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Postgraduate unit guides

Here are the draft list of unit guides for all the SPAIS postgraduate taught units for academic year 2013/14:

Teaching Block 1 Units (September 2013 - January 2014)

• POLIM1006 Security Governance (pdf, 146kb)
• POLIM1007 Conflict, Security and Development (pdf, 245kb)
• POLIM3012 International Security (pdf, 161kb)
• POLIM3013 Feminisms and International Relations (pdf, 269kb)
• POLIM3014 Theories of International Relations (pdf, 327kb)
• POLIM3015 International Political Economy (pdf, 214kb)
• POLIM3018 Theories of Development (pdf, 98kb)
• POLIM3025 Comparative Research Design (pdf, 167kb)
• POLIM3026 Comparative European Politics (pdf, 215kb)
• POLIM3027 The European Union: Theory, Institutions and Policy (pdf, 238kb)
• POLIM3036 Theoretical Approaches in Security Studies  (pdf, 186kb)
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• SOCIM2106 Globalisation and Culture (pdf 415kb)
• SOCIM2119 Global Ethnicities (pdf 255kb)
• SOCIM3026 Theory & Politics of Multiculturalism (pdf, 94kb)
• SOCIM3101 Contemporary Sociological Theory (pdf,105kb)
• SOCIM3103 Interpreting Gender (pdf, 221kb)
• SOCIM3107 Theories of Ethnicity and Racism
• SOCIM3130 Qualitative Social Research (pdf, 233kb)
• SOCIM3131 Quantitative Social Research (pdf, 513 kb)
• SPAIM0002 East Asia and Global Development (pdf, 100kb)

 

Teaching Block 2 Units (January 2014 -May 2014)

Below is a list of draft options for Teaching Block 2 2013/14

• POLIM1007 Conflict, Security and Development (pdf, 1,132kb)
• POLIM1009 Supervised Individual Study (Politics) (pdf 71.9kb) MPHIL ONLY
• POLIM2030 Small Business Development (pdf, 113kb)
• POLIM2036 Managing and Evaluating Development (pdf, 96kb)
• POLIM2037 Development Skills in Practice (pdf, 90kb)
• POLIM2041 Environmental Politics (pdf, 197kb)
• POLIM2042 Politics of HIV/ AIDS in Africa (pdf, 160kb) Not available 2013/14
• POLIM2044 Governing the Global Borderlands (pdf, 801kb) Not available 2013/14
• POLIM2048 International Development Organisations (pdf, 108kb)
• POLIM3016 Masculinities and IR (pdf, 251kb)
• POLIM3017 Foreign Policy Analysis (pdf, 268kb)
• POLIM3021 Research Methods (pdf, 537kb)
• POLIM3022 Militarisation, Militarism and War (pdf 335kb)
• POLIM3024 Discourse Analysis (pdf, 269kb)
• POLIM3029 US Security Policy
• POLIM3030 International Human Rights
• POLIM3032 Politics of Latin America (pdf, 288kb) Not available 2013/14
• POLIM3033 Sino-US Relations in Global Politics
• POLIM3034 Politics of Genocide
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• SOCIM2113 Culture, Postmodernity and Religion (pdf, 190kb)
• SOCIM2127 Narrating the Self (pdf, 112kb)
• SOCIM2129 Supervised Individual Study (Sociology) (pdf 101kb) MPHIL ONLY
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• SOCIM3132 Advanced Qualitative Research (pdf, 261kb)
• SOCIM3133 Advanced Quantitative Research (pdf, 285kb)

• SOCIM3135 Sociology of Pop Music (pdf 182kb)
• SPAIM0002 East Asia and Global Development (pdf, 159kb)
• SPAIM0005 Japan and East Asia (pdf, 101kb)
• SPAIM0006 East Asia, Europe and Global Integration (pdf 416kb)
• SPAIM0009 Nations and Nationalism (pdf 625kb)
• SPAIM0010 Care, Labour and Gender: International Policy Development (pdf 156kb)
• SPAIM0017 Rethinking the State (pdf, 249kb) Not available 2013/14
• SPAIM0018 Social Class in Contemporary Society (pdf, 215kb)
• SPAIM0019 Global Civil Society (pdf 340kb)
• SPAIM0020 China's International Relations (pdf 301kb)
• SPAIM0022 European Foreign Policy (pdf 647kb)
• SPAIM0023 Religion and Politics in the West (pdf 138kb)
• SPAIM0024 Understanding Risk (pdf 663kb)
• SPAIM0025 Liberalism, Terror and the Politics of Insecurity (pdf 437kb)
• SPAIM0026 Nuclear (In)security (pdf 1.44mb)
• SPAIM0027 Gender and Political Leadership Not available 2013/14

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