The course aims to provide you with an innovative grounding in the central theoretical and practical aspects of both the traditional and the expanded conceptions of International Relations. It also aims to equip you with the conceptual and analytical skills to think critically about the nature of global structures and processes. These skills are fundamental to postgraduate study and invaluable for vocational and personal development and for future professional life. International Relations provides a way of studying some of the most important and urgent questions in contemporary world politics; and ways of understanding global structures and processes in an increasingly interconnected world. Students completing the course have gone on to a variety of careers in the public, private and voluntary sectors.