MA Politics and Spanish & Latin American Studies
Entry requirements
A level: BBC IB: 32 points including 5, 5, 5 at HL. SL in English is also required. SQA Highers: BBBB. BTEC Level 3 Extended Diploma: DMM in related subjects. Note: BTEC Level 3 Extended Certificate (Subsidiary Diploma) achieved at Distinction level, is normally acceptable in lieu of one A Level at grade B.) GCSE English (or equivalent) is required at Grade C/4 or above. GCSE Mathematics at Grade C/4 is also required for Accountancy, Economics and Finance programmes. Irish Leaving Certificate: Five subjects at Higher at H3.
About this course
MA in Politics and International Relations and Spanish, Portuguese and Latin American Studies. Core topics include Research Methods, Project Management, Communication & Writing, Critical & Analytical Thinking, and Language & Translation. As part of the four-year programme, students spend half of the third year abroad in a Spanish-speaking country as a teaching assistant or visiting student.
Modules
- Academic Writing for Language & Literature
- Getting Started at the University of Aberdeen
- Politics & International Relations 1: Democracy and Governance
- Politics & International Relations 2: Power and Conflict
- Spanish Language 2
- Spanish Language 3
- Spain and Spanish America: History, Culture, Politics
- The Global City in Text and Film
- Ideas and Ideologies in Politics and International Relations
- Spanish Language 4
- Latin America: Texts and Contexts
- Spanish Language 6 (SP30A3)
- Research Methods in Politics and International Relations
- Employer - Led Interdisciplinary Project
- International Security
- Political Parties in Britain
- Soviet and Post - Soviet Russian Foreign Policy
- International Terrorism Counterterrorism & International Relations
- Memory and Politics of the Past
- Human Rights in Global Politics
- The Global Politics of Secession
- Spanish Language 7 (SP40A5)
- Dissertation in Spanish
- Dissertation
- Contemporary French Politics: Race, Religion and Social Change B
- Science, Technology & International Relations
- War and Peace in International Politics
- International Political Psychology
- Scottish Politics
- Comparative Constitutional Systems
- Extreme Right in Western Europe
- Maritime Security
- Political Islam: Islamist Ideologies and Practices
- International Migration and Europe
- Gender and Politics
- Northern Ireland: Small, Dirty War
- Corruption and Good Governance
- US Presidents