Having enjoyed government and politics at A-level, I chose politics at Glasgow as my first choice because of the content and variety of topics covered by the course, some of which were familiar from A-level, like Parliament, while others were new to me, like the European Union. I also chose Glasgow because of its degree course structure: in my first year, I could take any three courses in arts or social sciences if I got the right grades, even if I had never studied any of those subjects before. I could ultimately take one to honours level or two to joint honours. So for my first year, I was able to combine politics with history, two of my favourite subjects at A-level, and economics, which I had never studied before.
Politics 1A, done in the first semester, is an ‘Introduction to Liberal Democracy’. Here we talk about British political institutions and their development, the British constitution, the Scottish Parliament, and Britain’s ever-controversial relationship with the European Union.
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