Students must take courses which total 4 'full' units.
This includes:
-
Two compulsory courses (equalling one full unit, called 'Paper 1')
-
Optional courses (to the value of two full units, called 'Paper 2' & 'Paper 3')
-
A dissertation (to the value of one full unit, called 'Paper 4')
Additionally, all students must take EU410 Interdisciplinary Research Methods and Design and EU450 Engaging with Europe: Professional Skills, in preparation for the dissertation.
Below is a breakdown of the course option details. (H) is used to denote a 'half unit ' course. You will need two 'half unit' courses to make up a 'full unit'.
Compulsory courses (Paper 1):
EU457 Culture and Security in Global Politics (H)
EU478 The Culture of European Politics (H)
EU410 Interdisciplinary Research Methods and Design
EU450 Engaging with Europe: Professional Skills
Optional Courses:
Paper 2: A combination of courses to the value of one unit from the following:
EU426 The West (H)
EU430 Europeanization: Comparative Politics of Change (H)
EU431 European Integration from a Global Perspective (H)
EU432 Philosophy of Europe (H)
EU437 Europe Beyond Modernity (H)
EU447 Democracy, Ideology and the European State (H)
EU458 Public Policy and Cultural Narratives in a Global Europe (H)
EU460 European Politics and Society beyond the Nation State (H)
EU464 International Migration: EU Policies and Politics (H)
EU474 Contested Ideas in EU Law and Government (H)
EU475 Muslims in Europe (H)
EU476 Turkey in Europe (H)
Paper 3: A combination of Courses to the value of one unit from the following:
GI421 Sexuality, Gender and Culture (H)
GI422 Sexuality, Gender and Globalisation (H)
GV4B9 The Second Europe (H)
GV479 Nationalism (H)
GV498 Multiculturalism
IR452 Empire and Conflict in World Politics
IR461 Islam in International Relations
IR465 The International Politics of Culture and Religion
IR481 Europe, the US and Arab-Israeli Relations (H)
SO479 Human Rights and Postcolonial Theory (H)
A course from Paper 2 that has not already been studied.
Dissertation (Paper 4):
EU499 Dissertation
Students may find further details about course options on the LSE Calendar.