PIR, Year 4Selecting your
CoursesDr Elizabeth Bomberg (Deputy Head, PIR)
Dr Andrea Birdsall & Dr Claire Duncanson (Directors of UG Teaching)
Note: these slides are intended to help you choose next year’s courses. The registration process information and forms will be available here in
June 2014: http://www.sps.ed.ac.uk/undergrad/on_course_students/course_registration_for_continuing_students
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SINGLE HONOURS – Pol and IR
Semester 1• Dissertation• OPTION• OPTION
Semester 2• Dissertation• OPTION • OPTION
COMBINED HONOURSrequirements will depend on your subject - CHECK DRPS!!!!http://www.drps.ed.ac.uk/14-15/dpt/cx_colhss.htm
Semester 1• Dissertation – PIR OR other
subject (NB Languages can choose to do both)• Other subject course • OPTION
Semester 2• Dissertation – PIR OR other
subject (NB Languages can choose to do both)• Other subject course • OPTION
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Optional Courses
• Check PIR options on PIR and DRPS pages
• New PIR courses in 2014-15:• Democracy and its Discontents• Egyptian Politics• International Politics of Money• Political Work• Referendums in Comparative Perspective
• These and other honours options from within the College of Humanities and Social Sciences are described here:
http://www.drps.ed.ac.uk/14-15/dpt/cx_colhss.htm
Dissertation
• What is a dissertation?• How is it assessed?• What do I need to do now and over the summer?• Make sure you register for the right dissertation• Start thinking about topics, research questions, methodologies• Look on LEARN now, and in September for handbook and topic submission
form – ‘Dissertation Preparation’ page
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Leadership Roles and Opportunities
• PIR PALS - http://www.eusa.ed.ac.uk/getinvolved/peer-support/ • PIR SOC - https://www.facebook.com/eupolsoc • EU SOC - https://www.facebook.com/EUSocietyEdinburgh • HEAR – Higher Education Achievement Record http://
www.ed.ac.uk/schools-departments/student-administration/other-info/hear • Edinburgh Award - http://www.employability.ed.ac.uk/Student/EdinburghAward/• PRIZES
• D P Heatley Prize in Politics and IR - most distinguished student in Honours classes in PIR• Russell Keat Prize for the best dissertation in PIR
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Questions?You can ask your PT, or contact the Undergraduate
Teaching office ([email protected]) Or contact the Directors of Undergraduate Teaching,
Andrea Birdsall or Claire Duncanson at: [email protected]