Postgraduate Degree Programme

MASTER OF International Relations and Diplomacy

Next Term Start: October 14, 2024

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OVERVIEW

The Master’s study in international relations and diplomacy is considered one of the most important specializations that serve the work of institutions specialized in political and international affairs and societal issues. CI Justice is working to develop a curriculum that is compatible with prevailing trends in the world in order to provide students with the opportunity to specialize in areas consistent with the need to develop intellectual capabilities and awareness of the issue of political systems.
The specialization that CI Justice seeks to implement aims to deepen and develop the cognitive and analytical capabilities of the student researching contemporary social and political phenomena, which contributes to raising his efficiency to develop his scientific and practical skills in the career field or in civil society organizations and other fields related to political changes in the political arena in Most of the countries in which he lives.

Vision
Graduating researchers and diplomats.

Mission
Providing community institutions with political competencies capable of representing their countries in international forums.

Key features

  • Enhancing students’ knowledge of the most important issues and developments in international relations.
  • Developing students’ experiences and knowledge about international relations in the Middle East.
  • Providing students with basic theories in this field and enhancing their critical thinking abilities.
  • Providing students with theoretical research skills on the structures, procedures and policies of international and transnational relations.
  • Developing the student’s ability to apply theoretical knowledge in understanding contemporary international relations.
  • Enhancing international experiences for students.

Scientific Research Methodology

Course name: Scientific Research Methodology

Course code: MECO101

Credit hours: 4.00


The course aims to train students to prepare research in economics science, by identifying the most important steps of the research process such as the research problem, scientific hypotheses, concepts and variables, data collection methods, data analysis tools, reaching results and generalizations, in addition to introducing the most important approaches used in field of economics science.
The curriculum’s inputs include: the form and type of knowledge, learners’ characteristics, needs, tendencies and interests, the society’s philosophy, values, hopes and aspirations. The outputs of the curriculum are: knowledge, skills, and attitudes.

The Origins of Political Analysis

Course name: The Origins of Political Analysis

Course code: MPOL102

Credit hours: 4.00


The course presents the concepts, ideas, and tools necessary to analyze politics and understand its facts, and provides a description and analysis of the issues that occupy the mind of contemporary man: democracy, political behavior, political evaluation, policy making, and deals with the issue of power and influence through specific examples of those who have different degrees of them, in order to help the student to Creative awareness of the realities of the world of politics and its makers.
The curriculum’s inputs include: the form and type of knowledge, learners’ characteristics, needs, tendencies and interests, the society’s philosophy, values, hopes and aspirations. The outputs of the curriculum are: knowledge, skills, and attitudes.

 

Political planning and organization

Course name: Political planning and organization

Course code: MPOL103

Credit hours: 4.00

The course includes a study of the concepts of planning and political organization and the most important elements on which these concepts depend to achieve the political goals of states, a study of models of international relations and the nature of the interactions that regulate relations and factors affecting aspects of governance and political organization, and a study of the scientific foundations on which the study of politics is based and an explanation of the role of political ideologies and philosophies in Organizing international political work, studying and studying the most important challenges facing work in the field of politics, and ways to deal with those challenges. Studying the most important aspects of research and development for various systems and political interactions, and predicting political trends and the political decision-making system.
The curriculum’s inputs include: the form and type of knowledge, learners’ characteristics, needs, tendencies and interests, the society’s philosophy, values, hopes and aspirations. The outputs of the curriculum are: knowledge, skills, and attitudes.

Philosophy of Political Science

Course name: Philosophy of Political Science

Course code: MPOL104

Credit hours: 4.00

The course deals with the meaning and function of political philosophy, and then reviews the philosophies of Plato that he presented in his dialogues, as well as Aristotle as the founder of political science, and also the political philosophy of Muslims represented in Al-Farabi and Ibn Khaldun. Then he moves to the modern political philosophy of Hobbes, who worked to reorganize political thought in a rational, materialistic framework, and Hegel’s creations about the state and civil society, leading to the emergence of ideal socialism (utopia) and ending with Marx’s materialistic socialism, which he founded on the basis of Hegelian.
The curriculum’s inputs include: the form and type of knowledge, learners’ characteristics, needs, tendencies and interests, the society’s philosophy, values, hopes and aspirations. The outputs of the curriculum are: knowledge, skills, and attitudes.

