China in Comparative Perspective – (M.Sc.)

Contents

The programme is built around: a compulsory core course on China in Comparative Perspective; optional core courses in selected disciplines; additional optional courses from selected disciplines; and a 10,000 word dissertation. There are also non-assessed seminars and tutorials for all students. Please note that the options listed below are an indicative list rather than a complete set.

Compulsory courses
* China in Comparative Perspective. There will be an examination at the end of the course, in June, of three hours in which you will be asked to answer three unseen questions.
* Seminar for China in Comparative Perspective (non assessed)
* Tutorials for MSc China in Comparative Perspective (non assessed)
* Dissertation

Options
(* half unit)

Choose one core unit from:

* Anthropology: Theory and Ethnography
* Pre-modern Paths of Growth: East and West Compared, 1000-1800*
* Democracy in East and South Asia* and Introduction to Comparative Politics*

Choose courses to the value of one full unit from:

* The Anthropology of Religion
* The Anthropology of Kinship, Sex and Gender
* The Anthropology of Industrialisation and Industrial Life*
* The Anthropology of Development*
* Anthropology and Human Rights*
* Anthropology of Politics*
* The Anthropology of India*
* Anthropology of Economy (1): Production and Exchange*
* Anthropology of Economy (2): Transformation and Globalisation*
* Anthropology and Media*
* Taiwan in Comparative Perspective*
* The Anthropology of Post-soviet Eurasia*
* China in Developmental Perspectives*
* Economic Development in East and Southeast Asia*
* European Models of Capitalism*
* Government and Politics in China*
* Local Power in an Era of Globalisation, Democratisation, and Decentralisation*
* East Asia in the Age of Imperialism, 1839-1945*
* Foreign Policy Analysis III
* International Politics: Asia and the Pacific
* Introduction to International Political Theory*
* The International Political Theory of Humanitarian Intervention*
* The Politics of International Law*
* European Social Policy
* NGO Management, Policy and Administration
* Social Policy Research
* Social Policy: Goals and Issues*
* Globalisation and Social Policy*
* Social Policy – Organisation and Innovation*
* Health and Population in Developing and Transitional Societies*
* Cities and Social Change in East Asia*

Please note that only a selection of the optional courses is run each year, and some options are only available with approval of the course leader.

No options may be selected without the approval of the programme director of this MSc. The teachers of the options listed above know they are recommended to students of this degree. Even so, you need to make sure that the course teacher has accepted you. Further options from the full range offered to graduates in the School may also be chosen, according to your previous degree subject and as support for your intended dissertation topic. It is even more important to check with the course teacher in this case.