MASTER
INTERNATIONAL PUBLIC AFFAIRS
About the program
GENERAL OBJECTIVES & CAREER OPPORTUNITIES ![]() This two-year degree program aims to prepare future professionals of public affairs for higher adaptability to multicultural and increasingly digital work environments, while contributing to advancing the local, national and global sustainable development and social responsibility efforts.
More specifically, the program creates and develops expertise in international public affairs particularly (but not exclusively) for
In addition, the program provides the opportunity to develop specific expertise and skills which are currently in high demand for
CURRICULAR STRUCTURE
Among the very few of its kind in the world and unique in both Romania and the region, the program focuses on professional and individualized training, with about 80% of the instruction time allocated to seminars, policy workshops, internships, individual tutoring and professional mentoring.
FOUNDATIONAL MODULE
CORE CONCEPTS, ANALYTICAL COMPETENCE & POLICY WORKSHOP MODULES
INTERNSHIP MODULES
INDIVIDUALIZED PROFESSIONAL TRAINING
CAPSTONE PROJECT
Instead of an MA thesis, at the end of the program students are required to defend publicly a capstone project (i.e. application of the knowledge and skills acquired throughout the program to examine or evaluate a specific real life problem).
TEACHING STAFF All FSPUB and associated teaching staff members hold a PhD in social sciences or humanities (political science/international relations, sociology, economy, law, philosophy or contemporary history) and have pursued postgraduate studies at top European and North American universities such as the Central European University, University of Oxford, University of Cambridge, London School of Economics and Political Science, McGill University, Pennsylvania State University and others. FSPUB teaching staff
Former teaching staff Laurențiu ȘTEFAN, current Ambassador of Romania in the Republic of IrelandMost of these instructors have also collaborated as consultants/independent experts with numerous strategic partners from the labour market in the field of international public affairs such as the Romanian Ministry of Foreign Affairs, the Romanian Ministry of Labour, the Romanian Cultural Institute, various foreign embassies and cultural institutes present in Romania, the United Nations Development Program (UNDP), UNICEF and the World Bank Group. Apart from an individual academic supervisor from the faculty for the entire duration of their studies, all students have also access to different mentors from partner institutions in the field of international public affairs which are active in Romania or abroad.
In addition, students are also fully integrated into projects within which they are required to develop solutions to real problems of the partner institutions.
This program is academically coordinated within the faculty's Department of Comparative Governance and European Studies (DCGES). The guest events are organized with the support of the Centre for International Cooperation and Development Studies (IDC) within the DCGES.
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