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.