The programme comprises six courses and a dissertation, and is available both on a full-time and a part-time basis.
Core Courses
The programme comprises two core courses:
These two courses are offered in Autumn and Spring respectively. The first aims to give you a firm grounding in the key theoretical concepts and debates, and familiarity with leading figures in the field. The second provokes you to think about how to research nationalism, and presents a diverse range of actual cases/topics, as researched by members of our staff. It is designed to help you explore topics and approaches for your dissertation.
Optional Courses
You can choose your remaining courses from a range substantive ones which may vary from year to year, and includes:
Dissertation
The dissertation offers you the chance to chose and explore a topic in-depth, working with the guidance of an academic supervisor. It is an ideal chance to get to grips with an issue that fascinates you, and excellent preparation for further graduate level study.
Previous dissertation topics have included:
- The contribution of civil society to peace in Northern Ireland
- Identities in conflict: Sudanese refugee identity regimes as constructed by the state, and the aid workers that assist them
- The role of the military and geopolitics in the articulation of Pakistan's national identity
- Is this my nation? Post-conflict nation-building and collective reconciliation in Rwanda and South Africa
- Speaking freely: a linguistic analysis of the Kurds in Turkey and Iraq
- The construction of a civic national identity in Kosovo
- Rising nations, falling state? The emergence and implications of neo-nationalism in Scotland and Wales
- Behind the ideology of the welfare state: national identity and immigration in Denmark
- One hundred and fifty years of Italian unification: To what extent can we call Italy a unified nation?
- Speaking for the nation: an analysis of the linguistic policies carried out in Catalonia and Flanders
- China: an imagined online community and a closed regime
- What impact does EU membership have upon the national identities of EU member states?
- "To be a free people in our land": the Israel-Palestine conflict as a case study in accommodating nations with overlapping sovereignty claims
- Consequences of total defeat: national identities in post-war Germany
- Making Georgian Nationalisms
- Nationalism and the State: the case of Kyrgyz-Uzbek inter-ethnic relations
- Anti-South Korea Sentiment on the Chinese Internet
- Mobilising the Nation: the Eisteddfod, Welsh nationalism, and the significance of place
- National Identity and the Constitutional Change in Stateless Nations: An Analysis of Scotland
- The effects of further decentralization processes on nationalist movements
- 'Contesting the Nation': A Case Study of Maltese Nationalism
- The Role of Partition and Ethnic Separation in Resolving Ethno-nationalist Conflict
- A Pleasant Nationalism: Social Democracy in Swedish National Identity
- Language, Citizenship and Identity: Comparing Quebec and Hong Kong
- The Invention of Samba and National Identity in Brazil
- Social Memory and Collective Trauma Theories: the case of Post-Soviet Georgian Nationalism
- Nationalism and schooling in the Japanese Empire, 1890-1945
- The tranquil and the troubled: the emergence and development of Icelandic and Irish Nationalism
- A Side Effect of Federalism? Secessionism in Canada and the United Kingdom
- Carrying the Banner: The Impact of Migration on Irish Identity
- Catching God's Coattail. Comparing Bismarck's and Kohl's Nationalism
- Nation rebuilding in Rwanda and South Africa: An Assessment of Identity Formation, Governance and Economic Growth
- The New Social Contract: Ernest Gellner and the Defence of Western Society
- National Identity in the US Borderlands How American are Mexican Americans?
- Accommodating Diversity and Promoting Integration: An Examination of Multiculturalism and Civic Nationalism
- Ethnic Nation Building and multicultural demands in Kazakhstan
- Power, Nationalism and Human Bombs. Underlying Power Relationships of Suicide Terrorism in the Palestinian Nationalist Movement