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LSE – PKU Double MSc Degree in International Affairs

Page contents > About the MSc programme | Year 1 at PKU | Year 2 at LSE

Application code: V2IA (check availability)

Start date: Early September 2009 at PKU Beijing

Duration: 24 months full-time only. The first 12 months are spent in Beijing, the second at LSE

Intake/application in 2007: 18/300

Minimum entry requirement: 2:1 in any discipline (see entry requirements)

English requirement: Higher (see entry requirements)

GRE/GMAT requirement: None

Fee level: Year 1 at PKU to be confirmed. Year 2 at LSE £14,556

Financial support: Graduate Support Scheme (see Fees and financial support)

How to apply: All applicants apply via LSE using the online application form- www.lse.ac.uk/collections/graduateAdmissions/apply/applyOnline.htm. This includes applicants from the People's Republic of China, Taiwan, Hong Kong, Macau and PKU students.

All applicants from People's Republic of China, Taiwan, Hong Kong and Macau who do not have dual citizenship (ie do NOT hold a passport from another third country) must complete the National Entrance Examination for Postgraduate Students in China. It is necessary for these students to contact the School of International Studies at Peking University before submitting an application to assess their eligibility for PKU. For further information about the National Entrance Examination for Postgraduate students in China and about the application process please contact Mr Zhang Chunping on pku-lse@pku.edu.cn or ggxyws@pku.edu.cn or call +86-10-62765111 or fax +86-10-62752448.

IMPORTANT - For this programme dual citizenship means you have a full passport of another country, aside from the passport, residence permit or identity card for the People's Republic of China, Taiwan, Hong Kong, Macau or Taiwan.

British National Overseas (BNO) is not sufficient to be considered exempt from taking the National Entrance Examination. A Hong Kong resident/citizen with BNO status will need to take the entrance examination, unless they have a 3rd country passport, aside from their Chinese passport

Application deadline: Applications must be complete by 15 March 2009. Early application is encouraged as there is a limited number of places

Departmental website:
LSE: www.lse.ac.uk/collections/IDEAS/teaching/LSE-PKUmsc.htm
PKU: www.sis.pku.edu.cn/pub/lse

Organised jointly by LSE and Peking University, this new double MSc degree offers an outstanding opportunity for graduate students and young professionals. The first year is spent at the School of International Studies at Peking University, studying the international relations of China and the Asia Pacific region. The second year is spent at LSE, studying the theory and history of global international relations. It offers the following benefits:

  • Gaining an insight into international affairs through studying at the best universities in the social sciences in China and in Europe.
  • While at LSE, courses in the Departments of International Relations and International History.
  • Combining an empirical and a theoretical approach to contemporary international affairs.
  • Studying in small seminar groups of no more than 15 students.
  • Engaging at an advanced level with the latest academic research and undertaking your own research-based term work and dissertation.

About the MSc programme

At LSE, students take core courses in both the International Relations and the International History Departments, take a third course from the wide range of options offered by the two departments, and complete the programme with a dissertation on a relevant topic.

At Peking University, the students take a core course on Chinese Politics and Diplomacy and can select other courses among the wide variety on offer in the School of International Studies. Students can choose among courses taught in English and in Chinese. They complete the First Year programme by writing a dissertation on a topic relevant to their studies. The dissertation can be written in English or in Chinese.

The programme provides an excellent preparation for careers in academia, business or consulting, government or international agencies, the media, politics and law.

Course assessment is by assessed coursework (in some courses) and by a final exam.

Year 1 at PKU

All courses subject to availability

Due to the fact that some teachers responsible for the course may be on sabbatical or other leave during the next academic year we do our best to regularly update this list of available courses. The definitive list of courses in the next academic year will be provided with your offer letter.

Paper 1

  • China's Politics and Diplomacy
    Instructor: Professor Wang Jisi, director of the School of International Studies

Paper 2

  • Modern China and Its Intellectuals
  • International Security: A Chinese Perspective
  • The Political Economy of Transition

Paper 3

Choose two of the following half units:

Courses taught in English:

State and Society in China

State Theory

Human Rights and International Relations

International Relations in Asia-Pacific

Comparative Political and Economic institutions

Politics and Diplomacy in Southeast Asia

International Economics

International Arms Control and Nonproliferation

International Relations and East Asian Security

History of International Political Thought

The Study of International Political Economy

International Environmental Politics

The Politics of International Communications

Development Theory

Courses taught in Chinese:
中文程:

国际关 系的理 论与实践

安全

日本

民族民族主

与国际关

区研

太地安全问题研

亚综

亚研

亚综

亚国际关

岛历文化

太社文化专题研

外交思想

外交

政治外交

For more detailed information on the programme of study in Beijing, see www.sis.pku.edu.cn/pub/lse/Dept6.htm

Year 2 at LSE

All courses subject to availability

Compulsory courses

Options

Choose either one full unit or two half units from the list below:

(* half unit)

Gender, Justice and War
The International Political Economy of the Environment
Foreign Policy Analysis
International Institutions
International Security
International Organisations and Regimes
Strategic Aspects of International Relations
The EU in the World
International Politics – Asia and the Pacific
The International Relations of the Middle East
Conflict and Peace Studies
International Politics – Africa
Economic Diplomacy
European Policy Making in a Global Context*
The International Politics of EU Enlargement*
European Defence and Security*
Politics of Money in the World Economy
The Political Economy of International Trade
Comparative Political Economy
Nationalism
The Origins and Conduct of the Second World War, 1935-1945
European Integration in the 20th Century
Spain and the Great Powers, 1936-1953: Civil War, World War, Cold War
Presidents, Public Opinion and Foreign Policy: from Roosevelt to Reagan 1933-89
Empire, Colonialism and Globalism
Anglo-American Relations from World War to Cold War, 1939-1991
From Cold Warriors to Peacemakers: the End of the Cold War Era, 1979-1995
The Rise and Fall of Communism in Europe, 1917-1990
Political Islam: From Ibn Taymiyya to Osama Bin Laden
Race, Violence and Colonial Rule in Africa
Sex, Race and Slavery: The Western Experience
Crises and Détente in the Cold War, 1962-1979
East Asia in the Age of Imperialism, 1839-1945
From Nationalism to Fascism: Europe, 1890-1939
Origins of the Cold War, 1917-1962
 

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