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Master of Arts (Honours) International Relations and Spanish


MA (Hons) International Relations (Joint Honours): First Year
Code Module name Credits
Concepts in Global Politics 20 AND
Foreign Policy and Diplomacy in Global Politics 20 AND
Remaining credits from Level 1000 options

Further requirements

Choose 120 credits in the academic year

MA (Hons) Spanish (Joint Honours): First Year
Code Module name Credits
(( Spanish Language and Texts 1 20 AND
Spanish Language and Texts 2 20 ) OR
( Spanish for Beginners 1 20 AND
Spanish for Beginners 2 20 ) AND
Remaining credits from Level 1000 options )

Further requirements

Choose 120 credits in the academic year


MA (Hons) International Relations (Joint Honours): Second Year
Code Module name Credits
Theoretical Approaches to International Relations 20 AND
Studying International Relations 20 AND
Remaining credits from Levels 1000 and 2000 options

Further requirements

Choose 120 credits in the academic year
Choose a minimum of 80 Level 2000 credits

MA (Hons) Spanish (Joint Honours): Second Year
Code Module name Credits
( Spanish Language and Critical Approaches to Texts 1 20 OR
Spanish Language and Texts: ex-Beginners 20 ) AND
Spanish Language and Critical Approaches to Texts 2 20 AND
Remaining credits from Levels 1000 and 2000 options

Further requirements

Choose 120 credits in the academic year
Choose a minimum of 80 Level 2000 credits

Automatic entry to Honours requires

  • An average grade of 7 in all Spanish modules taken.

Entry to Honours

Students who meet the requirements specified above, and who meet all other programme requirements, will be given automatic entry into Honours programmes.

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MA Honours

The general requirements are 480 credits over a period of normally four years (and not more than five years) or part-time equivalent, of which the final two years form an approved Honours programme of 240 credits, of which 90 credits are at 4000 level and at least a further 120 credits at 3000 and/or 4000 levels.


MA (Hons) International Relations (Joint Honours): Third Year
Code Module name Credits
View list Between 30 and 60 credits from Module List : IR3000 - IR3999 AND
International Political Economy 30
International Regimes and Organisations 30
IR3007 Democracy and Democratisation 30
International Terrorism 30
IR3011 Ethics and World Politics 30
Third World in International Development 30
Case Studies in Conflict Analysis 30
International Relations and International Law 30
US Foreign Policy: The Dilemmas of Power 30
IR3024 The Politics of Africa 30
International Security 30
IR3026 Diplomacy and Conflict Intervention 30
IR3029 The Logic of Irregular Warfare 30
IR3030 Human Rights in Theory and Practice 30
Globalisation and the War on Terrorism 30
Globalisation and its Disjunctures 30
IR3033 Post-Conflict Transition in Sub-Saharan Africa 30
IR3036 Independent study in International Relations - Norms in International Relations 30
IR3037 Independent study in International Relations - Political leadership 30
Conflict Management, Settlement, and Resolution 30
International Relations of the European Union 30
International Political Theory 30
IR3042 Representations of Violent Conflict: Research Seminar 30
Approaches to Counter-Terrorism 30
IR3044 Pathways of European State Formation 30
Violence in Deeply-Divided Societies 30
Foreign Policy of Modern China 30
IR3047 Arrested Development? The Politics of Postcolonialism 30
IR3048 Peacekeeping and Humanitarian Intervention 30
IR3049 International History and International Relations 30
IR3050 State, Power, Crime 30
IR3051 International Relations Theory: From Fear to Queer 30
IR3052 The Politics of Violence and Resistance in Latin America 30
IR3053 Peacebuilding and Post-Conflict Transition in Latin America 30
Mapping the Boundaries of Emerging and Evolving Securities 30
IR3055 International Relations and the Internet 30
Political Leadership: Theories and History 30
Armaments and International Relations 30
Armed Forces, Societies and Governments: An International Perspective on Civil-Military Relations 30
Rebellion and Revolution 30
IR3062 The United Nations since 1945 30
Organised Crime and Corruption 30
IR3064 Critical Terrorism Studies 30
IR3065 Refugees and International Relations 30
Emotional Encounters: Diplomacy, Power and Persuasion in World Politics 30
IR3067 The International Criminal Court in World Politics 30
Christianity and World Politics 30
Armed Conflict in Africa 30
Dealing in Darkness? An Anatomy of Realist Thought in International Relations 30
IR3072 New and emerging security threats in the Caucasus and Central Asia 30
International Institutions and Global Challenges 30
IR3074 International Relations of Energy and the Environment 30
IR3075 Leader Personality and Foreign Policy 30
IR3076 Political Economy of Trade and Investment 30
IR3077 The Motives and Enablers of Terrorist Violence 30
Hot Economics, Cold Politics? International Relations of Northeast Asia 30
IR3079 Feminist Theories in Global Politics 30
The Northern Ireland Conflict 30
Russian Politics and Foreign Policy after Communism 30
IR3104 The International Relations of Post-Communist Central and Eastern Europe 30
IR3111 Asian Security 30
IR3113 Gender and Generation 30
Migration in Global Politics: Ethics, Politics, and Practice 30
IR3205 Intelligence and International Relations in the 20th Century and Beyond 30
The Politics of Postcolonial Forests 30
Conflict in the Middle East 30
IR3301 Politics and State Formation in the Middle East 30
IR3302 Democracy and Revolution in North Africa 30
The Arab - Israeli Conflict 30
The International, Modernity and Contemporary Gulf Politics 30
Cyber Security and the Global Politics of the Internet 30
IR3791
Note:
- Not all modules are available in every academic year and/or semester
- Individual modules may have requisites to satisfy to be eligible to select them