The Origins of Geopolitical Science

Course name: The Origins of Geopolitical Science

Course code: MPOL105

Credit hours: 4.00

The Origins of Geopolitical Science
The course contains a study of the concept of geopolitics and the origins on which the science of geopolitics depends and its relationship to various variables, a study of the developments that have gone through the origins of geopolitical sciences and the efforts of researchers towards forming a clear understanding of political geography, and a study of the most important components and ways to understand the interactive relationships between the various components of geopolitical sciences at the level of civilizations and cultures and studying many applied fields through which geopolitical sciences can be effectively employed in various fields, and study the most important areas that need further studies in them in relation to geopolitical sciences and ways to develop applied work in them in improving understanding of the nature of events and developing decision-making systems.
The curriculum’s inputs include: the form and type of knowledge, learners’ characteristics, needs, tendencies and interests, the society’s philosophy, values, hopes and aspirations. The outputs of the curriculum are: knowledge, skills, and attitudes.

International Relations

Course name: International Relations

Course code: MPOL201

Credit hours: 4.00


The course includes an introduction to the student about the development of international relations concepts and theories, and the problems facing the creation of an integrated scientific theory of international relations. The course includes the study of realist theories (power), behavioral theories (systems), and ideal theories (international organizations). It also includes the study of theories of external decision-making, theories of international conflict, its causes, how to manage it, and intervention to solve it.
The curriculum’s inputs include: the form and type of knowledge, learners’ characteristics, needs, tendencies and interests, the society’s philosophy, values, hopes and aspirations. The outputs of the curriculum are: knowledge, skills, and attitudes.

Political Economy

Course name: Political Economy

Course code: MPOL202

Credit hours: 4.00


The course examines the nature of wealth and ways of its formation through the well-known elements of production (labor, nature, and capital) to be distributed to individuals, and also clarifies the importance of taxes and fees imposed by governments, and other topics in a simple form that brings the student closer to major economic concepts that affect his life The daily, such as the concept of political economy science, its topics, curricula, and its relations with other sciences, the nature of the economic problem, methods and tools of economic analysis, economic systems and their types, the most important schools of economic thought.
The curriculum’s inputs include: the form and type of knowledge, learners’ characteristics, needs, tendencies and interests, the society’s philosophy, values, hopes and aspirations. The outputs of the curriculum are: knowledge, skills, and attitudes.

The Origins of Diplomatic and Consular Relations

Course name: The Origins of Diplomatic and Consular Relations

Course code: MPOL104

Credit hours: 4.00


The Origins of Diplomatic and Consular Relations
The course deals with a lot of historical information about the emergence of diplomatic relations and their historical development until the modern era. It also originally clarifies the definition and concept of diplomacy, and indicates the patterns and forms of diplomacy, consular immunity, and diplomacy in its various forms.
The curriculum’s inputs include: the form and type of knowledge, learners’ characteristics, needs, tendencies and interests, the society’s philosophy, values, hopes and aspirations. The outputs of the curriculum are: knowledge, skills, and attitudes.

The Origins of Political Analysis

Course name: The Origins of Political Analysis

Course code: MPOL105

Credit hours: 4.00


The Origins of Political Analysis
The course presents the concepts, ideas, and tools necessary to analyze politics and understand its facts, and provides a description and analysis of the issues that occupy the mind of contemporary man: democracy, political behavior, political evaluation, policy making, and deals with the issue of power and influence through specific examples of those who have different degrees of them, in order to help the student to Creative awareness of the realities of the world of politics and its makers.
The curriculum’s inputs include: the form and type of knowledge, learners’ characteristics, needs, tendencies and interests, the society’s philosophy, values, hopes and aspirations. The outputs of the curriculum are: knowledge, skills, and attitudes.

The Art of Negotiation

Course name: The Art of Negotiation

Course code: MPOL105

Credit hours: 4.00


The course aims to explain the concept of negotiation and its characteristics, identify its types and methods, and help the student to know negotiation methods and skills, especially with regard to the characteristics and skills of a negotiator, the tasks performed by negotiation and its objectives. It also aims to explain the relationship between negotiation and public relations, explaining the objectives and tasks of public relations by presenting the context of the historical development of negotiation and its main areas, touching on the characteristics of negotiation and effective negotiation skills, explaining the essential role that public relations play in the art of negotiation.
The curriculum’s inputs include: the form and type of knowledge, learners’ characteristics, needs, tendencies and interests, the society’s philosophy, values, hopes and aspirations. The outputs of the curriculum are: knowledge, skills, and attitudes.

