Director of the Master: Ferran Requejo
The application period for 2011-2012 begins in November 2010.
This interdepartmental MA is aimed at holders of a degree in Political and Social Sciences, Philosophy, Humanities and Law who wish to make a start in academic research in the field of Political Philosophy. This programme lets students to acquire the knowledge and abilities necessary to work as political analysts in institutions or political and social organizations, or to enter doctoral studies in this field (you can enter the PhD programmes of the Department of Political and Social Sciences, the Department of Humanities and the Department of Law).
The main objetive of the MA in Political Philosophy is to prepare researchers in this discipline, with the theoretical knowledge, methodological abilities and the critical and analytic attitude necessary to develop high-level international research and take part in high quality research groups.
Other objectives are:
All the courses are 5 credits ECTS (European Credit Transfer System). Modules 1 and 4 are compulsory for all students. Regarding modules 2 and 3, students will need to choose three courses of module 2 and two courses of module 3.
For the completion of the Final Research Paper (module 4) all students will be assigned a supervisor, chosen among all the professors of the programme (with the exception of the visiting professors).
The professor and the language of each course is detailed below, next to the name of the course.
Module 1: Theory and Methodology (15 ECTS)
Module 2: Optatives of Political Theory and Philosophy (15 ECTS) (you need to choose three)
Module 3: Optatives of Philosophy and Social Sciences (10 ECTS) (you need to choose ten credits)
* 2009-2010 syllabus, updates pending.
Module 4: Final Research Paper (20 ECTS)
TOTAL: 60 credits ECTS (European Credit Transfer System)
Here you can download the schedule of the academic year 2010-2011. The document has two parts: a calendar which includes the three compulsory core courses and the five optative courses of Theory and Political Philosophy, and an additional list with the schedule and information (credit number, language, etc.) of the Philosophy and Social Sciences optative subjects (all of them belong to other UPF masters programmes).
Non-EU students should take into account that there is an official tax of 200 euros to enter Master studies with a non-convalidated foreign qualification.
Finally, the official tax to get the final diploma is 200 euros.
For administrative queries: cristina.sanchez@upf.edu or +34.93.5422846.
For academic queries, please contact the director of the Master at: ferran.requejo@upf.edu
The Department of Social and Political Sciences will not tolerate plagiarism, copy or active or passive collaboration in this type of dishonest behaviour in papers written by our students. The sanction for plagiarism will be the immediate fail in the course. Additionally, the University will initiate proceedings against the student that could lead to his/her expulsion of the Master.
We will consider plagiarism using someone's words without referencing the source or including the information in quotation marks or a block quote; using someone's ideas without referencing the source or copying papers written by other students.