You will take courses to the value of four full units in total, made up of one and a half compulsory unit courses, a dissertation or applied policy project, and optional courses totalling one and a half units.
(* denotes a half unit)
Engaging with Europe: Professional Skills (unassessed)
Introduces students to professional skills development through a programme of skills training workshops and guest lectures from distinguished outside practitioners.
Evidence and Analysis in Policy-making*
Provides students with methodological knowledge and practical skills to analyse and evaluate policies and interventions by International Organisations, the EU and national governments.
Or
Applied Regression Analysis*
The course is concerned with deepening the understanding of the generalized linear model and its application to social science data. The main topics covered are linear regression modelling and binary, multinomial and ordinal logistic regression.
Courses to the value of one unit from:
European Integration from a Global Governance Perspective*
Focuses on the following issues: the nature of globalisation; its actors, institutions and processes; the form and scope of governance; and its normative implications. For each of these themes, European integration will serve as the principal case study to be discussed in light of developments in the rest of the world. The course will give students a conceptual and thematic overview of European integration as a phenomenon of global governance.
European Policy-Making and International Cooperation*
Explores governance in Europe and at the national and EU level, including integration and disintegration dynamics in a historical and global context, major issues of EU policy-making and its implementation and compliance, trade within and beyond the Single Market, and financial regulation.
Analytical Politics and Policy Making in Europe*
Examines politics and policymaking in European democracies and the European Union. It also introduces a set of analytical and empirical tools and concepts for understanding how political institutions and political agents jointly generate public policy, and how to apply these tools in examining political and policy outcomes in European States.
Additionally
Courses to the value of one and a half units from a range of options
And one from:
Dissertation
An independent research project of up to 10,000 words on an approved topic of your choice.
Applied Policy Project
An applied group research project related to a real-life public policy problem situated at the international, European or national level.
