Queen’s University has been making a difference to societies locally, nationally and internationally since 1845. We focus on shaping the world around us through our innovative, impactful and world-leading research, focusing on five key areas. Ensuring a healthy living for all through developing solutions and treatments for diseases; helping to deliver a transformative and sustainable economy for future generations; leading on secure connected intelligence and AI and the data revolution. We are at the forefront of delivering future focused through human environment relations; and will continue our strong history of expertise in conflict resolution and building inclusive and cohesive communities.
Academic: GPA of 3.0 or above on their studies to date
English Language:
– IELTS: 6.5 (no subscores below 5.5)
– TOEFL iBT: 90 (reading score minimum 18, writing score minimum 17, listening score minimum 17, speaking score minimum 20)
– Duolingo English Test: not accepted
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16 September 2024 – 13 December 2024
Available Courses
All organisations, irrespective of size, sector or ownership, play an important part of society and serve many important needs. They vary greatly in size, complexity and the activities they undertake. To achieve organisational goals effectively, people working in organisations have to be managed. The module explores three key areas. Firstly, the factors that influence individuals such as personality, attitudes, perception, motivation, learning, communication and job satisfaction. Secondly, the factors that influence the nature of groups and teams and the importance of leadership. Thirdly, the module explores the nature of organisations by analysing issues such as goals, structure, design, control, culture and development
This module conceptualises firms and their management systems as ‘open systems’ which interact with fluid external environments. The module seeks to introduce students to a multi-layered and multidimensional global business environment, highlighting the local, regional and global dynamic of the business environment. The module focuses on the external macro environment of the business organization. Central to the aims of the module is to understand and explain the ways in which firms are influenced by and shape their external environments in pursuit of their goals. The module considers a number of broad societal features and trends, including the role of the state, emerging economies, changing societies, trade dynamics and currency fluctuations, globalization and corporate social responsibility, with respect to dimensions such as the political, macroeconomic and socio-cultural contexts of business activity.
Many students studying for degrees in other disciplines are drawn to economics so that they can develop their analytical skills and also engage with policy debates on issues such as environmental sustainability, inequality, the future of work, financial instability, and innovation. But, when they study economics, they find that their introductory course is arid and theoretical, and designed primarily for students who want to study the subject as their major. The result is that students from other disciplines often find themselves studying a quantitative and analytical economics module that is only minimally social in content and downplays the insights of other disciplines, or a social or business-oriented module that gives them little training in modelling, or in quantitative scientific methods. In contrast, this module draws on the work of the global CORE team to offer students who are not specialist economists an in-depth introduction to economics and the global economy that is both analytical and real-world. The module focuses throughout on evidence on the economy, from around the world, and from history. It is motivated by questions — how can we explain what we see? This module is targeted at UG students who are not taking economics as a major subject but who want to develop their analytical skills and learn how to use economics to understand and articulate reasoned views on some of the most pressing policy problems facing our societies.
Introducing the concept of sustainable environmental management: environmental problems, their causes and sustainability; biodiversity; water resources and water pollution; energy resources; air pollution, climate change and ozone depletion; solid hazardous waste; food security; environmental management systems. Moral and ethical issues of environmental management. During seminars students will discuss major environmental problems through the use of multimedia devices.
The purpose of this course is to explore key themes in British and Irish Politics in a comparative perspective. The aim is to enable students to understand current politics by comparing Britain, Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland to each other and also to other developed democracies. The course opens with two lectures that lay out the ideas behind comparison as a tool of understanding. Subsequent topics include: party systems, electoral systems, government formation, inter-party competition, intra-party competition and devolution. Students should be able to identify what the fundamental differences are between Britain and Ireland in terms of how political life is organised and how citizens think and act politically. Students should also become familiar with the fundamental elements that are shared by the two islands. Students should gain an understanding of what it is about the politics of Britain and Ireland that is unique in a comparative European context. They should also gain insight into the elements of political life on these islands that is common across our European neighbours.
This module sets out to help students understand and analyse the development of International Relations as a discipline through its theories and major issues. The key theories of international relations are examined, from Realism, through Marxism to contemporary approaches such as Poststructuralism, with a focus upon how each one criticizes and responds to the others revealing its strengths and weaknesses. Within this, major issues of international relations will be explored from a theoretical and conceptual perspective, such as the balance of power, peace, international society, norms and gender. Finally, the course turns to modern challenges to the discipline of International Relations, such as International Political Economy, the spread of Globalization, and contemporary concerns with security and the War on Terror. The module therefore considers how well International Relations is responding to these challenges.
What caused the Northern Irish conflict? What factors sustained it? What role did world leaders, paramilitaries, clergy and local politicians play in progressing the peace process? And what role does civil society, arts, culture and heritage play in building social cohesion? This interdisciplinary, team-taught module will draw on expertise from across the School of History, Anthropology, Philosophy and Politics to explore some of the key themes of the Global Bachelor’s Program. Using Northern Ireland as a case study, it will ask questions about the means through which societies can move from conflict to peace, about the roles that various actors can play in conflict resolution, and about the roles that public representations and explorations of the past can play both in entrenching divisions and in furthering peace and mutual understanding.
The module will focus on the nature, causes and consequences of environmental change. Changes in the various aspects of the Earth system including the Earth’s climate, hydrological systems and ecosystems will be investigated. A range of geographical methods will be employed to examine these changes, including palaeo-environmental records. The role of humans in changing the Earth’s environment will be investigated and will be placed in the context of past environmental change and natural variability.
Climate change is one of the most pressing and challenging issues facing humanity. Global temperatures are rising; heatwaves are becoming more frequent and intense; wildfires are burning through vast swathes of forest; ice sheets and glaciers are melting; permafrost is thawing; sea levels are rising; rainfall is becoming more intense and causing increased flooding in some places, yet also becoming more seasonally sporadic and causing increased drought in other places. All the while, the world’s biggest emitters of greenhouse gases have withdrawn from international pledges to curb emissions (USA) and grown their economies through the rapid expansion of fossil fuels (China). This module explores this complex myriad of issues, ranging from the physical scientific basis of climate change to the human response in adapting to and mitigating climate change at the international and individual level. Among the range of hard and soft skills acquired, students will have the opportunity to apply technical climate modelling skills in the production of a report and will also gain experience in communicating complex scientific ideas to a general audience in the production of a portfolio.
The twenty-first century world that we all inhabit and its ‘human geographies’ is not just a product of the ‘modern age’. Rather, the world as we know it today is the result of diverse social, cultural, political and economic processes, of both gradual change and of occasional revolutions, occurring over many centuries, and ongoing still. This module attempts to make sense of these human geographies of the modern world by analysing three important and interconnected geographical themes: specifically, (1) globalism, and past and present local-global connections between individuals and societies; and; (2) geopolitics and the changing relations between regions and nation states (3) the changing scales and practices of everyday life in a globalised world. In addition to developing your geographical understanding of the modern world, the module seeks to develop key study and research skills to prepare you for more advanced study in levels two and three