MA in International Relations

Dublin City University

The DCU MA in International Relations is the oldest in Dublin and is known for its dedicated staff and diverse student body. We welcome students from all over the world as well as those with different career experiences and those who have studied very different subjects at the undergraduate level. Our intellectual approach is also diverse. We see international relations as the meeting point of diverse theoretical disciplinary and geographical perspectives. In the first semester the core introductory subjects are offered in small classes that offer students an intellectual toolkit to use throughout the course and also help the students to get to know each other. In the second semester students can choose from the many optional modules developed specially for the MA in International Relations as well as modules from a host of other programmes in international relations security studies public policy and law. These normally include issues such as international politics human rights the economy communications trade area studies and environmental protection. Students also write a dissertation of up to 15000 words and receive support in doing so from the beginning of the course including one-to-one supervision.

Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences