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Summary of Degree Programme

Field of Studies

41.04.04 Political Science

Approved by
Directive issued 15.08.2014 No. 6.18.1/1508-10
Last Update
the Academic Council Protocol № 2.6-06.20/100823-4 dated 10.08.2023
Network Programme

No

Length of Studies, Mode of Studies, Credit Load

2 years

Full-time, 120

Language of instruction

ENG

Instruction in English

Qualification upon graduation

Master

Double-degree Programme

No

Use of online learning

With online tools

Tracks

2023/2024 Academic year

Public Policy Analysis

Type: General
Track Supervisor: Uldanov, Artem
Language of instruction: English
Use of online learning: With online tools
Qualification upon graduation: Магистр
Key learning outcomes:

KER-1 Designs basic and applied research, including that carried out by a team, with a focus on the latest PoliSci methodologies and overarching academic approaches

KER-2 Draws up analytical summarizing materials (reviews, memos, reports, recommendations, etc.) and proposals for persons engaged in political decision-making.

 KER-3 Employs up-to-date communication technologies in English and other languages to interact with academic and expert communities, public authorities and administrative bodies (including for the purpose of presenting results of theoretical and applied research to different audiences)

KER-4 Employs up-do-date databases, academic literature in scholarly and professional activities and applies appropriate methods to undertake academic and applied studies in an interdisciplinary manner

KER-5 Analyzes empirical data (from political, economic and sociological research) relying on the latest qualitative and quantitative methods and with the use of the relevant software

Description of the professional field:

Students of the Programme are trained to perform the following professional activities :

  • Research and Teaching;
  • Administrative Activities;
  • Expert and Analytical Activities;
  • Project Activities;
  • Communications and Consulting

List of professional competencies of the graduate includes the following:

1 Able to design basic and applied research, including that carried out by a team, with a focus on the latest PoliSci methodologies and overarching academic approaches

2 Able to use modern empirical databases (including foreign resources) in one’s academic and project activities, as well as independently develop databases for research and practical purposes

3 Able to analyze social and political processes in individual countries of the world and in the world as a whole using the methodology and methods of modern social sciences

4 Able to independently devise strategies for presenting the results of one’s professional activities, including public presentations, through selecting the relevant communication and information technologies and channels for disseminating information.

5 Able to employ up-to-date communication technologies in English and other languages to interact with academic and expert communities, public authorities and administrative bodies (including for the purpose of presenting results of theoretical and applied research to different audiences)

Description of educational modules:
  • Mandatory courses
  • Electives
  • MagoLego module - courses for self-selection of students
  • Key seminars
  • Research practice - term papers and graduation papers
  • Student projects

Politics. Economics. Philosophy

Type: General
Track Supervisor: Ananyin, Oleg I.
Language of instruction: English
Use of online learning: With online tools
Qualification upon graduation: Магистр
Key learning outcomes:

KER-1 Designs theoretical and applied research, including that conducted in teams, based on modern theories and methods of political science and economics and adhering to interdisciplinary approach; conducts original interdisciplinary theoretical and applied research

KER-2 Analyzes social processes in individual countries of the world and in the world as a whole based on modern social sciences’ achievements

KER-3 Employs up-do-date databases, academic literature in scholarly and professional activities and applies appropriate methods to undertake academic and applied studies in an interdisciplinary manner

KER-4 Prepares, on an individual or group basis, analytical materials (reviews, notes, reports, recommendations, etc.) and recommendations for decision-makers based on results of interdisciplinary research

KER-5 Employs up-to-date communication technologies in English and other languages to interact with academic and expert communities, public authorities and administrative bodies (including for the purpose of presenting results of theoretical and applied research to different audiences)

Description of the professional field:

Students of the Programme are trained to perform the following professional activities :

  • Research and Teaching;
  • Administrative Activities;
  • Expert and Analytical Activities;
  • Project Activities;
  • Communications and Consulting
List of professional competencies of the graduate includes the following:

1 Able to design theoretical and applied research, including that conducted in teams, based on modern theories and methods of political science and economics and adhering to interdisciplinary approach; able to conduct original interdisciplinary theoretical and applied research

2 Able to analyze social processes in individual countries of the world and in the world as a whole using the methodology and methods of modern social sciences