What will the first stage be?

The student studies eight courses, distributed as follows:

  • √ Six compulsory courses.
  • √Two elective courses from among the courses offered by the faculty for master’s students.
  • The study is conducted through research seminars in each course, and the research seminar relies on multiple references and is in accordance with the scientific research methodology and standards.
  • The study of each of the eight courses takes four credit hours for a minimum of four weeks, and it may be more than that according to the capabilities of each student, after which the student’s competency and knowledge test is held in the course he finished, then he starts in another course in the same way, and so on.
  • Courses studied in the first year, the student has the right to extend the study for a period not exceeding a second year.
  • If a specialization track is chosen within the general program, elective courses will have to be studied from the courses designated for the chosen specialization.

What will the second stage be like?

  • The student is assigned a virtual course that the faculty chooses from among the courses that the student studied at the undergraduate level. This is a practical training for the student, with ten credit hours. The student must divide this course into twelve to fourteen abbreviated lectures.
  • The student presents each lecture in the form of a written summary of its topic in Word format, accompanied by a video recording of it in the student’s voice using the Power Point program. Its duration is not less than ten minutes and not more than twenty. Accurate.

What will the thrid stage be like?

Jury discussion and degree awarding

The minimum period for preparing a master’s thesis is nine months, starting from the date of approval of the University Council to register the subject, and the maximum is two years, which can be extended for a third exceptional year upon the recommendation of the supervisor and the approval of the Faculty Council, provided that the total period of the student’s enrollment in the degree does not exceed four years.
The supervisor submits a semi-annual report that includes what has been accomplished, and what is required in the remaining period.
After the student completes the thesis and the supervisor reviews it, the supervisor submits to the university administration a report stating that it is valid for discussion, including an evaluation of the student’s performance during the thesis preparation period of 140 degrees, along with submitting a full copy of the thesis signed by him, and a letter with the names of the jury proposed by the professors of the specialty, for presentation to the Council the faculty.
It is required that before the student’s discussion, at least fifteen days have passed from the date of approval of the jury committee from the faculty.
The jury committee formed to discuss the thesis is six months, which may be renewed for a similar period based on a report from the supervisor and the approval of the Faculty Council.
The period of validity of the committee formed to discuss the thesis is six months. It may be renewed for a similar period based on a report from the supervisor and the approval of the Faculty Council.
Each member of the jury writes a detailed scientific report on the validity of the thesis for discussion, and evaluates the thesis out of 100 degrees, and the average of the three degrees is taken.
The student may not be discussed unless he obtains at least 70% of the supervisor’s evaluation of his performance and the jury members’ evaluation of the thesis in the individual reports.
Submit a post-dissertation group report signed by all members of the jury evaluating the thesis discussion out of 100.

What will the lessons be like?

Tutorials are usually done online and are always optional.

Webinars are live presentations with module teachers in dedicated online learning rooms and are sometimes recorded.

What about support and other resources?

Throughout your studies, you will have access to our subject-specific student support teams.

They will help you with any general questions about your studies and updates to your account on our educational platform.

To help with your studies, you will also have access to:

Our electronic library, which contains high-quality electronic resources to support your studies
Other university libraries.
Online Help Centre, which contains general information about studying and support at CA Justice, as well as tips on study skills
Microsoft Office 365 for free
IT and computing support from our Computing Help Center.

How will I receive support from specialist academics?

You will have a tutor for each unit, who will introduce himself or herself before the unit starts.

During this unit, they will:

  • Evaluate your assignments and give feedback to help you improve
  • Directing you to learning resources
  • Support you, whether with general study skills or topic-specific help.

How will I study this programme?

With our unique approach to distance learning, you can study from home, work, or on the go.

You will have some assessment dates to keep, but otherwise, you will be free to study at times that suit you, fitting in your learning about work, family and social life.For each of your modules, you will use either online-only resources or a combination of online and print materials.
Each unit you study will have its own online resource
A weekly study planner, giving you a step-by-step guide through your studies
Course materials such as reading, videos, recordings and self-assessed activities
Unit forums for discussions and collaborative activities with other students
Details of each task and its due dates
Tutoring booking system, online tutoring rooms and contact details for your tutor
Online versions of some printed materials and resources.

