MA Geography and International Relations
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 Geography, combining political studies with the science of the Earth's surface and human-environment interactions over four undergraduate years. Core topics include Statistics, Research Methods, Fieldwork, Project Management, Communication & Writing, and Critical & Analytical Thinking. Students complete an Honours dissertation involving independent research on an approved topic under academic supervision.
Modules
- Academic Writing for Social Sciences
- Getting Started at the University of Aberdeen
- Creating the Anthropocene
- Politics & International Relations 1: Democracy and Governance
- The UN Sustainable Development Goals: Transforming Our World
- Politics & International Relations 2: Power and Conflict
- Space, Economy and Society
- Ideas and Ideologies in Politics and International Relations
- Skills and Techniques in Geosciences
- Global Politics: Equality and Inequality
- Physical Environments
- Environment and Society
- Mapping and Monitoring the Environment
- Approaches to Geography
- Research Design
- US Politics
- Employer - Led Interdisciplinary Project
- International Security
- Political Parties in Britain
- Soviet and Post - Soviet Russian Foreign Policy
- Memory and Politics of the Past
- Human Rights in Global Politics
- The Global Politics of Secession
- Geography Dissertation
- Geographical Issues
- Science, Technology & International Relations
- International Political Psychology
- Political Islam: Islamist Ideologies and Practices
- International Migration and Europe
- Northern Ireland: Small, Dirty War