For further details, see the entry for each individual module above
View list Between 0 and 30 credits from Module List: IR4100 - IR4999 (excluding IR4794 - IR4795), SD4225
IR4401 Communication in International Relations 15
The Language of Politics 30
IR4514 Global Public Policy 30
IR4516 The International Relations of Sub-Saharan Africa 30
Politics and Development in Southeast Asia 30
IR4522 Critical Approaches to International Security 30
IR4523 The Aftermath of the Wars: Liberal Dilemmas 30
IR4530 Genocide 30
The Cultural Politics of Human Rights 30
IR4535 Theories of Friendship, Solidarity and Peace 30
IR4538 Identities, Belonging and Others 30
IR4540 The Changing Character of War 30
Gender and Terrorism 30
IR4543 Activism and Resistance 30
Wars and Peace in the Caucasus 30
Indian Foreign Policy 30
IR4546 The Psychology of International Security 30
Force and Statecraft 30
IR4550 Art and Conflict 30
IR4552 The Politics of the Environment 30
Europe, America and the Transatlantic 30
IR4554 Global Aesthetics and Politics 30
IR4555 Music, Politics and International Relations 30
IR4556 Politics and Time: Memory, Narrative and Mourning in Group Identity and Conflict 30
IR4560 Faith, Politics, and War: The Augustinian Tradition in IR 30
IR4561 Security as Ethics: Rethinking the Global Polity 30
IR4562 The Political Lives of Objects 30
Rebels, Terrorists, Militias: The Comparative Analysis of Armed Groups 30
Strategic Studies 30
Contemporary Political Theory: from revolution to recognition 30
Comparative regionalism 30
IR4567 The International Criminal Court in World Politics 30
IR4568 International Relations of Energy and the Environment 30
Geopolitics of Energy in the Caspian Region 30
IR4570 Everyday Life and Global Politics 30
IR4571 Conflict and intervention in world politics 30
IR4572 Economy of Anger: Marxism, Psychoanalysis and the Politics of Status 30
IR4573 Global Economic Governance: Visions and Realities 30
Understanding Terrorism 30
IR4575 Queer IR, Queering Global Politics 30
IR4576 The Psychology of Motives in Foreign Policy Analysis 30
Order and Crisis in World Politics 30
The Politics of Nature and Place 30
Race, Caste and the Making of the Modern World 30
IR4580 The Global Politics of European Integration 30
Debates in Terrorism and Political Violence 30
IR4582 Prison Violence & Resistance 30
The International Relations of Outer Space 30
Speculative Fiction and Global Politics 30
Politics of Secession 30
IR4600 Ideologies and Social Movements in the Middle East 30
IR4601 Political Order and Violence in the Middle East 30
IR4602 International Relations of the Middle East 30
IR4604 Political Islam and International Relations 30
IR4606 Propaganda, Persuasion and Information War in the Middle East 30
IR4607 Britain and Iraq 1914-2004 30
Green Politics: theory and practice 30
Note:
- Not all modules are available in every academic year and/or semester
- Individual modules may have requisites to satisfy to be eligible to select them

