MSc China in Comparative Perspective

Full-year programme. Students must take one compulsory course, select from a choice of other disciplinary core courses, select one full-unit or two half-unit optional courses, and write a dissertation, as shown below. Attendance at tutorials and the seminar is compulsory.  

Paper

Course number and title

1

AN447 China in Comparative Perspective

2

Courses to the value of one unit from the following: 
AN404 Anthropology: Theory and Ethnography
GV427 Democracy and Decentralization in East and South Asia (H) and GV467 Introduction to Comparative Politics (H)
EH482 Pre-Modern Paths of Growth: East and West Compared, 1000-1800
(Students who do not wish to advance their first degree in one of the disciplines below may take a full unit course from paper 3)

3

Courses to the value of one unit from the following: 
AN402 The Anthropology of Religion
AN405 The Anthropology of Kinship, Sex and Gender
AN419 The Anthropology of Christianity (H) (n/a 08/09)
AN420 The Anthropology of South-East Asia (H) (n/a 08/09)
AN421 The Anthropology of Industrialization and Industrial Life (H)
AN436 The Anthropology of Development (H)
AN439 Anthropology and Human Rights (H) (n/a 08/09)
AN451 Anthropology of Politics (H)
AN453 The Anthropology of India (H)
AN456 Anthropology of Economy (1): Production and Exchange (H)
AN457 Anthropology of Economy (2): Transformation and Globalisation (H)
AN460 Taiwan in Comparative Perspective (H)
EH446 Economic Development in East and Southeast Asia  (n/a 08/09)
EU443 European Models of Capitalism (H)
GV432 Government and Politics in China (H) (n/a 08/09)
GV446 The Politics of Empire and Post Imperialism
GV4D3 Local Power in an Era of Globalization, Democratization and Decentralization (H)
HY461 East Asia in the Age of Imperialism, 1839-1945*
A full-unit from MSc International Relations (papers 2 & 3), subject to availability and the approval of the relevant course convenor. The following courses would be particularly appropriate: 
IR411 Foreign Policy Analysis III
IR412 International Institutions
IR418 International Politics: Asia and the Pacific
IR462 Introduction to International Political Theory (H)
IR463 The International Political Theory of Humanitarian Intervention † (H)
IR464 The Politics of International Law † (H)
IR465 The International Politics of Culture and Religion
IR482 Russia and Eurasia: Foreign and Security Policies
A full-unit in Social Policy chosen from the following, subject to availability and the approval of the relevant course convenor: 
SA405 European Social Policy
SA407 Financing Health Care (H)
SA435 NGO Management, Policy and Administration
SA451 Social Policy Research
SA488 Social Policy: Goals and Issues (H)
SA4C8 Globalization and Social Policy (H)
SA4C9 Social Policy - Organization and Innovation (H)
SA4D2 Health and Population in Developing and Transitional Societies (H)

4

AN498 Dissertation- MSc China in Comparative Perspective

Students also take non-assessed AN446 Tutorials for MSc China in Comparative Perspective

Notes

*means subject to space
† IR462 is a pre-requisite for this course

 

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