MA International Political Economy (Research) / Course details
Year of entry: 2021
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Course description
More recently, International Political Economy has become an especially productive field for critical social science research into pressing global issues, such as: world poverty, inequality, gender relations, economic crises, and the environment.
The MA in International Political Economy at Manchester, reflects the research interests and strengths of our specialists in the Politics discipline area, and focuses on introducing you to a broad range of orthodox and critical theories, and to the politics of globalisation today, through two compulsory units.
You can also take a range of optional course units that examine specific issues relating to:
- global governance;
- development and inequality;
- gender;
- environmental politics;
- global production and work;
- finance (or financialisation);
- capitalist diversity;
- ideology (including neoliberalism);
- economic crisis;
- the politics of resistance and revolt.
Teaching and learning
Part-time students complete the full-time course over two years. There are no evening or weekend course units available on the part-time route.
You must first check the schedule of the compulsory course units and then select your optional units to suit your requirements.
Updated timetable information will be available from mid-August and you will have the opportunity to discuss your unit choices during induction week with your course director.
Course unit details
Semester 1:
POLI60301 Comparative Political Analysis
POLI70311 Critical Approaches to IPE
POLI70851 EU as an International Actor
Semester 2:
POLI60312 Dissertation Research Design
POLI60292 European Political Economy
POLI60032 Comparing Capitalisms in the GPE
POLI70282 Critical Globalization Studies
POLI70922 Critical Environmental Politics
POLI70422 Global Governance
Course unit list
The course unit details given below are subject to change, and are the latest example of the curriculum available on this course of study.
| Title | Code | Credit rating | Mandatory/optional |
|---|---|---|---|
| Dissertation Research Design | POLI60312 | 15 | Mandatory |
| Critical Globalisation Studies | POLI70282 | 15 | Mandatory |
| Critical Approaches to International Political Economy | POLI70311 | 15 | Mandatory |
| Philosophy of Politics Research | POLI70771 | 15 | Mandatory |
| Dissertation | POLI72000 | 60 | Mandatory |
| Qualitative Research Methods | SOCY60230 | 0 | Mandatory |
| Introduction to Quantitative Methods | SOST70511 | 15 | Mandatory |
| Comparing Capitalisms in the Global Political Economy | POLI60032 | 15 | Optional |
| Governing in an Unjust World: Justice and International Relations | POLI60182 | 15 | Optional |
| Using Documents in Social Research | POLI60252 | 5 | Optional |
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Facilities
You will also have access to one of the best-resourced academic libraries in the country.