For further details, see the entry for each individual module above

Further requirements

Choose 120 credits in academic year

Access to up to thirty 4000-level credits requires the permission of the Adviser of Studies.
MA (Hons) Spanish (Joint Honours): Third Year
Code Module name Credits
Spanish Language 1 15 AND
Spanish Language 2 15 AND
View list 30 credits from Module List: SP3000 - SP4299 (except SP4098, SP4099, SP4102), ML3201
Literary Translation 15
SP3011 History of the Spanish Language 15
Spanish Integrated Year Abroad 60
Spanish American Literature I (Gauchos and Indians) 15
SP3122 Spanish American Literature 2 15
Mexico in the Nineteenth Century 15
Post-1975 Writing in Spain 1 15
The Art of Subversion in Post-War Spain (1939-1975) 15
The Argentine and Chilean Avant-Garde (1920s-1930s) 15
SP3157 Autobiographical Writing in Twentieth-Century Spain 15
Representations of the Urban: Twentieth-Century Buenos Aires 15
Facing the New: Spanish Literature and Society (1888 - 1918) 15
SP3162 Strange Girls and Domestic Angels: Women's Writing in Spain 15
Tales of the Nation 15
Love and Loss 15
SP4012 Linguistic Study of the Spanish Language 15
SP4013 Culture and Conflict: Representing the Spanish Civil War 15
Spanish Avant-garde(s) 15
SP4015 Action Heroes and Anti-heroes in Early-Modern Spain 15
Contemporary Galician Women Writers 15
(R)evolutions in Early Modern Love Lyric: Perilous, Provocative, Parodic 15
Spanish American Urban Landscapes in the Eyes of Contemporary Chroniclers 15
Guerreras: Women and Emancipation(s) in Colombian Cinema 15
Women in motion: Gender and mobilities in Latin American contemporary literature 15
SP4031
History and Culture in Spanish Texts 15
Reality and Illusion 15
Note:
- Not all modules are available in every academic year and/or semester
- Individual modules may have requisites to satisfy to be eligible to select them

For further details, see the entry for each individual module above

Further requirements

Choose 120 credits in academic year

Subject to the approval of any other School involved, one year or one semester may be spent in Study Abroad on a recognised Exchange scheme.

For Joint Honours degrees where both subjects are in the School of Modern Languages, the minimum requirement in each subject is 90 credits and the maximum allowed in one subject is 150 credits.

For Joint Honours degrees involving another School the normal requirement is 120 credits in each subject.



