Course Details
Course Name
MA International Political Economy (Research)
Level of study
Postgraduate Taught
Study Mode
Fulltime
Duration
1 Years
Start Term
Sept
Country
United Kingdom
City
Manchester
Course Subject
- Social Sciences
Course Fees
Inside EU: 9500
Outside EU: 18500
Universities
University of Manchester
Description
Course description
International Political Economy (IPE) or, some prefer Global Political Economy, is a vibrant and rapidly growing field of study. It has always been concerned with the connections between politics and economics, the national and the global, under conditions of globalisation.
More recently, IPE has become an especially productive field for critical social science research into such pressing global issues 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 IPE specialists in the Politics discipline area, and focuses on introducing students 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 financialisaton);
capitalist diversity;
ideology (including neoliberalism);
economic crisis and;
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