MSc European Studies: Ideas and Identities

About the MSc programme

The programme provides a philosophically and historically grounded, multi-disciplinary analysis of Europe as a social, political and cultural space, driven by teachers of academic distinction, with experience of policy making in Europe. In the degree students will explore the increasingly important public debate on the meaning and limits of 'Europe'; the relationship between civil society and the state in Europe; the relevance of a transnational sociology; the domestic impact of the European Union for citizenship and identity; and the cultural and policy implications of national and ethnic diversity and migration.

Students take six half units (one full unit may replace two half units) and write a 10,000 word essay on an approved topic. In addition, all students must take Interdisciplinary Research Methods and Design to prepare for the dissertation. Students must also attend European Union: Contemporary Issues- a programme of guest lectures from distinguished outside speakers, including business leaders and policy makers. Students can expect an average of 180 hours of teaching.

Former graduates pursue successful careers in politics, journalism, research, diplomacy, business and in international institutions and NGOs. Students from our programmes are actively head hunted by international organisations working in the region.

Applicants for the programme should have a good upper second or first class degree, or a GPA of 3.5 or better in any of the arts, humanities or social sciences disciplines.

Compulsory courses

(* half unit)

• The Idea of Europe*
• Democracy, Ideology and the European State* or Identity, Community and the 'Problem of Minorities'*
• Dissertation

Options

Choose a total of two full units from:

• Europeanisation: The Comparative Politics of Domestic Change*
• Europe Beyond Modernity*
• Political and Fiscal Integration and Disintegration in EU Member States*
• European Models of Capitalism*
• Partisanship in Europe* 
• Democracy, Ideology and the European State*
• Identity, Community and the 'Problem of Minorities'*
• European Society and Politics Beyond the Nation State*
• European Integration in the Twentieth Century  
• Ethnic Diversity and International Society*
• European Union Law and Government*
• Policy-Making in the European Union*
• Government and Politics in Eastern Europe* 
• Multiculturalism, Nationalism and Citizenship*
• Citizens' Political Behaviour in Europe: Elections, Public Opinion, and Identities*
• Public Policy Responses to International Migration* 
• The Economics of European Social Policy*
• Interest Representation and Economic Policy-Making in Europe* 
• Greece and the European Union*
• Economic and Social Policy in Mediterranean Europe*
• The Political Economy of Southeast Europe*
• Turkey: Political Economy and European Integration*
• Greece and Southeast Europe: Government, Economy and Foreign Policy*
• Economic History of Southeastern Europe and the Middle East, 1820-1970*
• The Second Europe*
• 20th-Century European Liberal Thought*
• Kant's Political Philosophy*
• The European Enlightenment, c1680-1799
• Scientific Revolutions: Philosophical and Historical Issues
• European Human Rights Law*
• Migration and Mobility: EU Law and Politics*
• The Philosophy of Europe* 
• Philosophy of the Social Sciences
• Philosophy of Economics
• The West: Identity and Interests* 
• An outside option (with permission)