Postgraduate taught courses

Graduate Institute of Political and International Studies

The Graduate Institute of Political and International Studies (GIPIS) brings together expertise from across a number of Departments at the University. Our teaching and research activities cover important aspects of: European political and economic integration and culture, diplomacy, international politics, international law, globalisation strategy and defence, security and terrorism, arms control and no-proliferation, trade, international political economy, development, the Middle East, political theory and public ethics.

The Institute offers the following taught MA degree courses:

• MA International Relations
• MA International Relations (Diplomacy)
• MA International Relations (International Law and World Order)
• MA International Relations (Security Studies)
• MA International Relations (Strategic Studies)

All GIPIS MA courses have ESRC 1+3 Recognition for full and part-time study.

GIPIS offers a modular system. Students need to accumulate 180 credits in total. Each MA programme has at least one compulsory core module. For example:

• *1 core module (30 credits) + 3 optional modules of 30 credits + dissertation.

For the MA in Strategic Studies there are 3 core modules which would leave 1 optional module and the dissertation.