MA (Hons) International Relations (Joint Honours): Fourth Year
Code Module name Credits
View list Between 30 and 60 credits from Module List: IR4000 - IR4999, ID4002, SD4225 AND
Honours Dissertation in International Relations 60
IR4401 Communication in International Relations 15
The Language of Politics 30
IR4514 Global Public Policy 30
IR4516 The International Relations of Sub-Saharan Africa 30
Politics and Development in Southeast Asia 30
IR4522 Critical Approaches to International Security 30
IR4523 The Aftermath of the Wars: Liberal Dilemmas 30
IR4530 Genocide 30
The Cultural Politics of Human Rights 30
IR4535 Theories of Friendship, Solidarity and Peace 30
IR4538 Identities, Belonging and Others 30
IR4540 The Changing Character of War 30
Gender and Terrorism 30
IR4543 Activism and Resistance 30
Wars and Peace in the Caucasus 30
Indian Foreign Policy 30
IR4546 The Psychology of International Security 30
Force and Statecraft 30
IR4550 Art and Conflict 30
IR4552 The Politics of the Environment 30
Europe, America and the Transatlantic 30
IR4554 Global Aesthetics and Politics 30
IR4555 Music, Politics and International Relations 30
IR4556 Politics and Time: Memory, Narrative and Mourning in Group Identity and Conflict 30
IR4560 Faith, Politics, and War: The Augustinian Tradition in IR 30
IR4561 Security as Ethics: Rethinking the Global Polity 30
IR4562 The Political Lives of Objects 30
Rebels, Terrorists, Militias: The Comparative Analysis of Armed Groups 30
Strategic Studies 30
Contemporary Political Theory: from revolution to recognition 30
Comparative regionalism 30
IR4567 The International Criminal Court in World Politics 30
IR4568 International Relations of Energy and the Environment 30
Geopolitics of Energy in the Caspian Region 30
IR4570 Everyday Life and Global Politics 30
IR4571 Conflict and intervention in world politics 30
IR4572 Economy of Anger: Marxism, Psychoanalysis and the Politics of Status 30
IR4573 Global Economic Governance: Visions and Realities 30
Understanding Terrorism 30
IR4575 Queer IR, Queering Global Politics 30
IR4576 The Psychology of Motives in Foreign Policy Analysis 30
Order and Crisis in World Politics 30
The Politics of Nature and Place 30
Race, Caste and the Making of the Modern World 30
IR4580 The Global Politics of European Integration 30
Debates in Terrorism and Political Violence 30
IR4582 Prison Violence & Resistance 30
The International Relations of Outer Space 30
Speculative Fiction and Global Politics 30
Politics of Secession 30
IR4600 Ideologies and Social Movements in the Middle East 30
IR4601 Political Order and Violence in the Middle East 30
IR4602 International Relations of the Middle East 30
IR4604 Political Islam and International Relations 30
IR4606 Propaganda, Persuasion and Information War in the Middle East 30
IR4607 Britain and Iraq 1914-2004 30
IR4795 Joint Dissertation (60cr) 60
Communication and Teaching in Arts and Humanities 15
Green Politics: theory and practice 30
Note:
- Not all modules are available in every academic year and/or semester
- Individual modules may have requisites to satisfy to be eligible to select them

