MA International Relations 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, combining international relations with Iberian and Latin American cultures. Core topics include Research Methods, Project Management, Communication & Writing, Critical & Analytical Thinking, and Language & Translation. As an integral part of the four-year programme, students spend half of year three developing language skills in a Spanish-speaking country.
Modules
- Getting Started at the University of Aberdeen
- Academic Writing for Language & Literature
- Politics & International Relations 1: Democracy and Governance
- Politics & International Relations 2: Power and Conflict
- Spanish Language 2
- Spanish Language 3
- Encountering the Other in Iberia and the Americas
- Latin America: A Cultural History
- Ideas and Ideologies in Politics and International Relations
- Spanish Language 4
- Latin America: Texts and Contexts
- Spanish Language 6 (SP30A3)
- Researching in the 21st Century
- The Eu: Contemporary Challenges
- US Politics
- Chile and the Long Shadow of Dictatorship
- Employer - Led Interdisciplinary Project
- International Security
- Political Parties in Britain
- Soviet and Post - Soviet Russian Foreign Policy
- Human Rights in Global Politics
- Memory and Politics of the Past
- The Global Politics of Secession
- Democratization
- Spanish Language 7 (SP40A5)
- Dissertation in Spanish
- Dissertation
- Science, Technology & International Relations
- Extreme Right in Western Europe
- International Political Psychology
- Maritime Security
- Political Islam: Islamist Ideologies and Practices
- International Migration and Europe
- Good Governance & Anti - Corruption Policy
- Northern Ireland: Small, Dirty War
- War and Peace in International Politics