BSc in International Relations from the University of Southampton can help further your understanding of international and global politics. This BSc degree examines international political systems, international political theory, and trajectories and developments in contemporary global politics, and helps you to develop crucial skills in analytical and critical thinking, as well as highly valued independent research skills. This BSc degree can help lead to careers in national and international political institutions, think tank and advocacy organisations, the civil service, and journalism. The key features of this programme are breadth, depth, flexibility and choice: Breadth is achieved by studying across the essential subfields of political theory, global politics, public policy, and political analysis, and in delivering rigorous training in research methods. Depth is achieved through the range of compulsory modules in Year 2, which build on the foundations delivered in Year 1, and which together provide the knowledge and understanding required of an international relations degree. Flexibility is achieved through the optional module capacity in each year of study, which provides for specialisation as your knowledge and understanding of the discipline develops, and through the dissertation in Year 3, which is pursued in a topic of your choice in international relations. Choice is achieved by way of the wide selection of available options, which enable you to deepen your knowledge in those areas of most interest to you. Employability is embedded into modules from the first year onwards and right from the first lecture. We explain the degree skills which are taught throughout the modules and offer a number of optional employability modules. The skills you will acquire are in high demand. Our degrees are a passport to vocational and non-vocational careers alike, with recent graduates employed in parliament, banking, media, the public sector, the armed forces and international organisations. Many also progress to higher degrees and then to lectureships and professorships in universities in the UK and overseas.