3 Able to employ up-to-date databases, academic literature in scholarly and professional a

Description of educational modules:
  • Mandatory courses
  • Electives
  • MagoLego module - courses for self-selection of students
  • Key seminars
  • Research practice - term papers and graduation papers
  • Student projects

Russian Studies: Russian Politics and Society in Comparative Perspective

Type: General
Track Supervisor: Makarenko, Boris
Language of instruction: English
Use of online learning: With online tools
Qualification upon graduation: Магистр
Key learning outcomes:

KER-1 Designs theoretical and applied research, including that conducted in teams, based on modern theories and methods of political science; conducts original theoretical and applied research

KER-2 Analyzes social and political processes in Russia (also accounting for the international context) based on modern social sciences’ achievements

KER-3 Employs up-to-date databases, academic literature in scholarly and professional activities and applies appropriate methods to conduct academic and applied research on Russian issues

KER-4 Prepares, on an individual or group basis, analytical materials (reviews, notes, reports, recommendations, etc.) and recommendations for decision-makers based on results of interdisciplinary research

KER-5 Employs up-to-date communication technologies in English and other languages to interact with academic and expert communities, public authorities and administrative bodies (including for the purpose of presenting results of theoretical and applied research on issues of Russia’s development to different audiences)

Description of the professional field:
Students of the Programme are trained to perform the following professional activities :
  • Research and Teaching;
  • Administrative Activities;
  • Expert and Analytical Activities;
  • Project Activities;
  • Communications and Consulting

List of professional competencies of the graduate includes the following:

  1. Able to design theoretical and applied research, including that conducted in teams, based on modern theories and methods of political science; conducts original theoretical and applied research
  2. Able to analyze social and political processes in Russia (also accounting for the international context) based on modern social sciences’ achievements
  3. Able to employ up-to-date databases, academic literature in scholarly and professional activities and applies appropriate methods to conduct academic and applied research on Russian issues
  4. Able to independently or on a group basis prepare analytical materials (reviews, notes, reports, recommendations, etc.) and recommendations for decision-makers based on results of interdisciplinary research
  5. Able to employ up-to-date communication technologies in English and other languages to interact with academic and expert communities, public authorities and administrative bodies (including for the purpose of presenting results of theoretical and applied research on issues of Russia’s development to different audiences)
Description of educational modules:
  • Mandatory courses
  • Electives
  • MagoLego module - courses for self-selection of students
  • Key seminars
  • Research practice - term papers and graduation papers
  • Student projects

2022/2023 Academic year

Public Policy Analysis

Type: General
Track Supervisor: Uldanov, Artem
Language of instruction: English
Use of online learning: With online tools
Qualification upon graduation: Магистр

Politics. Economics. Philosophy

Type: General
Track Supervisor: Ananyin, Oleg I.
Language of instruction: English
Use of online learning: With online tools
Qualification upon graduation: Магистр
Key learning outcomes:

1 Designs theoretical and applied research, including that conducted in teams, based on modern theories and methods of political science and economics and adhering to interdisciplinary approach; conducts original interdisciplinary theoretical and applied research

2 Analyzes social processes in individual countries of the world and in the world as a whole based on modern social sciences’ achievements

 

3 Employs up-do-date databases, academic literature in scholarly and professional activities and applies appropriate methods to undertake academic and applied studies in an interdisciplinary manner

4 Prepares, on an individual or group basis, analytical materials (reviews, notes, reports, recommendations, etc.) and recommendations for decision-makers based on results of interdisciplinary research

5 Employs up-to-date communication technologies in English and other languages to interact with academic and expert communities, public authorities and administrative bodies (including for the purpose of presenting results of theoretical and applied research to different audiences)

Description of the professional field:

Students of the Programme are trained to perform the following professional activities :

  • Research and Teaching;
  • Administrative Activities;
  • Expert and Analytical Activities;
  • Project Activities;
  • Communications and Consulting
List of professional competencies of the graduate includes the following:

1 Able to design theoretical and applied research, including that conducted in teams, based on modern theories and methods of political science and economics and adhering to interdisciplinary approach; able to conduct original interdisciplinary theoretical and applied research

2 Able to analyze social processes in individual countries of the world and in the world as a whole using the methodology and methods of modern social sciences

3 Able to employ up-to-date databases, academic literature in scholarly and professional activities and to apply appropriate methods to undertake academic and applied studies in an interdisciplinary manner

