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Course Overview

The overall aim of the program is to provide students with a systematic and comprehensive understanding of the multifaceted nature of contemporary geopolitical issues by developing the knowledge and skills necessary to engage the intersections of space, power, and politics. 

Taught by academic experts in Human Geography, Politics and International Relations, this new MA enables students to engage the intersections of geography and politics as they relate to power, culture and global issues. The program builds knowledge in both the theory and practice of contemporary geopolitics across a range of major political and global arenas and from a variety of conceptual and theoretical perspectives. Students are able to combine a strong grounding in current debates and developments in international political geography with opportunities to specialize in a range of issues such as security, conflict, gender, popular culture, and climate change. Students will develop the advanced conceptual and analytic skills needed to engage the intersections of space, power, and politics in a range of historic and contemporary issues. We encourage students to develop a critical and analytical approach to problems shaping environments, places and landscapes; to challenge accepted wisdom about the role of spatiality in relation to political power in the late 20th and early 21st centuries. Students may engage this through a focus on particular issues, or a broad range of engagements that register the everyday and global geographies of power at work in a range of issues.

In particular, the program will:
1) Provide advanced conceptual and analytic skills needed to engage the intersections of space, power and politics in a range of historic and contemporary issues.
2) Encourage students to develop a critical and analytical approach to problems shaping environments, places and landscapes; to challenge accepted wisdom about the role of spatiality in relation to political power in the late 20th and early 21st centuries.
3) Enable students to engage with advanced research and analysis that registers the everyday and global geographies of power at work in a range of issues.
4) Enhance student's transferable and intellectual skills and employability skills through independent learning and the pursuit of originality in tackling and solving problems.

Entry Requirement 

Graduate:

Normally a 2.2 Honours degree (minimum 57%) or above, or equivalent qualification acceptable to the University in a Social Sciences, Humanities or Arts subject 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 these entry requirements 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.

The University's Recognition of Prior Learning Policy provides guidance on the assessment of experiential learning (RPEL).

English Language Requirements:
Evidence of an IELTS* score of 6.5, with not less than 5.5 in any component, or an equivalent qualification acceptable to the University is required. *Taken within the last 2 years.

International students wishing to apply to Queen's University Belfast (and for whom English is not their first language), must be able to demonstrate their proficiency in English in order to benefit fully from their course of study or research. Non-EEA nationals must also satisfy UK Visas and Immigration (UKVI) immigration requirements for the English language for visa purposes.

If you need to improve your English language skills before you enter this degree programme, INTO Queen's University Belfast offers a range of English language courses. These intensive and flexible courses are designed to improve your English ability for admission to this degree.

  • Academic English: an intensive English language and study skills course for successful university study at degree level
  • Pre-sessional English: a short intensive academic English course for students starting a degree programme at Queen's University Belfast and who need to improve their English.

Fees

Northern Ireland (NI)1: £6450
Republic of Ireland (ROI)2: £6450
England Scotland or Wales (GB)1: £7250
EU Other3: £17700
International: £17700

 


This information was accurate on : 08/01/2021
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