International relations
The Local and the Global: IR in Practice
Module code: L2066
Level 4
15 credits in spring semester
Teaching method: Lecture, Seminar
Assessment modes: Portfolio
This module aims to connect your everyday lives in Brighton to wider currents in world politics. You will undertake a research project that focuses on a Brighton-based issue, seeking to understand the connections between that issue and world politics more generally. While doing your project, you will be introduced to:
- theoretical debates in International Relations
- issues around research design
- methodology
- philosophy of social science.
Module learning outcomes
- connect everyday life in and around Brighton to theories and issues in IR and/or IPE: reflect on the relationships between the local and the global, and between theory and empirics.
- undertake basic research design, and understand basic issues around methodology, method and philosophy of social science.
- Develop study and research skills, and transferable skills.
- Reflect on their role as students, individuals and community members in Brighton.