MSc Political Theory

Full-year programme. Students must take 2 course units, a compulsory course (1 unit) and dissertation (1 unit) as shown. Part-time students may take up to four half unit courses in their first year.

Paper

Course number and title

1, 2, 3, 4 & 5

Courses to the value of 2 units but no more than 1.5 units in any one term:

 

GI406

Feminist Political Theory (H) (n/a 13/14)

GV408

Contemporary Disputes about Justice (H) 

 

GV476

Twentieth-Century European Liberal Thought (H)

GV498

Multiculturalism (H)

GV4A3

Social Choice Theory and Democracy (H)

GV4B6

Kant's Political Philosophy (H)

GV4B7

The Liberal Idea of Freedom (H)

 

GV4D7

Dilemmas of Equality (H)

GV4F5

Advanced Political Thinkers (H)

GV4F6

The Philosophy and Politics of Environmental Change (n/a 13/14)

GV4G7

Marx and Marxism (H)

GV4H1

Chinese Political Thought (H)

 

Students can take courses to the value of one full unit from the following:

 

IR462

Introduction to International Political Theory (H)

IR463

The International Political Theory of Humanitarian Intervention (H) (n/a 13/14)

 

IR464

The Politics of International Law (H)

PH416

Philosophy, Morals and Politics

 

A half-unit course from the Government or another department §

6

GV4G3

Foundations of Political Theory

7

GV499

Dissertation

Notes

§ means by special permission only.