What about Assessment?

Our assessments are all designed to reinforce your learning and help you show your understanding of the topics. The mix of assessment methods will vary between modules.

Computer-Marked Assignments

Usually, a series of online, multiple-choice questions.

Tutor-Marked Assignments

You’ll have a number of these throughout each module, each with a submission deadline.
They can be made up of essays, questions, experiments or something else to test your understanding of what you have learned.
Your tutor will mark and return them to you with detailed feedback.

End-of-Module Assessments

The final, marked piece of work on most modules.
Modules with an end-of-module assessment won’t usually have an exam.

Exams

Some modules end with an exam. You’ll be given time to revise and prepare.
You’ll be given your exam date at least 20 days in advance.
Most exams take place remotely, and you will complete them at home or at an alternative location.
If a module requires you to take a face-to-face exam, this will be made clear in the module description, and you will be required to take your exam in person at one of our exam centres.

Is CIJustice accredited ?

Without a doubt… CI Justice is fully accredited and International Suleiman University shares its accreditations.

You can view and check our accreditations by clicking here

What are the services and facilities provided to students?

We work to provide all services and facilities to students through the multiple offices and resources at CI Justice. Where each office provides related services. The multiple resources also work to enhance the student’s experience by providing future tools that were designed by experts practicing in the labor market and which help the student develop all the necessary skills, whether applied or theoretical, to excel in the labor market and life after graduation.

What distinguishes your academic staff?

Our academic staff was carefully selected through reviews of the CVs of more than 10,000 academics from all countries of the world, in a way that ensures excellence in the educational process and enhances cultural diversity among students.

What is your relationship with the labor market?

We are proud of our good relationship with major companies in many countries, as we ensure that the student receives sufficient practice during his studies by providing him with training opportunities and assigning him to prepare detailed reports about his practice in the workplace.

How is flexibility available in your programmes?

Flexibility comes in many forms in the programme, whether through teaching and assessment methods, duration of study, or even tuition fees.
The student can find the learning method that suits him best among the three methods that we provide, which are (open learning, virtual learning, and blended learning). After the first semester, based on his cumulative average, he can also accelerate his study period by allowing him to register a greater number of credits. He can also give up the summer vacation and take an additional summer semester. As for tuition fees, if the student achieves a high cumulative average, he can obtain partial scholarships of up to 90% of the tuition fees. Some students from war and crisis countries may be selected to be taught through a 100% scholarship.

Does CI Justice have a license?

certainly! CA Justice is licensed by the UK Government to work in a capacity including:
85421 – First-degree level higher education
85422 – Post-graduate level higher education
85600 – Educational support services
69109 – Activities of patent and copyright agents; other legal activities not elsewhere classified.

You can check this on the official UK Government website by clicking here

Can you provide me with the appropriate support to choose the program that suits me?

certainly! The Guidance and Academic Center works to communicate with potential students and provide all information and details about the academic program that the student will study. We also provide within the initial admission system a tool that helps the student choose the program that suits him by answering questionnaire questions that were designed with paths based on the data.

Does CIJustice have the right to provide learning?

Does CIJustice have the right to provide learning?

By request! We have the authority to provide academic programs with ID 10093951.

You can verify this by checking the official website by clicking here

What are the outcomes of learning, teaching and assessment?

What are the main areas in which my learning will be developed:

  • Knowledge and understanding.
  • Cognitive skills.
  • Practical and professional skills.
  • Basic skills.

The level and depth of learning increases gradually as you progress towards the qualification. You’ll be supported throughout by CI Justice’s unique teaching and assessment method – which includes a personal tutor to guide you and comment on your work; high-quality course texts; e-learning resources such as podcasts, interactive media and online materials; Educational groups and community forums.

Can I continue at CI Justice if I have been educated elsewhere?

If you have already completed some university studies elsewhere, you may be able to count towards this qualification – which could save you time and money by reducing the number of units you need to study. At CI Justice we call this process transfer of accreditation.

It is not only university study that can be taken into consideration, but you can also transfer study from a wide range of professional qualifications to an academic qualification.

Tuition fees


FeesType of fees
175 GBPPer credit
75 GBPSemester registration fee

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