Applications are invited from university graduates, mid-career professionals and other interested individuals for a new one-year taught MA Programme:

MA IN CONTEMPORARY EUROPEAN POLITICS
UNIVERSITY OF BATH, ENGLAND, UK

This one-year Masters programme provides students with a broad knowledge of European states' politics, policies and societies and with a profound understanding of the politics and policies of the European Union. It enables them to relate European developments to wider, especially trans-Atlantic, East-West and North-South developments, and to critically discuss and write about these issues.

The programme consists of two semesters of taught courses and a dissertation module during which students write a 20,000 word dissertation on a topic of their choice and under the supervision of an experienced member of staff.

Taught units that are offered in the programme reflect the expertise of the Department's research active staff and include:

-Concepts and Theories in the Study of Contemporary European Politics
-The European Union's Common Foreign and Security Policy
-European Politics in Its International Context after the Cold War
-Multilevel Governance and Multilayered Citizenship in Europe
-Political Economy of European Integration
-Nationalism and Ethnopolitics in Contemporary Europe
-The Politics of Sustainability: Risk, Security and Stability
-The Politics of Transnationalism: Migration, Organised Crime & Terrorism

In conjunction with the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, the Department also offers training in political science research methods.

For application packs and related queries, please contact
Abigail Jenner, Admissions Secretary, Department of European Studies, University of Bath Bath BA2 7AY, England, UK, Tel. +44 (0)1225 38 3950, Fax +44 (0)1225 38 6099, Email: A.M.Jenner@bath.ac.uk

OR
Stefan Wolff, Director of Studies, Department of European Studies, University of Bath Bath BA2 7AY, England, UK, Tel. +44 (0)1225 38 6395, Fax +44 (0)1225 38 6099, Email: S.Wolff@bath.ac.uk.

Further information is also available at: http://www.bath.ac.uk/esml/macep/.