Compare 4 Masters Programs in Politics

Duration: Two calendar years (full-time).

Entry Requirements: The qualification for entry is normally a first or upper-second class honours degree (or equivalent).

The MRes Politics with [Language] is a two-year degree programme designed to prepare students for further research, particularly PhD research, in politics with an area specialism. It allows students to combine the study of politics with advanced methodological training in the social sciences and extensive study in an African/Asian/Middle Eastern language. As such, the programme provides two years of intensive language study at SOAS (e.g. Arabic, Chinese, Swahili, etc.) along with two years of high-level social science methodology training at neighbouring Birkbeck College. Applicants are also invited to apply for ESRC funding to support a 2+3 programme of MRes/PhD study.... [-]

The relationship between politics and society has changed dramatically. In this Master’s programme, we aim to understand the causes & consequences of this change.

Mode of education

Each core course is composed of a series of lectures and small-scale tutorials. The lectures present the main theoretical and empirical insights about the topic of the course. In the tutorials, students learn to analyse and apply these insights by discussing and presenting various assignments in small groups.

Electives

The programme features some electives in block 2, but electives can also be selected from courses offered in other Master’s specialisations in Sociology.... [-]

The Master's Degree in Political and Business Communication managed by ID Digital School as collaborating identity of the Camilo José Cela University, is offered in two modalities: On-site or Distance learning. It combines theoretical training with a purely practical approach, which provides a broad vision and is completed by integrating the knowledge and skills necessary to carry out effective communication, learning to create strategies and transmit plans and programs, essential activity of entrepreneurs and politicians.

Thanks to its official Master's degree, approved by the National Agency for the Evaluation of Quality and Accreditation (ANECA), it is valid in 49 countries, 27 of the European Union plus another 22, it allows those who study it to have the option of entering Direct way to a PhD.... [-]

Sociology, International Relations Theory, Political Science, Political Psychology - Theoretical approaches and research methods of all these sciences are united by a unique master's program run at the Faculty of Social Sciences - Sociology of Politics and International Relations.

Professionalism, high scientific qualification, skills of conducting complex research, comparative analysis of large-scale social and political processes and their subjects in the modern world, social and economic aspects of globalization, makes the graduate of this master's profile a popular specialist in the modern labor market.... [-]