4 Able to independently or on a group basis to prepare analytical materials (reviews, notes, reports, recommendations, etc.) and recommendations for decision-makers based on results of interdisciplinary research

5 Able to up-to-date communication technologies in English and other languages to interact with academic and expert communities, public authorities and administrative bodies (including for the purpose of presenting results of theoretical and applied research to different audiences)

Description of educational modules:

Mandatory courses

Electives

MagoLego module - courses for self-selection of students

Key seminars

Research practice - term papers and graduation papers

Student projects

Russian Studies: Russian Politics and Society in Comparative Perspective

Type: General
Track Supervisor: Makarenko, Boris
Language of instruction: English
Use of online learning: With online tools
Qualification upon graduation: Магистр
Key learning outcomes:

1 Designs theoretical and applied research, including that conducted in teams, based on modern theories and methods of political science; conducts original theoretical and applied research

 2 Analyzes social and political processes in Russia (also accounting for the international context) based on modern social sciences’ achievements

3 Employs up-to-date databases, academic literature in scholarly and professional activities and applies appropriate methods to conduct academic and applied research on Russian issues

4 Prepares, on an individual or group basis, analytical materials (reviews, notes, reports, recommendations, etc.) and recommendations for decision-makers based on results of interdisciplinary research

5 Employs up-to-date communication technologies in English and other languages to interact with academic and expert communities, public authorities and administrative bodies (including for the purpose of presenting results of theoretical and applied research on issues of Russia’s development to different audiences)

Description of the professional field:

Students of the Programme are trained to perform the following professional activities :

  • Research and Teaching;
  • Administrative Activities;
  • Expert and Analytical Activities;
  • Project Activities;
  • Communications and Consulting
List of professional competencies of the graduate includes the following:

1 Able to design theoretical and applied research, including that conducted in teams, based on modern theories and methods of political science; conducts original theoretical and applied research

2 Able to analyze social and political processes in Russia (also accounting for the international context) based on modern social sciences’ achievements

3 Able to employ up-to-date databases, academic literature in scholarly and professional activities and applies appropriate methods to conduct academic and applied research on Russian issues

 4 Able to independently or on a group basis prepare analytical materials (reviews, notes, reports, recommendations, etc.) and recommendations for decision-makers based on results of interdisciplinary research

5 Able to employ up-to-date communication technologies in English and other languages to interact with academic and expert communities, public authorities and administrative bodies (including for the purpose of presenting results of theoretical and applied research on issues of Russia’s development to different audiences)

Description of educational modules:

Mandatory courses

Electives

MagoLego module - courses for self-selection of students

Key seminars

Research practice - term papers and graduation papers

Student projects

2021/2022 Academic year

Politics. Economics. Philosophy

Type: Research
Track Supervisor: Mironyuk, Mikhail
Language of instruction: English
Use of online learning: With online tools
Qualification upon graduation: Магистр

Politics. Economics. Philosophy

Type: General
Track Supervisor: Ananyin, Oleg I.
Language of instruction: English
Use of online learning: With online tools
Qualification upon graduation: Магистр

Russia in Comparative Perspective: Politics, Society, Cultures

Type: Applied
Track Supervisor: Makarenko, Boris
Language of instruction: English
Use of online learning: With online tools
Qualification upon graduation: Магистр
Competitive Advantages
  1. For many decades, the social sciences have rewarded narrow specializations in both topic and methodology, believing this to be the best way to achieve results. The established systems of higher education have also strongly supported this trend through the development of stand-alone departments. However, today, the task of addressing real-life economic, social, political and environmental problems and designing appropriate policy responses requires a combination of approaches and bodies of knowledge across different sciences and intellectual traditions. Real-world problems like climate change, pollution, crime and disease recognize no state borders, so the tradition of insulating disciplines, methodologies and geographic areas of expertise is harmful because it allows disciplinary biases and blind spots to obscure needed solutions. Faced with these challenges, academics, activists, and policymakers should build on a growing trend towards research and policymaking that promotes creativity and sustainability by explicitly working at the interdisciplinary crossroads of the social sciences and humanities and within teams of open- minded individuals from diverse intellectual backgrounds.

