Program Structure

Year 1: Renmin University, MA in Asian and International Affairs

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

Year 2: King’s College London, MA in Asian and International Affairs

During your second year of studies at KCL, you are required to complete two mandatory modules and a number of optional modules.

Mandatory Modules:

Global Politics: Transatlantic, Transpacific and Eurasia
Dissertation

Optional Modules:

Research Design
European Identities and the EU
Foreign Policies of the European Union
European Union: History, Institutions, Politics
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

For more details about what your year at Renmin University will be like, please check our program website, where you will find information about faculty, courses, students and alumni.