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Global Political Economy MRes – 2 years part-time
Master
In Bath ()
Description
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Type
Master
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Duration
2 Years
On completion of this course you will have a deepened, interdisciplinary understanding of social science discourses and methods for analysing global processes of change, both generally and in specified policy areas.
You will also be knowledgeable on key contributions to thinking about social, economic and political aspects of the planet as an interdependent social system, and will have an understanding of how global and national policy processes interact.
About this course
Develop in-depth knowledge and skills of research methods. Prepare yourself for an academic or professional career with a focus on politics and economics.
The course aims to equip you for a career as a professional researcher in an academic or non-academic environment by developing your core research skills. You'll be encouraged to review and critically evaluate approaches to research and their application, and to identify and investigate your own original research questions.
IELTS: 6.5 overall with no less than 6.0 in all components
The Pearson Test of English Academic (PTE Academic): 62 with no less than 59 in any element
TOEFL IBT: 90 overall with a minimum 21 in all 4 components
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Subjects
- Part Time
- Global
- Design
- Interdisciplinary
- Advanced
- Delivered
- Research
- Apprenticeship
- Econometrics
- Quantitative
Course programme
- Advanced interdisciplinary research design (collaboratively delivered unit)
- Short research apprenticeship project (MRes)
- Qualitative methods 1
- Principles and skills of social research
- Global transformations: issues and trajectories (collaboratively delivered unit)
- Either Econometrics for economics and finance or Quantitative methods 1: introduction to quantitative methods
- Advanced interdisciplinary research design (collaboratively delivered unit)
- Long research apprenticeship project (MRes)
- Either Financial econometrics or Quantitative methods 2
- Environmental and resource economics
- Qualitative methods 2
- Independent research essay
- Economic foreign policy and the international trade regime
- International organisations in world politics
- Director of Studies approved unit
- MRes dissertation
Learning
- Lectures
- Online resources
- Seminars
- Tutorials
- Workshops
- Coursework
- Dissertation
- Essay
- Online assessment
- Oral assessment
- Seminar
- Written examination
- Other
Additional information
Overseas deadline - 30 June 2020
Global Political Economy MRes – 2 years part-time