Informació acadèmica
Students must complete 60 ECTS credits (European Credit Transfer and Accumulation System) Compulsory courses: 25 ECTS (5 courses) Optional courses: 15 ECTS (3 courses) Final Master thesis: 20 ECTS
All courses are 5 ECTS credits (European Credit Transfer System) except specified otherwise. The Master is taught entirely in English.
Module 1 (compulsory): Methods and Research Techniques (15 ECTS credits)
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Qualitative Research Methods
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Fundamentals of Political and Social Research
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Political Theory in the 21st Century
Module 2 (compulsory): Fundamentals of Political Theory and Political Science (10 ECTS credits)
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Democracy and Political Liberalism: theoretical and institutional features
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Federalism and Federations: political theory and comparative politics
Module 3 (elective courses): Deepening in some areas of Political Theory and Political Sciences (15 ECTS - choose three courses)*
- Current Research on Diverse Democracies
- Discourse Analysis
- Diversity and Immigration Policies
- Diversity, Discrimination and Citizenship
- Electoral Systems
- Immigration Governance
- Migration and Society
- Nationalism Today
- Politics and Gender
- Problems and Challenges of Democratization
- Techniques of Statistical Analysis I
- Techniques of Statistical Analysis II
- The Construction of the EU and its Consequences on the European Population
- The current financial and economic crises and their impact on the social wellbeing of populations
Module 4 (compulsory): Final Research Paper (20 ECTS)
Each student will be assigned a supervisor, chosen among all the professors of the programme (with the exception of the visiting professors).
See also: Academic structure for previous years