European Politics

  

Contact us: 

  

FSS MU

Office for International Relations

Joštova 10

602 00 Brno

Czech Republic

  

Phone: 

(+420) 549 49 1914

  

Email:

admission@fss.muni.cz

  

  

Optimal Study Plan

  

The following study plan is meant to help students enrolled in the European Politics program make effective choices of courses with a view of earning the required number of credits. It specifies the sequence of compulsory courses that is deemed to be the most effective study plan for students enrolled in the program. The sequence of optional courses is not specified.

The strategy is specified so as to ensure that students would have earned 120 credits at the end of the program (78 credits will be earned in compulsory courses and 42 credits in optional courses).  Out of the 42 optional-course credits, 12 credits can be earned in courses that are not part of the European Politics program. Please note that all of your required course credits and grades must be entered by the teachers into the information system at least 3 days prior to final state exams.

 

A note on thesis writing:

Students following a standard course of study should contact a potential thesis supervisor in the beginning of the third semester of the program. They should ultimately select a thesis topic and a supervisor and agree with the selected supervisor on relevant issues and details. This should preferably be done by the end of October. If the spring semester is the third semester of study, the recommended deadline is the end of March. The supervisor will subsequently confirm the thesis topic in the Information System of the Masaryk University (the upcoming deadline is November, 2009). In the following (fourth) semester, students should enroll in the thesis writing seminar. In the thesis seminar, students are expected to submit an almost finished thesis text several weeks before the deadline for the submission of the final version of the Master's thesis. 

  

Recommended Study Plan

  

Semester

Compulsory Courses

Optional Courses

I semester

International/Transnational Organizations and European Politics

+

The Making of Europe (The European System of States since 1648)

One  optional course

II semester

Europe and Global Politics 

+

Comparative Politics of Western Europe

One or two optional courses

III semester 

International Relations 

Two or three optional courses

IV semester 

Thesis Writing Seminar

  One  optional course

  

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