Political Science

Overview

Your optional modules may cover topics including:

• Survey measurement and research methods
• The economy and the state
• Democracies in Europe
• Theories of justice
• Conflict resolution

Your future

All Essex politics graduates have the distinction of a qualification from one of the world’s leading politics departments.

The graduates from the Political Science course offered by the University of Essex can expect to find jobs in market research, the media and central or local government. It also provides a foundation for further research in political science. You will gain key employability skills such as analytical reasoning, research design, and report writing.

Recent graduates have gone on to work for the following high-profile organisations:

• The Civil Service
• Local government
• The World Bank
• The United Nations
• NATO
• YouGov and YouGov America

We also offer supervision for PhD and MPhil in the following fields: government; ideology and discourse analysis; international relations; political behaviour; and politics.

Our academic reputation is illustrated by the fact that many of our graduates now teach or research at universities, colleges of higher education and schools. For example, recent graduates are now research fellows and academic staff at: Mannheim, Germany; ETH Zurich, Switzerland;