Overview
This programme is designed to analyse various aspects of International Relations in a scholarly, critical and methodologically sophisticated manner. Having introduced the theoretical and methodological components which facilitate our study of the field, the aim is to use these tools to examine, explain and understand the issues, topics and processes that make up our world, from security and terrorism, migration and mobility, to global financial crises.
The programme offers a balance between providing core content in the field of International Relations while allowing students to actively choose their area of specialism.
The programme offers a balance between providing core content in the field of International Relations while allowing students to actively choose their area of specialism.It is also possible to study for a PG Diploma in International Relations.
The Diploma is constructed around the coursework elements of the MA programmes with no dissertation required. On successful completion of the coursework, however, it is possible to complete the dissertation for an award of MA.
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International Relations highlights
Internationally Renowned Experts
•Taught by world-leading experts in areas such as migration and asylum, border security, visual culture and international ethics. An opportunity to study international relations in a location where communal conflicts have a clear international aspect in both their perpetuation and resolution. Benefits from a vibrant interdisciplinary research culture within the School, including insights from History, Anthropology and Philosophy.
Learning and Teaching
Skills students will learn throughout the MA programme.
Cognitive and Transferable Skills
-At the end of the programme learners will have the capacity to be self reflexive and practice sound judgement, and will possess the necessary skills to enhance their ability, think critically and pursue independent research.
- Students will have the opportunity to acquire knowledge and understanding about the history of the discipline and knowledge of its specific concepts, issues and vocabulary.
- Students will enhance their knowledge of the general methodological and theoretical approaches to key issue areas of the discipline.
- Students will be able to solve problems, process and prioritize a wide variety of information, and express arguments and positions in oral and written form.
- The Postgraduate Diploma in International Relations provides postgraduate learners with the opportunity to develop generic analytical, reasoning, literacy and communication skills.
Knowledge and Understanding
-Upon completion of the program the learner will be well versed with the methodology, the historiography and the basic approaches to International Politics and be able to research independently using the expert language of the subject.
- The program will enhance the existing understanding of comparative methods, theoretical models, political sociology and historical textual analysis.
- The learner will acquire competency in specific areas such as the analysis of political decision-making, International History and International Security.
- The program will furthermore provide a firm grounding in the study the emerging structures of governance beyond the nation-state
- It will introduce the learner not only to the specialist literature of the field, but to key debates in contemporary international relations theory and methodology.
- The Postgraduate Diploma International Relations will enhance the postgraduate learner's generic skills of the subject
Specific Skills
-Upon completion of the program the learner will be well versed with the methodology, the historiography and the basic approaches to International Politics and be able to research independently using the expert language of the subject.
- The program will enhance the existing understanding of comparative methods, theoretical models, political sociology and historical textual analysis.
- The learner will acquire competency in specific areas such as the analysis of political decision-making, International History and International Security.
- The program will furthermore provide a firm grounding in the study the emerging structures of governance beyond the nation-state
- It will introduce the learner not only to the specialist literature of the field, but to key debates in contemporary international relations theory and methodology.
- The Postgraduate Diploma International Relations will enhance the postgraduate learner's generic skills of the subject