Political Science - Political Theory Pathway (Research Route) MA

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Political Science - Political Theory Pathway (Research Route) MA

  • Entry requirements Entry requirements: 2:1 (or overseas equivalent) in a Social Science subject for MA entry.
  • Academic title Political Science - Political Theory Pathway (Research Route) MA
  • Course description Course description

    There has been a long tradition of specialising in the study of political theory at Manchester. Between them, those teaching on this pathway cover a wide variety of fields of interest: from the major debates in contemporary political philosophy (around topics of rights, justice and political morality) to an emphasis on those traditions of European political thought - from the Enlightenment to the Frankfurt School - which have shaped the self-understanding of modernity.

    You take:

    5 Compulsory Training Courses (as above)

    2 Compulsory Core courses; Normative Analysis and Moral reasoning and Political Theory - Research Training Seminar

    Further options - you choose one module from a range of core course units in political theory with further options available from the graduate programme of the Centre for Philosophy

    Module details

    Compulsory Research Training Modules

    Advanced Research in Politics

    Dissertation Research Design

    Qualitative Methods

    Quantitative Methods

    Philosophy of Social Science

    Compulsory Core Modules

    Political Theory Research Training Seminar

    Normative Analysis & Moral Reasoning

    Political Theory further module options

    Further options - you choose one module from a wide range of course units in Political theory with further options available from within the Politics and Philosophy discipline areas or from the School of Social Science (course unit availability may be subject to alteration).

    Ethics of Killing

    Post Modern Thinkers: Politics and Policy

    Theories of Rights

    Feminism and Political Theory

    Justice and Pluralism

    Global Justice

    Rational Politics

    Democracy: Theory and Practice

    (Course unit availability may be subject to alteration)

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