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Strategic Studies University of Reading

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Course fee notes

The fees listed are for full-time study, unless otherwise stated, and relate to courses starting in the 2018/19 academic year. Fee information will be confirmed in offer letters sent out to successful applicants.

Course overview

The MA Strategic Studies programme introduces students to the origins and evolution of key strategic concepts.

Under the expert guidance of our renowned academic, you will become familiar with examples of strategic concept application, and the problems and possibilities this poses. Reflect on the relationship between greater political ends, including the use of armed force as the tool of politics, within the context of ethical, legal and economic confines.

You will learn how to apply conceptual frameworks thus acquired to analysis of particular security issues.

This programme is suitable for graduates with a background in any humanities subject, most social sciences subjects, or Law.


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