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.