For further details, see the entry for each individual module above
View list Between 0 and 30 credits from Module List : IR3000 - IR3999
International Political Economy 30
International Regimes and Organisations 30
IR3007 Democracy and Democratisation 30
International Terrorism 30
IR3011 Ethics and World Politics 30
Third World in International Development 30
Case Studies in Conflict Analysis 30
International Relations and International Law 30
US Foreign Policy: The Dilemmas of Power 30
IR3024 The Politics of Africa 30
International Security 30
IR3026 Diplomacy and Conflict Intervention 30
IR3029 The Logic of Irregular Warfare 30
IR3030 Human Rights in Theory and Practice 30
Globalisation and the War on Terrorism 30
Globalisation and its Disjunctures 30
IR3033 Post-Conflict Transition in Sub-Saharan Africa 30
IR3036 Independent study in International Relations - Norms in International Relations 30
IR3037 Independent study in International Relations - Political leadership 30
Conflict Management, Settlement, and Resolution 30
International Relations of the European Union 30
International Political Theory 30
IR3042 Representations of Violent Conflict: Research Seminar 30
Approaches to Counter-Terrorism 30
IR3044 Pathways of European State Formation 30
Violence in Deeply-Divided Societies 30
Foreign Policy of Modern China 30
IR3047 Arrested Development? The Politics of Postcolonialism 30
IR3048 Peacekeeping and Humanitarian Intervention 30
IR3049 International History and International Relations 30
IR3050 State, Power, Crime 30
IR3051 International Relations Theory: From Fear to Queer 30
IR3052 The Politics of Violence and Resistance in Latin America 30
IR3053 Peacebuilding and Post-Conflict Transition in Latin America 30
Mapping the Boundaries of Emerging and Evolving Securities 30
IR3055 International Relations and the Internet 30
Political Leadership: Theories and History 30
Armaments and International Relations 30
Armed Forces, Societies and Governments: An International Perspective on Civil-Military Relations 30
Rebellion and Revolution 30
IR3062 The United Nations since 1945 30
Organised Crime and Corruption 30
IR3064 Critical Terrorism Studies 30
IR3065 Refugees and International Relations 30
Emotional Encounters: Diplomacy, Power and Persuasion in World Politics 30
IR3067 The International Criminal Court in World Politics 30
Christianity and World Politics 30
Armed Conflict in Africa 30
Dealing in Darkness? An Anatomy of Realist Thought in International Relations 30
IR3072 New and emerging security threats in the Caucasus and Central Asia 30
International Institutions and Global Challenges 30
IR3074 International Relations of Energy and the Environment 30
IR3075 Leader Personality and Foreign Policy 30
IR3076 Political Economy of Trade and Investment 30
IR3077 The Motives and Enablers of Terrorist Violence 30
Hot Economics, Cold Politics? International Relations of Northeast Asia 30
IR3079 Feminist Theories in Global Politics 30
The Northern Ireland Conflict 30
Russian Politics and Foreign Policy after Communism 30
IR3104 The International Relations of Post-Communist Central and Eastern Europe 30
IR3111 Asian Security 30
IR3113 Gender and Generation 30
Migration in Global Politics: Ethics, Politics, and Practice 30
IR3205 Intelligence and International Relations in the 20th Century and Beyond 30
The Politics of Postcolonial Forests 30
Conflict in the Middle East 30
IR3301 Politics and State Formation in the Middle East 30
IR3302 Democracy and Revolution in North Africa 30
The Arab - Israeli Conflict 30
The International, Modernity and Contemporary Gulf Politics 30
Cyber Security and the Global Politics of the Internet 30
IR3791
Note:
- Not all modules are available in every academic year and/or semester
- Individual modules may have requisites to satisfy to be eligible to select them

For further details, see the entry for each individual module above

Further requirements

Choose 120 credits in academic year

Access to up to thirty 3000-level credits requires the permission of the Adviser of Studies.
MA (Hons) Spanish (Joint Honours): Fourth Year
Code Module name Credits
(( Spanish Language 3 15 AND
Spanish Language 4: Communication Skills 15 AND
View list 30 credits from Module List: SP3000 - SP4299 (excluding SP4102), ML3201, ID4002 (by interview) ) OR
Literary Translation 15
SP3011 History of the Spanish Language 15
Spanish Integrated Year Abroad 60
Spanish American Literature I (Gauchos and Indians) 15
SP3122 Spanish American Literature 2 15
Mexico in the Nineteenth Century 15
Post-1975 Writing in Spain 1 15
The Art of Subversion in Post-War Spain (1939-1975) 15
The Argentine and Chilean Avant-Garde (1920s-1930s) 15
SP3157 Autobiographical Writing in Twentieth-Century Spain 15
Representations of the Urban: Twentieth-Century Buenos Aires 15
Facing the New: Spanish Literature and Society (1888 - 1918) 15
SP3162 Strange Girls and Domestic Angels: Women's Writing in Spain 15
Tales of the Nation 15
Love and Loss 15
SP4012 Linguistic Study of the Spanish Language 15
SP4013 Culture and Conflict: Representing the Spanish Civil War 15
Spanish Avant-garde(s) 15
SP4015 Action Heroes and Anti-heroes in Early-Modern Spain 15
Contemporary Galician Women Writers 15
(R)evolutions in Early Modern Love Lyric: Perilous, Provocative, Parodic 15
Spanish American Urban Landscapes in the Eyes of Contemporary Chroniclers 15
Guerreras: Women and Emancipation(s) in Colombian Cinema 15
Women in motion: Gender and mobilities in Latin American contemporary literature 15
SP4031
Dissertation on a Spanish Topic 15
History and Culture in Spanish Texts 15
Reality and Illusion 15
Communication and Teaching in Arts and Humanities 15
Long Dissertation on a Spanish Topic 30
Joint Dissertation (30cr) 30
Note:
- Not all modules are available in every academic year and/or semester
- Individual modules may have requisites to satisfy to be eligible to select them

For further details, see the entry for each individual module above
( View list 30 credits from Module List: SP4003, SP4004, SP4102 AND
Spanish Language 3 15
Spanish Language 4: Communication Skills 15
Semester with Study Abroad in Spain 30
Note:
- Not all modules are available in every academic year and/or semester
- Individual modules may have requisites to satisfy to be eligible to select them

For further details, see the entry for each individual module above
( Long Dissertation on a Spanish Topic 30 OR
View list 30 credits from Joint Project (60cr) ) AND
Note:
- Not all modules are available in every academic year and/or semester
- Individual modules may have requisites to satisfy to be eligible to select them

For further details, see the entry for each individual module above
View list 15 credits from Module List: SP3000 - SP4299 (excluding SP4102), ML3201, ID4002 (by interview) ))
Literary Translation 15
SP3011 History of the Spanish Language 15
Spanish Integrated Year Abroad 60
Spanish American Literature I (Gauchos and Indians) 15
SP3122 Spanish American Literature 2 15
Mexico in the Nineteenth Century 15
Post-1975 Writing in Spain 1 15
The Art of Subversion in Post-War Spain (1939-1975) 15
The Argentine and Chilean Avant-Garde (1920s-1930s) 15
SP3157 Autobiographical Writing in Twentieth-Century Spain 15
Representations of the Urban: Twentieth-Century Buenos Aires 15
Facing the New: Spanish Literature and Society (1888 - 1918) 15
SP3162 Strange Girls and Domestic Angels: Women's Writing in Spain 15
Tales of the Nation 15
Love and Loss 15
SP4012 Linguistic Study of the Spanish Language 15
SP4013 Culture and Conflict: Representing the Spanish Civil War 15
Spanish Avant-garde(s) 15
SP4015 Action Heroes and Anti-heroes in Early-Modern Spain 15
Contemporary Galician Women Writers 15
(R)evolutions in Early Modern Love Lyric: Perilous, Provocative, Parodic 15
Spanish American Urban Landscapes in the Eyes of Contemporary Chroniclers 15
Guerreras: Women and Emancipation(s) in Colombian Cinema 15
Women in motion: Gender and mobilities in Latin American contemporary literature 15
SP4031
Dissertation on a Spanish Topic 15
History and Culture in Spanish Texts 15
Reality and Illusion 15
Communication and Teaching in Arts and Humanities 15
Long Dissertation on a Spanish Topic 30
Joint Dissertation (30cr) 30
Note:
- Not all modules are available in every academic year and/or semester
- Individual modules may have requisites to satisfy to be eligible to select them

For further details, see the entry for each individual module above

Further requirements

Choose 120 credits in academic year

Subject to the approval of any other School involved, one year or one semester may be spent in Study Abroad on a recognised Exchange scheme

Access to the pathway with SP4004 and SP4102 requires the permission of the School of the Joint Subject.


For Joint Honours degrees where both subjects are in the School of Modern Languages, the minimum requirement in each subject is 90 credits and the maximum allowed in one subject is 150 credits.

For Joint Honours degrees involving another School the normal requirement is 120 credits in each subject.



Study abroad

In the case of students who spend part of the Honours programme on a recognised Study Abroad scheme, the Programme Requirements will be amended to take into account overseas courses which are approved by the relevant 91¹û¶³ÊÓÆµ School in the Learning Agreement (see ).