Course summary

Studying International Relations at Wolverhampton offers you an opportunity not only to engage with a wide range of current concerns facing the international community, but also encourages you to explore how you might make a difference in shaping a response to these issues. To this end, our curriculum not only provides you with conceptual and intellectual tools that will help you to better understand international relations, but also provides you with the knowledge and skills required to engage with those organisations and institutions that work in the field of international problem-solving. Although our curriculum delivers the core elements of an International Relations award there is also flexibility designed into the programme, offering you the opportunity to devise a programme of study that best suits your interests. International Relations is a multi-disciplinary subject and our programme allows for distinct routes covering politics, economics, war studies and history, or to simply to take whichever modules best appeal to you. However you choose to construct your programme of study, you’ll be taught in an innovative and supportive department by experienced and accredited tutors who are active researchers in their field, and who have a proven research and publications record. Although your programme of study will help you to develop and refine key subject-specific skills geared towards academic success, the Sandwich Year provides you with a valuable opportunity to gain practical experience of working within and for a company or organisation connected with the field of International Relations. In the course of your placement you will not only experience first-hand how professional organisations work to achieve their goals but will also build valuable contacts while developing an experience-based skillset that future employers will value.