Graduate Diploma in Politics and International Relations
Duration: one year full time, two years part time
General Information
The graduate diploma is an entry degree programme, in which students with professional backgrounds or students with not closely related prior degrees can enter the programme.
They can choose modules from the broad list of SPIRe courses.
Depending on their performance, aspirations and selection of modules, students can transfer from the graduate diploma into the MA in the subject area in which they specialised.
Structure
The Graduate Diploma in Politics and International Relations is a 60-credit programme.
Full time students must take three 10-credit modules in the first semester and three 10-credit modules in the second semester.
Part time students take a total of 60-credits over the two-year duration of the part-time programme. It is advisable for students to take the core modules in Year 1.
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POL40050 Theories of International Relations (10 credits) POL40100 Politics of Development (10 credits) POL40140 International Political Theory (10 credits) POL40320 Africa in Crisis? (10 credits) POL40360 International Security (10 credits) POL40390 Northern Ireland (10 credits) POL40540 Comparative European Politics (10 credits) POL40780 Human and Economic Development (10 credits) POL41030 Theory of Human Rights (10 credits) POL41420 Dissertation Design (5 credits) POL41400 Qualitative Methods (5 credits) POL41410 Introduction to Research Design (5 credits) GEOG40430 US Foreign Policy (10 credits) GEOG40470 International Economic Crisis (10 credits) PHIL40350 Law, Liberty & the State (10 credits) PHIL40840 Autonomy as a Phil Problem (10 credits) LAW40780 Law of the ECHR (10 credits) LAW40940 EU External Relations Law (10 credits) |
POL40130 Development and Global Justice (10 credits) POL40160 Comparative Public Policy (10 credits) POL40260 Comparative Ethnic Conflict (10 credits) POL40370 International Political Economy (10 credits) POL40380 Ethnicity and Conflict (10 credits) POL40550 Debates on Citizenship (10 credits) POL40610 EU and Foreign Security Policy (10 credits) POL40820 Governing the Global Economy (10 credits) POL41020 Politics of Human Rights (10 credits) POL41370 Descriptive Statistics (5 credits) POL41370 Inferential Statistics (5 credits) POL 41510 Middle East & North Africa (10 credits) SBUS40070 wege (MEconSc)(10 credits ) GEOG40450 Political Geography of Europe (10 credits) GEOG40550 Evolutionary Economic Geog (10 credits) GEOG40970 Politics European Governance (10 credits) PHIL40420 The Good Society (10 credits) LAW41040 Law and Governance of the EU (10 credits) LAW40790 International Human Rights (10 credits) EQUL40050 Political Theory of Equality (10 credits)
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N.B. This list of modules is correct at the time of going to press, but there may be minor alterations in the event of unforeseen circumstances.
Module descriptor:
http://www.ucd.ie/students/course_search.htm (search by school: School of Politics and International Relations; Level 4)