MA International Relations and Language & Linguistics
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 Linguistics, examining global governance alongside the structure and social role of human language. Core topics include Research Methods, Project Management, Communication & Writing, and Critical & Analytical Thinking. Students complete an independent dissertation project and participate in an employer-led interdisciplinary consultancy project.
Modules
- Academic Writing for Social Sciences
- Getting Started at the University of Aberdeen
- Politics & International Relations 1: Democracy and Governance
- Politics & International Relations 2: Power and Conflict
- Language Structure and use
- Living Language
- English Past and Present
- Ideas and Ideologies in Politics and International Relations
- Global Politics: Equality and Inequality
- Language in Society
- Elements of English
- 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
- Dissertation
- 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
- Dissertation in Language and Linguistics
- Contemporary French Politics: Race, Religion and Social Change B
- Science, Technology & International Relations
- War and Peace in International Politics
- International Political Psychology
- Scottish Politics