Course description
Our course is not a professional law qualification, but is aimed at those who need to acquire a knowledge of EU law, institutions and policy-making processes because of the career they wish to pursue or are pursuing. Since most students come without a background in law, an initial crash course (an intensive two-day programme) introduces the general principles of law that you will need.
You will then take the following units
-European Union: institutions, law and theories
-Comparative public policy and administration
-International trade and EU competition law
-International human rights and EU social law
-Policy-making in the EU
In addition, you choose either Employment law or information technology law and one further option from the
following:
-External relations of the EU
-Governing Europe
-Policy evaluation
-European environmental law and policy
-Democratisation and transition in Eastern Europe
-Terrorism and political violence
-International and transnational offending
Further options are also available from other Masters courses in the Portsmouth Business School and Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences.
You will also undertake research management training in the unit researching Europe. This introduces you to research methods and resources and prepares you for the research and writing of your dissertation, which will be between 12,000 and 15,000 words. Your dissertation can be written on an approved topic of your choice.