Nationalism MSc

Facts about Nationalism

Qualification	MSc
Duration	Full time: 1 year Part time: 2 years
Attendance	To be confirmed
Assessment	Essays, reports, class presentations
Course structure

Choose Kingston's Nationalism MSc

The Nationalism MSc is aimed at students who want to develop their specialism in politics within an interdisciplinary context. The course enables students to achieve an enhanced level of theoretical understanding of nationalism as one of the major forces that shape the contemporary world and to understand the roles of nationalism in a range of areas such as international relations, ethnic conflict, promotion of human rights, migration and political communication. The course will be taught by a group of staff members from the Politics Department who are actively researching on various aspects of nationalism.

This distinctive course enables students to specialise in what is an increasingly important and policy-relevant area of studies within the discipline of political science. It emphasises the theoretical side of the study of nationalism as a way of encouraging application to real life issues such as genocide and ethnic cleansing, political violence, citizenship, human rights and the use of media in politics. The course draws from other MSc programmes to provide an enhanced interdisciplinary context in which students are encouraged to achieve a synthetic understanding of political worlds.

What will you study?

The course has three stages, each of which is designed to deepen your knowledge of nationalism, whilst also placing this subject within wider political, social and economic contexts.

In the first stage, which is designed to build the foundation of your study, you will look at conceptual and theoretical issues in the study of nationalism. Your specialist interest will be supported and enhanced by a postgraduate introduction to political science and your research skills will be strengthened by the research methods module. You will have an opportunity to look into other specialism including international relations, human rights, terrorism and conflict.

In the second stage you will develop your specialism in a broader context of political science in the globalising world and with a variety of case studies. You will continue to enhance your research skills and will have a chance to deepen your specialism with a tutorial-led Research Proposal module.

In stage three you will build on what you have learnt and apply your skills in a piece of original research of 12,000–15,000 words.