they finish their degrees.
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History
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