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PgDip International Relations

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Full time | Queen's University Belfast | 1 year | 16-SEP-24

Study mode

Full time

Duration

1 year

Start date

16-SEP-24

Key information
DATA SOURCE : IDP Connect

Qualification type

Postgraduate Diploma

Subject areas

International Relations

Course type

Taught

Course Summary

Overview

This programme equips students to examine, explain and understand global issues which affects the world around us, from security and terrorism, migration and mobility, to global financial crises.

The diploma provides a foundation in the academic discipline of International Relations and the array of ‘real world’ practices and problems that produce world politics: looking for example, at diplomacy, arms control and arms proliferation, global health policy, humanitarian intervention and international development policy. While attending closely and consistently to issues such as armed conflict, it thus offers a significantly broader education in international politics.

The programme provides an opportunity to study the deep structures that constitute world order, and the pressing contemporary issues that we face, such as armed conflict, human displacement, inequality and injustice. As such, it offers a balance between covering core content in the field of International Relations while allowing students to actively develop areas of specialism as they progress through choosing elective courses according to their own interests.

Many students on our PgDip who make satisfactory academic progress transfer on to the MA programme, thus taking on the additional challenge of an independent research project in the form of a dissertation. Recent students' dissertation topics have included: Jihadi use of social media; Russian foreign and security policy after the Ukraine conflict; Extreme right-wing terrorism and the internet; Russian private military actors; EU defence policy after BREXIT; Baltic security and the future of NATO; Paramilitarism and the Northern Irish border; Indian defence and security in relation to rising China; The limits of ‘truth and reconciliation’ in conflict resolution.

Modules

PAI7030 - International Political Economy - Core
PAI7026 - Theories and Issues in International Relations - Core
HAP7001 - Approaches to Research Design - Core

Tuition fees

UK fees
Course fees for UK students

For this course (per year)

£4,867

International fees
Course fees for EU and international students

For this course (per year)

£14,333

Entry requirements

Normally a 2.2 Honours degree (minimum 57%) or above, or equivalent qualification acceptable to the University in a Social Sciences, Humanities or Arts related discipline, or a 2.2 Honours degree (minimum 57%) or above, or equivalent qualification acceptable to the University in any subject with relevant professional experience. Applicants who do not meet this entry requirement may, at the discretion of the relevant programme convenor be considered for admission on the basis of relevant work experience and/ or an assessed piece of work.