  2. The Master’s Programme “Politics. Economics. Philosophy” offers training that cuts across three core disciplines in the social sciences and the humanities. Our programme combines the attention to modern problems and an emphasis on rigorous methods of research and evidence-based policy advice and expertise in Political Science and Economics, with sensitivity to normative and ethical issues required to implement policy in the real world that derives from Philosophy. In this respect the Master’s Programme “Politics. Economics. Philosophy” follows in the traditions of the great thinkers of the past (“standing on the shoulders of giants”) and the spirit and purpose of the Oxford-style Politics, Philosophy, and Economics programs to address the pressing issues of today.

  3. The “core” of the program is supported by blocks (modules) of disciplines aimed at developing specific competencies and allowing students to develop systematic ideas about the interconnections between political and economic processes in modern society and to become fully prepared to solve complex problems in multidisciplinary and international teams.

  4. The Master’s Programme “Politics, Economics, Philosophy” encourages students to do research into the political, economic, and moral dimensions of real-life social problems of various origins and to integrate tools and insights from its three core disciplines with an eye on changing the world for the better.

  5. The student body consists of individuals with diverse national and educational backgrounds.

  6. The Programme welcomes international student mobility. Among our partners are PPE Programme at Witten/Herdecke University, Germany; Philosophy & Economics Programme at Bayreuth University, Germany.

  7. Cooperation with centres and labs in the Higher School of Economics where students can take part in research and applied projects. The list of partners includes Laboratory for Monitoring the Risks of Socio- Political Destabilization, the International Center for the Study of Institutions and Development, Joint Department with Centre for Political Technologies, etc.

  8. Agreements for students’ internship placements with research centres in HSE and external research organizations, including the Centre for Political Technologies, Institute of Scientific Information on Social Sciences of the Russian Academy of Sciences, etc.

Professional Activities and Competencies of Programme Graduates

Students of the Programme are trained to perform the following professional activities as stated by the Educational Standard of Higher Education of National Research University Higher School of Economics in Political Science (Master’s Degree Level):

  • Research and Teaching;
  • Administrative Activities;
  • Expert and Analytical Activities;
  • Project Activities;
  • Communications and Consulting.

List of professional competencies of the graduate includes the following:

  • has the capacity to use up-to-date research findings in Political Science and the cognate disciplines, to apply Political Science’s approaches to practical tasks in one’s professional activities;
  • has the capacity to work with up-to-date academic literature and to analyze the state-of-the-art and rising trends in Political Science;
  • has the capacity to use up-to-date empirical databases in one’s academic and project activities, as well as to develop databases for research and practical purposes independently;
  • has the capacity to analyze empirical data (from political, economic and sociological research) relying on the latest qualitative and quantitative methods and with the use of the relevant software;
  • has the capacity to build and analyze mathematical models for socio-political systems and processes;
  • has the capacity to design academic and applied research, including research carried out by teams, with a focus on the most up-to-date methodologies, methods and approaches employed by Political Science, Social Sciences and the Science in general;
  • has the capacity to plan and organize political (advocacy) campaigns;
  • has the capacity to organize and carry out political analysis of socially significant projects;
  • has the capacity to establish professional communications with the authorities and municipal administrations;
  • has the capacity to independently draw up analytical materials (reviews, memos, reports, recommendations, etc.) and proposals for participants of political decision-making.
Programme Modules

Adaptation courses:

  • Political Science
  • Economics
  • Mathematics

Core courses:

  • Modern Political Science
  • Contemporary Economics
  • Methodology and Research Methods of Political Science and Economics
  • Intellectual History (Economic, Social and Political Thought)
  • Data Analysis in the Social Sciences
  • Foundations of Public Policy
  • Policy Analysis in theory and practice

ECONOMICS

  • State and Economy
  • Anti-corruption and compliance in contemporary public policy
  • Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR): business and state

POLITICS

  • Explaining Contemporary Russian Politics: Institutions and Practices
  • The international politics of security strategies: The EU, Russia and strategic studies
  • Transformations of Post-Soviet Space: Politics, Societies, Economies

PHILOSOPHY

  • Political Ethics
  • Philosophy of New Social Movements
  • Psychology of Thinking and Reasoning

RESEARCH TOOLS

  • Research Seminar
  • Key Seminar
Options for Students with Disabilities

This degree programme of HSE University is adapted for students with special educational needs (SEN) and disabilities. Special assistive technology and teaching aids are used for collective and individual learning of students with SEN and disabilities. The specific adaptive features of the programme are listed in each subject's full syllabus and are available to students through the online Learning Management System.

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Vice Rector Sergey Yu. Roshchin

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