Exchange students: please note this course has content overlap with International Security and cannot be taken in combination with it
Description
This course is an undergraduate survey of the theoretical foundations of security studies and contemporary issues in international security. Building on the first-year Introduction to International Relations, the course introduces students to general theories, concepts and debates in the subfield, and applies them to a set of more specific topics in present-day global security. The aim is to enable students to think in a more theoretically rigorous and analytic manner about security issues and understand their relation to the broader field of International Relations.
Course objectives
Objective 1: Enable students to think critically beyond state-centered conceptions of security.
Objective 2: Locate the study of global security within a broader historical and political context.
Mode of instruction
Lectures
Assessment method
Final exam consisting of 50% multiple-choice questions and 50% open questions
Reading list
Textbook: to be announced.
All relevant information (syllabus, additional readings etc.) can be found on Brightspace one week before the start of the course.
Registration
See 'Practical Information
Timetable
See 'MyTimetable'