2024/25 Taught Postgraduate Programme Catalogue
MA Global Political Economy
| Programme code: | MA-GPE-FT | UCAS code: | |
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| Duration: | 12 Months | Method of Attendance: | Full Time |
| Programme manager: | Dr Charlie Dannreuther & Dr Owain Williams | Contact address: | C.Dannreuther@leeds.ac.uk/O.D.Williams@leeds.ac.uk |
Total credits: 180
Entry requirements:
Entry Requirements are available on the Course Search entry
School/Unit responsible for the parenting of students and programme:
Politics and International Studies
Examination board through which the programme will be considered:
Programme specification:
This programme unites our academic commitment and expertise in helping understand and develop responses to the most pressing global political economy challenges facing humanity today.
In conjunction with a firm grounding in the key theories and concepts of global political economy, you will have the opportunity to analyse powerful global economic governance agencies like the World Bank and International Monetary Fund, alongside the firms and sectors and markets that generate many of the global conflicts, instabilities, crises and challenges we face. In the first semester we tackle the key concepts and frameworks for political economy analysis. In semester 2 you will explore how sectors, markets and firms are linked to, for example, food and health insecurities, unemployment, job precarity, poverty, climate change and pollution.
The programme’s emphasis on real-world issues allows us to place special attention on how governance agenda and their impact are experienced, negotiated and responded to in everyday lives and to compare and assess how policymakers and communities seek change.
Year1 - View timetable
[Learning Outcomes, Transferable (Key) Skills, Assessment]
Compulsory modules:
Candidates will be required to study the following compulsory modules
| PIED5527M | Theories and Concepts in Global Political Economy | 30 credits | Semester 1 (Sep to Jan) | |
| PIED5528M | Capitalism in Practice | 30 credits | Semester 2 (Jan to Jun) | |
| PIED5800M | Dissertation | 60 credits | 1 Jan to 30 Sep, 1 Oct to 30 Sep (12mth) |
Optional modules:
Candidates will be required to study 30 credits from the following optional modules:
| PIED5235M | Education in Development | 30 credits | Semester 1 (Sep to Jan) | |
| PIED5255M | Gender, Globalisation and Development | 30 credits | Semester 2 (Jan to Jun) | |
| PIED5400M | The Rise of China | 30 credits | Semester 2 (Jan to Jun) | |
| PIED5580M | Climate Security | 30 credits | Semester 2 (Jan to Jun) | |
| PIED5652M | Global Governance | 30 credits | Semester 1 (Sep to Jan) | |
| PIED5734M | Analysing Data in Political Science | 30 credits | Semester 1 (Sep to Jan) |
Candidates will be required to study 30 credits from the following optional modules:
| PIED5547M | Popular Culture: World politics, Society and Culture | 30 credits | Semester 1 (Sep to Jan) | |
| PIED5562M | International Relations and the Environment | 30 credits | Semester 2 (Jan to Jun) | |
| PIED5625M | The Global Political Economy of Money, Debt and Finance | 30 credits | Semester 2 (Jan to Jun) | |
| PIED5626M | Global Justice | 30 credits | Not running in 202425 | |
| PIED5660M | Ethics and Politics of Migration and Citizenship | 30 credits | Semester 2 (Jan to Jun) |
Year2 - View timetable
[Learning Outcomes, Transferable (Key) Skills, Assessment]
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