**Course overview**: This course includes an integrated foundation year, ideal if you don’t have the appropriate subjects and/or grades to go straight into year one. Politics is an incredibly diverse and varied subject, and our degree explores politics in the UK, EU, and further afield. With a politics degree you develop transferable skills sought by employers, including effective communication in a range of verbal and written forms, critical thinking, and time-management. You learn frameworks, skills, and concepts to be able to explain and practice politics in the outside world. The degree mixes the study of core theories and concepts with the study of concrete events. The range of modules enables you to analyse contemporary political developments at home and abroad, and you are offered the opportunity to take a dedicated careers module. You explore vital issues such as political violence, international relations, political ideologies, gender and politics, political communications, revolution, social movements, and electoral and parliamentary politics in the UK and USA.
**After the course**: A variety of career paths will be open to you, including national and local politics, local government, law, accountancy, social work, librarianship, journalism, public relations, teaching and retail management.
Course Details - Modules
Access course information through Teesside University’s website using the course details link provided.
Course Details – Assessment Method
Assessment Methods are not listed for this Course.
Course Details – Professional Bodies
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How to Apply
26 January This is the deadline for applications to be completed and sent for this course. If the university or college still has places available you can apply after this date, but your application is not guaranteed to be considered.
Application Codes
Course code:
L204
Institution code:
T20
Campus Name:
Teesside University
Campus code:
Points of Entry
The following entry points are available for this course:
Foundation
Entry Requirements for Advanced Entry (Year 2 and Beyond)
Entry Requirements for Advanced Entry are not listed for this Course.
International applicants
Standard Qualification Requirements
Pass Access to HE Diploma in a relevant subject area.
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Minimum Qualification Requirements
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English language requirements
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AdditionalDetails
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Unistats information
Student satisfaction :
80%
Employment after 15 months (Most common jobs):
70%
Go onto work and study:
86%
Fees and funding
England
9250.0
Year 1
Northern Ireland
9250.0
Year 1
Scotland
9250.0
Year 1
Wales
9250.0
Year 1
Republic of Ireland
9250.0
Year 1
EU
14000.0
Year 1
International
14000.0
Year 1
Additional Fee Information
Find out more about fees and funding if you are from the UK or Ireland here: tees.ac.uk/fees, or if you are an international student here: tees.ac.uk/international/fees. If you live in the Channel Islands or Isle of Man contact your education authority: gov.uk/student-finance.
Provider information
Teesside University
Middlesbrough
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Tees Valley
TS1 3BX
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