Program Structure
Year 1: Renmin University, Master’s in Law majoring in International Relations (SISRUC)
During your first year of studies at Renmin University, you are required to complete 32 credits of coursework and write a dissertation of no less than 15,000 words on a relevant topic.
Mandatory courses:
- Contemporary Chinese Politics and Governance
- Asia-Pacific Security and Strategy
- Basic/Intermediate Chinese Language
- Asia-Pacific Energy Cooperation
- International Relations Theory and Asia-Pacific Regional Cooperation
- Nations & Nationalism in Asia
- Contemporary Chinese History and Culture
- Academic English Writing in Political Science
Elective courses:
- Contemporary Chinese Foreign Policy
- Contemporary Chinese Society
- Key Issues and Institutions of Modern-Day China – Lecture Series & Visits
- Research Methods for Social Sciences
- Methodologies in China Studies
- Investment in China
- China’s Foreign Economic Relations
- The Political Economy of China and Developing Countries Relations
- Topics in China Studies – Lecture Series & Visits
- Overseas Chinese and International Migration
- The Political Economy of Southeast Asia
- Intermediate / Advanced Chinese Language
- China-US Relations
- Territory and Maritime Rights
- China and Europe in World Politics
- Any other graduate-level courses
Year 2: King’s College London, MA European and International Politics (King’s)
During your second year of studies at KCL, you are required to complete 3 mandatory modules of 90 UK credits and a number of optional modules of 90 UK credits.
Mandatory Modules:
- European Union: History, Institutions and Politics or European Identities and the EU
- European Studies Dissertation
- Research Design
Optional Modules:
90 credits from any Level 7 modules from the modules offered. Optional modules may also be taken in other departments in the College according to availability if it is approved by the department.
- Foreign Policies of the European Union
- Critical Political Economy
- The Political Economy of Europe: Political Science Perspectives
- Research Methods for Social Sciences
- The International Political Economy Of Production
- The Middle East in The Global Political Economy
- Global Governance and International Organisations
- The Political Economy of Development
- The Political Economy of the Financial Crisis
- The Politics of Economic Inequality
- Political Economy of Korean And East Asian Development
- East Asia in the Global Political Economy
- The Political Economy of International Migration
- Comparative Capitalism: Eastern and Western Models
- Lived Democracy
- Postcolonial Political Economy
- Multinational Corporations and Global Supply Chains
- Gender Politics and Public Policy
- Institutions and Economic Development
- Britain & Europe Since 1945
- Anglo-American Relations Since 1945
- Contemporary Russian Politics and Policy
- Oil, Gas and Modernisation in Russia
- Politics of Energy Security in Eurasia
- New and Emerging Security Threats in Post-Soviet Eurasia
- Clandestine side of Globalisation: Organised Crime, Terrorism and Corruption
- Lobbying & Policy Making in the EU
- International Political Economy of Energy Markets
- The Politics of Economic Inequality