Professional development course

EU450 Engaging with Europe: Professional Skills (0.0)

Paper 1

Foundation

EU490 Evidence and Analysis in Policy-Making (0.5) (withdrawn 2024/25)

(OR)Students who can demonstrate equivalent prior knowledge of EU490 Evidence and Analysis in Policy-Making may instead take the below course, subject to Programme Director approval:

MY452L Applied Regression Analysis (0.5) # (withdrawn 2023/24)

MY452M Applied Regression Analysis (0.5) # (withdrawn 2023/24)

Paper 2

Students with limited background in European politics and policy-making or economics are strongly encouraged to take one or both of the following to support their studies:

EU409 Basic Economic Concepts for European Political Economy (0.0) (withdrawn 2024/25)

EU4V9 Concepts in Political Science and Public Policy (0.0) (withdrawn 2024/25)

Courses to the value of 1.0 unit(s) from the following:

EU487 European Integration from a Global Governance Perspective (0.5)

EU488 European Policy-Making and International Cooperation (0.5)

EU489 Analytical Politics and Policymaking in Europe (0.5)

Paper 3

Optional courses Courses to the value of 1.5 units from the following: 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. Courses from the heading 'Methods' cannot result in a specialism.

Public Policy & Policy-Making in Europe

EU421 Policy-Making in the European Union (0.5) #

EU425 Interest Representation and Economic Policy- Making in Europe (0.5) (withdrawn 2022/23)

EU464 International Migration: EU Policies and Politics (0.5) #

EU468 The Political Economy of Migration in Europe (0.5) # (withdrawn 2024/25)

EU489 Analytical Politics and Policymaking in Europe (0.5)

EU4A1 The EU and the Global South: Geopolitics, Security and Development (0.5)

GV477 Comparative Public Policy Change (0.5) #

GV4A5 International Migration and Immigration Management (0.5) (withdrawn 2023/24)

LL4CS Law and Economics of Network Industries (0.5)

Democracy and Governance in Europe

EU421 Policy-Making in the European Union (0.5) #

EU430 Europeanisation: Transformation in Europe and its Neighbourhood (0.5)

EU475 Europe and the Politics of Secularism (0.5)

EU488 European Policy-Making and International Cooperation (0.5)

EU4A5 People and Politics in Europe (0.5)

GV450 European Politics: Comparative Analysis (0.5) (withdrawn 2023/24)

GV454 Parties, Elections and Governments (0.5)

GV4A2 Citizens' Political Behaviour: Elections, Public Opinion and Identities (0.5) #

GV4E8 Power Sharing and Institutional Design in Divided Societies (0.5)

GV4J4 Citizen Representation and Democracy in the European Union (0.5) (suspended 2025/26)

GV4K1 Participatory Governance (0.5)

HY411 European Integration in the Twentieth Century (1.0) #

LL4BG Rethinking EU Law (0.5) #

LL4BH Law and Government of the European Union (0.5) #

European and International Political Economy

EU439 Political and Fiscal Integration and Disintegration in EU Member States (0.5) (withdrawn 2022/23)

EU446 The Political Economy of European Monetary Integration (0.5)

EU453 The Political Economy of Welfare States and Migration in Europe (0.5)

EU468 The Political Economy of Migration in Europe (0.5) # (withdrawn 2024/25)

EU477 Labour Markets and the Political Economy of Employment in Europe (0.5) #

EU482 Europe in World Trade (0.5)

EU4A4 The Politics of Inequality and Redistribution (0.5)

GI415 Gender and Welfare Regimes: Developments and Change (0.5)

LL4CS Law and Economics of Network Industries (0.5)

Europe in the International System

EU449 Emerging Markets, Political Transition and Economic Development in Central and Eastern Europe (0.5) (withdrawn 2024/25)

EU457 Culture and Security in Global Politics (0.5)

EU478 The Culture of European Politics (0.5)

EU484 Europe's Role in Global Migration Governance (0.5)

EU485 Post-Conflict Justice and Reconciliation in Europe and Beyond (0.5)

EU487 European Integration from a Global Governance Perspective (0.5)

IR416 The EU in the World (1.0) # (suspended 2025/26)

IR434 European Defence and Security (0.5)

LL468 European Human Rights Law (0.5) (suspended 2025/26)

Regional and Domestic Politics

EU440 The Balkans in Europe: Transition, Democratisation, Integration (0.5)

EU449 Emerging Markets, Political Transition and Economic Development in Central and Eastern Europe (0.5) (withdrawn 2024/25)

EU476 Emotions and Memory in European Politics (0.5)

EU4A2 Globalisation, Conflict and Post-Conflict Reconstruction (0.5)

EU4A3 The Americas and Europe (0.5)

GV439 Government and Politics in Central and Eastern Europe (0.5)

GV4B9 The Second Europe (0.5)

LL4Z5 State Aid and Subsidies Regulation (0.5)

Methods

MY421L Qualitative Research Methods (0.5) (withdrawn 2023/24)

MY421M Qualitative Research Methods (0.5) (withdrawn 2023/24)

MY451L Introduction to Quantitative Analysis (0.5) (withdrawn 2023/24)

MY451M Introduction to Quantitative Analysis (0.5) (withdrawn 2023/24)

MY452L Applied Regression Analysis (0.5) # (withdrawn 2023/24)

MY452M Applied Regression Analysis (0.5) # (withdrawn 2023/24)

Paper 4

Choose from one of the following:

EU495 Applied Policy Project (1.0)

EU499 Dissertation (1.0)