Selecting your Courses Dr Elizabeth Bomberg Deputy Head PIR ebombergedacuk Dr Andrea Birdsall amp Dr Claire Duncanson Directors of UG Teaching dugtedacuk Note these slides are intended to help you choose next years courses The registration process informatio ID: 469321
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PIR, Year 3Selecting your Courses
Dr Elizabeth
Bomberg
(Deputy Head, PIR)
e.bomberg@ed.ac.uk
Dr Andrea
Birdsall
& Dr Claire
Duncanson
(Directors of UG Teaching)
dugt@ed.ac.uk
Note
: these slides are intended to help you choose next year’s courses. The registration process information and forms will be available here in June 2014:
http://www.sps.ed.ac.uk/undergrad/on_course_students/course_registration_for_continuing_studentsSlide2
2Overview
Moving into honours
What are the required courses?
What do I need to take when?
What optional courses are available?
Form and deadlines
Q/ASlide3
Moving into honoursStep level change in difficulty and
expectation
You will need
to read and think
more
You will notice
a difference in tutorials and class discussionYou will also enjoy more flexibility in course choices and specialismsYou will be able to study your chosen topics in more depth
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4Year 3, required courses
International Relations:
Theories
of
IR (
sem
1)
Global Justice and Citizenship (
sem
1)
Approaches to Politics and IR (
sem
2)
IPE (
sem
1) OR Global Security (
sem
2) (or take
in 4
th
year)
http
://
www.drps.ed.ac.uk/14-15/dpt/utintre.htm
(click for specific
requirments
)
Politics
:
Comparative
Politics (
sem
1)
Global
Justice and
Citizenship (
sem
1)
Approaches to Politics and
IR (
sem
2)
http://
www.drps.ed.ac.uk/14-15/dpt/utpoltc.htm
(click for specific
requirments
)Slide5
5Required courses, description
Global Justice and Citizenship
This course examines concepts central to political debate - particularly justice and rights - and investigates how political theorists use these in trying to justify basic principles governing the activities of the state. We consider how such principles might be justified and applied in contexts beyond the state.
Approaches to Politics and IR:
This
course will familiarize you with key theoretical approaches to politics and international relations. Several different analytical perspectives - rational choice theory, institutionalism and social constructivism, critical theory, feminism,
poststructuralism
and
postcolonialism
- will be introduced and applied to contemporary, real world problems.Slide6
6Required courses, cont. (IR)
Theories of IR:
The aim of this course is to introduce students to the key concepts of international relations theory, and to develop the skills necessary to engage with those concepts critically
.
Global Security:
This
course provides a broad conceptual framework for understanding and
analyzing
the main challenges to international security, and for assessing policy responses across the world.
IPE:
examines
international exchanges of money and trade, including how they have changed over recent decades. The course also looks at problems of under-development and
debt; the
role of non-state
actors; as well as
the growth of regionalism and globalisation in the contemporary world
economy.Slide7
7Required courses, cont. (Politics)
Comparative Politics
What does ‘comparative research’ involve? How can it help us to explain political processes and events? By using comparison as a method, and drawing on a wide range of cases and themes, the course will enable students to better understand key debates and developments in political science (and beyond). Slide8
8SINGLE HONOURS, IR
Semester 1
Theories of IR
Global Justice and Citizenship
OPEN OPTION
(or Global Security or IPE)
Semester 2
Approaches to Politics and IR
OPEN OPTION
OPEN OPTION Slide9
9SINGLE HONOURS, Politics
Semester 1
Comparative Politics
Global Justice and Citizenship
OPEN
OPTION
Semester 2
Approaches to Politics and IR
OPEN OPTION
OPEN OPTION Slide10
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COMBINED DEGREES
requirements will depend on
your subject - CHECK DRPS!!!!
*
Semester 1
Global Justice OR APIR
Your other degree course
OPEN OPTION
*
http://www.drps.ed.ac.uk/14-15/dpt/drpsindex.htm
Semester 2
Your other degree course
OPEN OPTION
(or Comparative Politics)
OPEN OPTIONSlide11
11Optional Courses
Check PIR options on PIR and DRPS pages
New
PIR courses in 2014-15:
Democracy
and its Discontents
Egyptian PoliticsInternational Politics of Money
Political Work
Referendums in Comparative Perspective
Honours options from within the College of Humanities and Social Sciences
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12Filling out the form
In early June YOU
WILL RECEIVE AN EMAIL FROM THE SCHOOL ALERTING YOU
WHEN COURSE SELECTION BEGINS: http://www.sps.ed.ac.uk/undergrad/on_course_students/course_registration_for_continuing_students
Deadline for submission of form is end of
June or early JulySlide13
Now that you’re honours students, here are some Leadership Roles and Opportunities
PIR PALS -
http://www.eusa.ed.ac.uk/getinvolved/peer-support
/
PIR SOC -
https://www.facebook.com/eupolsoc EU SOC - https://
www.facebook.com/EUSocietyEdinburgh
HEAR – Higher
Education Achievement
Record
http://
www.ed.ac.uk/schools-departments/student-administration/other-info/hear
Edinburgh Award -
http://
www.employability.ed.ac.uk/Student/EdinburghAward/
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Other
questions
?
You
can ask your PT, or contact the Undergraduate Teaching office (
politics@ed.ac.uk
)
Or contact the Directors of Undergraduate Teaching, Andrea
Birdsall
or Claire
Duncanson
at:
dugt@ed.ac.uk