China & Globalisation

Course detail Description

The ‘rise’ of China over the past three decades raises challenging questions about the relationships between politics and market expansion, international cooperation, business innovations, and cultural and social developments. Our course will provide you with the conceptual and research tools to critically understand these relationships from comparative and global perspectives.

Our MSc is based in our Lau China Institute and benefits from a growing and dynamic staff strongly committed to research and teaching. They combine expertise in Chinese history and politics with specialisms in different theoretical traditions, including political science, the environment, economics, international relations, sociology and international business and coporate governance.

The expertise of the associates of the Lau China Institute spans international trade law, healthcare regulation and biomedicine innovations, film and media, and military and maritime strategies.

Our course is designed to provide you with high quality graduate research training for a career related to China. It aims to broaden and deepen your understanding of contemporary China and familiarise you with major research methods currently used in the field of China studies. Our MSc is a platform both for further graduate work or enhancing your employment prospects. You do not need language or subject knowledge to begin this course.

Teaching

We will give you 20 hours of lectures and seminars per 20-credit module, and we will expect you to undertake 180 hours of independent study. For your dissertation, you will have six hours of one-to-one or group supervision, and you will undertake 596 hours of independent study. Typically, one credit equates to 10 hours of work.

Per 20 credit module:

Lectures, seminars & feedback: Typically 20 hours.

Self-study: 180 hours.

Dissertation module:

Lectures, seminars & feedback: Six contact hours of one-to-one or group consultation with supervisors.

Self-study: 596 hours hours of self-study and project work.

Assessment

Most modules will be assessed by essay or a written examination and by class participation and attendance. An oral presentation will be required if you fail the participation and attendance component. The dissertation module assessment will be on the dissertation alone (up to 12,000 words).

The required module Governing China and the Age of Globalisation will be assessed by an unseen three hour examination and a participation element.

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Structure

Year 1

Courses are divided into modules. You will normally take modules totalling 180 credits.

If you are studying the part-time course, you are normally advised to take taught modules to the value of 80 credits in total in your first year (which usually includes at least two required modules). During your second year, you are normally advised to take the final taught module(s) to the value of 40 credits and to submit your dissertation (worth 60 credits).

King’s College London reviews the modules offered on a regular basis to provide up-to-date, innovative and relevant programmes of study. Therefore, modules offered may change. We suggest you keep an eye on this course page for updates.

There are a limited number of spaces available on each optional module, and you will have the opportunity to discuss your choices with your personal tutor.

• China and the Age of Globalisation (20 credits)
• Dissertation: MSc China and Globalisation (60 credits)

• Contemporary Chinese Society: Change and Transformation (20 credits)
• Governing China and the Age of Globalisation (20 credits)
• China's International Relations (1949-Present) (20 credits)
• Contemporary Chinese Politics (20 credits)
• Government and Governance in Contemporary China (20 credits)
• China & Global Governance (20 credits)
• Environment & Health In China (20 credits)
• Economic Policies & Development in Contemporary China (20 credits)
• China's International Investments (20 credits)
• Internship (20 credits)