Excellence Group: Political Science
CHE EXCELLENCE RANKING 2009
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Presentation
The master aims to provide students with very high standard education in advanced political and social sciences, offering them a range of attractive combined research options in political science and sociology that transcend traditional subject barriers.
The master is primarily designed to train high level analysts, researchers and professionals in the field of politics and social demographics who will be qualified to circulate and compete professionally within the European Union.
The master is designed according to a curricular profile with three major objectives:
- To acquire a high level of knowledge in political science and social demographics with a specific focus on one of the two following areas: Sociology and Demography, and Current Democracies (Nationalism, Federalism and Multiculturality).
- To attain high level expertise in applying state-of-the-art technologies and techniques to the field of political science and social demographics.
- To develop general competencies that will improve the student's professional profile in the following aspects: analysis, synthesis and communication competencies; their ability to adapt to new situations and to create new knowledge areas, skills in interpersonal relations and ethical responsibility.
Specialisations
- Current Democracies: Nationalism, Federalism and Multiculturality
- Sociology and Demography
Contents
Core subjects for all students:
- Qualitative Research Methods
- Fundamentals of Political and Social Research
- Final Research Paper (20 créditos)
Compulsory subjects by specialisations:
- Current Democracies: Nationalism, Federalism and Multiculturality
Democracy and political liberalism: theoretical and institutional features
Multiculturalism and Immigration policies
Federalism and Federations: Political Theory and Comparative Politics
Qualitative Research Methods. Political Theory in the 21st Century
- Sociology and Demography
Social Policy and the Welfare State
Techniques of Statistical Analysis I
Analysis of Social Inequalities
Demographic Changes and Social Dynamics
Techniques of Statistical Analysis II
Optional subjects:
- Electoral Competition and Voting Behavior
- Participation and the Political Process
- Political Attitudes and Democracy
- The Welfare State, Globalization and European Integration
- Actors and Institutions in the Analysis of Public Policy
- The management of Complex Organisations
- Electoral Systems
- Migrations and Society: Socioeconomic and Political Dimensions of the Integration Process
- Current Research on Diverse Democracies
- Design, evaluation and analysis of questionnaires for survey research
- The Construction of the European Union and its Consequences on the European Population
- Nation and nationalism (only for Current Democracies specialisation students)
- Europe and the Islamic world (only for Current Democracies specialisation students)
- Economics of Work (only for Sociology and Demography specialisation students )
