Politics of Global Challenges
Pandemics, migration, rapid technological changes, growing inequality, and ecological problems – we live in a fast-changing global world. Addressing these challenges can no longer be done alone, which is why this program aims to prepare future policy professionals who can not only reach diverse groups (politicians, business representatives, NGOs, etc.) but also unite them for collaborative action. Take on leadership, engage with the most pressing contemporary issues, and contribute to solving the most significant problems in today’s world.
- Focus on current global (international) issues
- Interdisciplinarity not only in terms of topics but also in the composition of teaching teams.
- Focus on applying acquired competencies in practical activities.
- degree of Bachelor of Social Sciences
- Institute of International Relations and Political Science
- 4
- Social Sciences
- Political Sciences
- 240.0
- Full-time
- English
Review and familiarize yourself with the detailed study program plan.
- Students will be able to identify, explain, interpret and critically evaluate the most important theories and concepts of political science, while gaining a knowledge of the basics of social sciences and humanities, which are closely related to political science.
- Students will know and be able to understand the basics of the other fields of science relevant to solving global challenges (new technologies, environment, medical and health sciences) and will be able to connect the existing knowledge, while identifying complex policy issues and major changes.
- Students will know about the latest research on global challenges with political consequences and will be able to refer to these results by creating specific proposals for managing or overcoming these challenges at different levels.
- Students will be able to independently identify relevant topics and those requiring research, formulate a research problem relevant to political science in relation to the global challenges of modern societies, develop that research plan and conduct small-scale scientific or applied research.
- Students will know about the types and principles of social science research design, the most important social science research methods (qualitative and quantitative, including the latest digital research methods), data collection and analysis tools (big data analysis and data visualisation techniques), and will be able to select and apply them in analysing global challenges, as well as critically evaluating their chosen research methodology, while explaining its advantages and disadvantages.
- Students will be able to collect, critically evaluate, interpret and systematise information that is relevant to the research from various (national and international) primary and secondary sources, and will be able to validate it with the assumptions and limitations of their information analysis.
- Students will be able to explain the changing politics and the content, actors, processes and forms of expression in the modern environment, as well as being able to analyse and systematically evaluate them.
- Students will be able to choose complex methodological tools and work together with the representatives of different disciplines, to analyse new occurrences and processes with political consequences and to seek and develop common innovative solutions.
- Students will be able to plan, organise and carry out various professional or analytical activities in organisations that are involved in processes to solve global challenges (especially innovative and interdisciplinary processes) both in Lithuania and abroad, by providing policy analyses, recommendations, strategic planning, policy evaluations, etc.
Entry qualification
Language requirements
English
The following language certificates are accepted for study programmes taught in English: IELTS Academic 6.5+, TOEFL iBT 81+, Cambridge English Exam 176+, Pearson PTE Academic 59+, LanguageCert IESOL B2, Duolingo English Test 120+, Password Skills Plus 6.5+ or another language proficiency certificate equivalent to B2 CEFR (Common European Framework of Reference for Languages).
If your first language is English and/or if you have a university degree in English, you will be exempt from providing an English language test score.
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Tuition fee
Students who are citizens of the European Union, the European Economic Area countries and of other foreign countries, admitted to non-state-funded places in the first year of first-cycle and second-cycle studies through the University’s foreign student application system, must pay the annual tuition fee within 15 calendar days from the date of the offer to study.
After the student pays the tuition fee, he receives the final acceptance letter. Then our International Relations Office provides the necessary information related to obtaining a temporary residence permit in Lithuania and sends a mediation letter to the student by e-mail (for non-EU citizens).
Application fee
The application fee is €100 per application. Each applicant can choose up to three programmes within one application.
Online applications will only be processed once the application fee has been paid.
Please note that the application fee is non-refundable. Make sure you read the admission requirements and deadlines carefully before submitting your application, as the fee cannot be refunded if you are found to be ineligible or miss a deadline.
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