MSc in EU Politics

Programme code: TMEUPOL

Students must take courses to the value of three units and a dissertation as shown. Additionally, all students must take EU465 Research Methods and Design in EU Politics, and if their timetable allows, EU450 European Union: Contemporary Issues, in preparation for the dissertation.

Paper

Course number and title

Part I: Foundation

1

Students must choose two out of the following three courses:

 

EU421

Policy-Making in the European Union (H) (cannot be taken with IR431)

 

EU435

History and Theory of European Integration (H)

 

IR416

The EU in the World

Part II: Optional courses

2 & 3

Any courses which in combination with the foundation courses bring the total list of courses to the value of three units. If students wish their optional courses to result in a degree specialism, their chosen optional courses must come to a total value of at least one full unit from that specialism. Only one specialism is permitted. Courses from the heading 'Methods' cannot result in a specialism.

 

Policy Making and Public Policy in the European Union

EU446

The Political Economy of European Monetary Integration (H)

EU464

International Migration: EU Policies and Politics (H)

EU473

Informal Governance (H) (n/a 15/16)

GV477

Comparative Public Policy Change (H)

GV4A5

International Migration and Immigration Management (H)

GV4C6

Legislative Politics: European Parliament (H)

SA4F7

The Economics of European Social Policy (H) (n/a 15/16)

SA4M1

Politics of Social Policy: Welfare and Work in Comparative Perspective (H) (n/a 15/16) 

Integration and Forms of Governance in the European Union

EU420

European Union Law and Government (H)

EU430

Europeanisation: The Comparative Politics of Domestic Change (H)

EU431

European Integration from a Global Perspective (H) (n/a 15/16) 

EU464

International Migration: EU Policies and Politics (H)

EU473

Informal Governance (H)

EU474

Contested Ideas in EU Law and Government (H) (n/a 15/16)

GV403

Network Regulation (H) †

HY411

European Integration in the Twentieth Century

Democracy and Representation in the European Union

EU425

Interest Representation and Economic Policy-Making in Europe (H)

EU460

European Society and Politics beyond the Nation State (H) 

EU475

Muslims in Europe (H)

GV450

European Politics: Comparative Analysis (H)

GV454

Parties, Elections and Governments (H)

GV4A2

Citizens' Political Behaviour in Europe: Elections, Public Opinion, and Identities (H) (n/a 15/16) 

GV4C6

Legislative Politics: European Parliament (H)

GV4D4

The Politics of Inequality and Redistribution (H)

GV4E8

Conflict and Institutional Design in Divided Societies (H) (n/a 15/16) 

GV4J4

Citizen Representation and Democracy in the European Union (H) (formerly EU466)

HY411

European Integration in the Twentieth Century

State and Economy within the European Union

EU425

Interest Representation and Economic Policy-Making in Europe (H)

EU434

The Political Economy of Southeast Europe (H)

EU439

Political and Fiscal Integration and Disintegration in EU Member States (H)

EU446

The Political Economy of European Monetary Integration (H)

EU449

Emerging Markets, Political Transition and Economic Development in Central and Eastern Europe (H) †

EU453

The Political Economy of European Welfare States (H) †

EU477

Labour Markets and the Political Economy of Employment in Europe (H)

GV4C5

Politics of Economic Policy (H)

GV4D4

The Politics of Inequality and Redistribution (H)

SA4L1

The Governance of Welfare: The Nation State and the European Union (H)

SA4L2

Contemporary Issues in European Social Policy (n/a 15/16) 

Ideas of Europe

EU424

The Idea of Europe (H)

EU426

The West: Identity and Interests (H) (n/a 15/16)

EU432

The Philosophy of Europe (H) (n/a 15/16)

EU437

Europe Beyond Modernity (H) (n/a 15/16)

EU460

European Society and Politics beyond the Nation State (H) 

EU463

European Human Rights Law (H)

EU475

Muslims in Europe (H)

GV4A2

Citizens' Political Behaviour in Europe: Elections, Public Opinion, and Identities (H) (n/a 15/16) 

Regional and Domestic Politics in Europe

EU434

The Political Economy of Southeast Europe (H)

EU440

Greece and South-East Europe: Government, Economy and Foreign Policy (H)

EU449

Emerging Markets, Political Transition and Economic Development in Central and Eastern Europe (H) †

EU476

Turkey and Europe (H)

GV439

Government and Politics in Central and Eastern Europe (H)

GV450

European Politics: Comparative Analysis (H)

GV4B9

The Second Europe (H)

LL4Z5

EU State Aid Law (H)

The International Relations of Europe

EU431

European Integration from a Global Perspective (H) (n/a 15/16) 

EU457

Ethnic Diversity and International Society (H)

EU476

Turkey and Europe (H)

IR411

Foreign Policy Analysis III

IR412

International Institutions

IR431

EU Policy-Making in a Global Context (H) (cannot be taken with EU421) (n/a 15/16) 

IR433

The International Politics of EU Enlargement (H)

IR434

European Defence and Security (H)

IR481

Europe, the US and Arab-Israeli Relations (H)

IR482

Russia and Eurasia: Foreign and Security Policies (n/a 15/16)

Methods

MY451M or MY451L Introduction to Quantitative Analysis (H)

MY452M or MY452L Applied Regression Analysis (H)

Part III: Dissertation

4

EU498

Dissertation

Notes

† Students who wish to take this course must seek approval from the convenor of the course.