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The School of Government and Socety offers a wide range of modules. You may also select modules from other departments when this makes sense within your degree programme of study. Modules are taught in small seminar groups allowing close interactions of students and members of staff. Please see our Masters degrees for more course details.

You are advised to discuss module choices with your programme director at the beginning of the academic year.

Conflict, Cooperation and Security

• Global Cooperation in Practice
• Theories of Global Cooperation
• Trust-building and Conflict Transformation

International Development

• Aid Management
• Conflict in Developing Countries
• Conflict Humanitarian Aid and Social Reconstruction
• Critical Approaches to Development
• Development Management
• Development Politics
• Disability and Development
• Gender and Development
• Governance
• Governance and State Building in Developing Countries
• Human Resources / Managing People in Times of Global Changes
• Introduction to Development Projects
• Introduction to Disaster Management
• Knowledge Management and E-Governance
• Making Policy
• Managing Public Money
• Non-Governmental Organisations in a Changing International Context
• Post Conflict Reconstruction and Development
• Poverty Inequality Interventions and Approaches
• Public Economic Management
• Public Management and Leadership
• Religion and Development
• Rural Poverty and Development
• Social Analysis of Inequality, Poverty and Development
• State and City in Europe and Asia
• Transforming Sustainability for Development
• Urban Poverty and Development

Local Government Studies

• Collaborative Strategy
• Community Governance and Leadership
• Law, Regulation and Finance of Commissioning
• Leadership and Public Management
• Outcomes, Performance and Resources
• Making Policy
• Participation and Democracy
• Public Management and Governance
• Public Policy Research Methods
• Public Services Procurement and Contracting
• Strategic Commissioning

Political Science and International Relations 

• Advanced Political Analysis
• Advanced Topics In European Integration
• Asia Pacific Security
• Civil War, Conflict Management And Peacekeeping
• Contemporary Debates in International Relations Theory
• Contemporary Issues in Global Ethics
• Contemporary Themes and Issues in British Politics
• Democracy, Power and Citizenship
• Diplomacy and Statecraft
• Diplomatic History of the Twentieth Century
• Dissertation
• European Integration Theory
• Gender and Global Governance
• Global Ethics: Theories And Approaches
• Globalisation and Governance
• Governing Britain Since 1918
• International Political Economy
• Multiculturalism and Religious Conflict
• The Politics of the Arab-Israeli Conflict
• Politics in East Asia I
• Politics in East Asia II
• Politics of the European Union
• Politics and the State
• Post-Conflict Peacebuilding and International Order
• Revolution And Enlightenment (Political Ideas A)
• Security Studies
• Sex, Death, Gender and (In) Security
• Social Theory and Critique: Contested Knowledge
• Social Theory: From Marxism To Post Marxism
• Terrorism and Contemporary Conflict
• The Theory and Ethics of Political Violence 1
• Totalitarianism And The State (Political Ideas B)
• US Foreign and Defence Policy

Russian and East European Studies 

Modules in social science and history

• The Caucasus: History, Culture and Contemporary Politics
• Central Asia: Islam, Nationalism and Globalisation
• Democracy, Nationalism and Integration in Central and South East Europe
• Development and Emerging Inequalities in Europe
• Ethnic and Ethno-Religious Conflict in Eurasia
• European Emerging Markets: Economic Transformation and Development of Ex-Communist Countries
• Readings in Russian and East European Studies
• Researching Russia and Eastern Europe
• The Rise, Fall and Legacies of Communism in Russia and Eastern Europe
• Russian and Ukrainian Politics and International Relations

Russian, East European and other language modules

• Graduate Ab Initio Russian I (Beginners)
• Graduate Ab Initio Russian II (Intermediate)
• Graduate Russian Language III - Advanced Oral
• Graduate Polish for Social Scientists (Beginners)
• Polish for Social Scientists (Intermediate)
• Polish for Social Scientists (Advanced)
• Ukrainian for Research in Social Science
• Kazakh language (Beginners)
• Georgian language (Beginners) (subject to confirmation)

History research training modules

• Historical Methods
• Research Methods in History

Social Sciences research modules

• Introduction to Social Science Research
• Research Design
• Social Research Methods I
• Social Research Methods II
• A number of Short Intensive training modules are also available