The MSc International Relations will provide you with:
One year full-time for students commencing the programme in September; 18 months full-time for students starting the programme in February; two years part time. Three compulsory taught modules; choice of an option module from a choice of six options; research dissertation in a specialist area of your interest.
The MSc International Relations will enhance your research skills and your awareness of issues of conflict, crisis and political tension in the world. This is relevant to the professions, the media and all forms of public service, and graduates can look to a wide range of career paths particularly in the public sector and government, the media and various kinds of developmental agencies and organisations.
You will benefit from the opportunity to work in small groups, to present your work in a supportive environment, from training in research methods and from an active tutorial system.
Applicants are normally required to have a good first degree in a cognate area of study. Under special circumstances, and after interview, applicants without a first degree but with substantial professional experience may be considered.
In the case of applicants whose first language is not English, then IELTS 6.5 (or equivalent) is required. International qualifications will be checked for appropriate matriculation to UK Higher Education postgraduate programmes.
Students that apply to enter stages of the programme may be admitted through normal Accreditation of Experiential Learning (AEL) or Accreditation of Certificated Learning (ACL) processes, or through an approved articulation agreement. Therefore such applicants must be able to demonstrate and evidence that they have the required learning outcomes as listed in the modules for which they are seeking exemption.
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UCAS code N/A
Final award MSc
Intermediate awards available PGDip
Details of professional body accreditation N/A
Relevant QAA Benchmark statements Politics and International Relations
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