MSc in Political Theory

Programme code: TMPOTY

Department: Government

This information is for the 2017/18 session.

Guidelines for interpreting programme regulations
Classification scheme for the award of a taught master's degree (four units)
Exam sub-board local rules

Full-year programme. Students must take 2.5 course units, a compulsory course (0.5 units) and dissertation (1 unit) as shown. Part-time students may take up to four half unit courses in their first year.

Paper

Course number and title

1, 2, 3, 4 & 5

Courses to the value of 2.5 units but no more than 1.5 units in any one term:

 

GV408

Contemporary Disputes about Justice (H)

GV442

Globalisation and Democracy (H) (not available 2017/18)

GV476

Twentieth-Century European Liberal Thought (H) (withdrawn 2017/18)

GV498

Multiculturalism (H) (not available 2017/18)

GV4A3

Social Choice Theory and Democracy (H) (not available 2017/18)

GV4B6

Kant's Political Philosophy (H)

GV4B7

The Liberal Idea of Freedom (H)

 

GV4D7

Dilemmas of Equality (H)

GV4F5

Advanced Study of Key Political Thinkers (H)

GV4F7

The Political Theory of Jurgen Habermas (H) (withdrawn 2017/18)

GV4G7

Marx and Marxism (H)

GV4H1

Chinese Political Thought (H) (not available 2017/18)

GV4H3

Feminist Political Theory (H)

GV4H5

The Politics and Philosophy of Environmental Change (H)

GV4M6

Modern African Political Philosophy (H)

 

Students can take courses to the value of one full unit from the following:

 

IR462

Introduction to International Political Theory (H)

IR463

The International Political Theory of Humanitarian Intervention (H) (withdrawn 2017/18)

 

IR464

The Politics of International Law (H)

PH416

Philosophy, Morals and Politics

 

A half-unit course from the Government or another department §

6

GV4H4

Foundations of Political Theory (H)

7

GV499

Dissertation

Notes

§ means by special permission only.