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Geopolitics & Geostrategy Online - Bachelor's, Master's, Doctor Ph.D. Degree.
Faculty of Arts & Humanities via distance learning
Geopolitics & Geostrategy via distance learning
This program about geopolitics and geostrategy examines the dramatic effects wrought by ideological, economic, socio-cultural and demographic changes in the context of their human and physical settings, and it explores their geographical influence on foreign policy and international relations. Geopolitics and geostrategy focus on political and military power linked to geographic space. They plan or predict international political behavior through variables such climate, topography, demography, natural resources, and regional technology. Geostrategy also investigates the impact of energy issues in geopolitics.
Academic Supervisor : Anna Sofie Helen Bolin
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Geopolitics & Geostrategy Online via distance learning
Specialist, Bachelor's, Master's, Doctor - Geopolitics & Geostrategy.
This module is applicable to Specialist, Expert, Bachelor's, Master's & Ph.D. (Doctor) Degree Programs. This academic program is designed at the postgraduate level (Master’s or Doctoral). This module may also be adapted to complete the course requirements of Specialist, Expert Diploma or Bachelor’s Degree. A further option is the enrollment into each of the courses listed within this specialization module. This module may be combined or completed with other modules from this faculty. For example: Conflict Resolution - Diplomacy - International Business - International Law - International Relations - International Studies - International Trade - Maritime Port Management - Military Strategy - Peace Studies - Protocol & Etiquette - Translation & Interpretation .
Specialist - Expert Diploma - Geopolitics & Geostrategy Online
Tuition Fee: 1.050 Euros (1.350 US$) ... 1.470 Euros (1.890 US$).
Specialist - Expert Diploma Online: 15 ... 21 Academic credits required for this distance learning degree program. More info...
Composition: Geopolitics & Geostrategy via distance learning = 42 Academic credits - Select 5 courses for the online diploma of Specialist or 7 courses for the Expert Diploma from the total of courses from the specialization module.
Bachelor's Degree - Geopolitics & Geostrategy Online
Tuition Fee: Min. 3.510 Euros (4.420 US$) ... Max. 6.800 Euros (8.700 US$).
Bachelor's Degree Online: 130 Academic credits required for this distance learning degree program. More info...
Composition: Geopolitics & Geostrategy via distance learning = 42 Academic credits + 40 credits in General Education (may be transferred from previous education and professional experience) + Additional courses may be selected from other modules in the Faculty of Arts & Humanities from Bircham International University if required. This selection must be approved by the Distance Learning University Education Board. For example: Military Strategy.
Master's Degree - Geopolitics & Geostrategy Online
Tuition Fee: Min. 4.680 Euros (6.120 US$) ... Max. 7.020 Euros (9.180 US$).
Master's Degree Online: 36 ... 54 Academic credits required for this distance learning degree program. More info...
Composition: Geopolitics & Geostrategy via distance learning = 42 Academic credits + Additional courses may be selected from other modules in the Faculty of Arts & Humanities from Bircham International University if required. This selection must be approved by the Distance Learning University Education Board. For example: Military Strategy. + 13 Academic credits (Research methodology and final project or thesis. More info...).
Doctor Ph.D. Degree - Geopolitics & Geostrategy Online
Tuition Fee: Min. 5.850 Euros (7.650 US$) ... Max. 9.360 Euros (12.240 US$).
Doctor Ph.D. Degree Online: 45 ... 72 Academic credits required for this distance learning degree program. More info...
Composition: Geopolitics & Geostrategy via distance learning = 42 Academic credits + Additional courses may be selected from other modules in the Faculty of Arts & Humanities from Bircham International University if required. This selection must be approved by the Distance Learning University Education Board. For example: Military Strategy. + 18 Academic credits (Research methodology and final project or thesis. More info...).
Payment plans are available upon request up to 36 monthly installments. More info...
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Geopolitics & Geostrategy Online
Courses list (each subject accounts for 3 academic credits):
1 BIU Earned Credit = 1 USA Semester Credit (15 hours of learning) = 2 ECTS Credits (30 hours of study).
You may study any subject as an independent online continuing education course. More info...
Weather & Climate
This course examines weather phenomena, climate and climate change, and the associated effects on individuals and societies in the past and present. The possibility and effects of human-caused changes in the climate system are also discussed.
Academic Supervisor: Eduard Bes Fuster
Human Habitat
This course studies the concepts, methods, techniques, and applications for the analysis of the human habitat, settlements, distribution, population, and cultural environment. It explores the relation of human habitats with available land space, geography, overpopulation, and ecological impact.
Academic Supervisor: Mohammed Said Belkassem
World Geography
This course studies the Earth's total physical environment: atmosphere, water, landforms, soils, and vegetation. It reviews the complete world regional geography and cartography and emphasizes on the interrelationship between human beings and the environment within the global patterns of physical geography.
Academic Supervisor: Mohammed Said Belkassem
Comparative Politics: The West
This course deals with the political institutions and administration in the Western European countries, their interactions, and how the shape the nature of politics in developed industrial countries. The course focuses on Western industrialized countries, which vary in their democratic practices and behavior.
Academic Supervisor: Mª Teresa Martinho Almagro
Comparative Politics: Middle East
This course introduces the dynamics of political behavior in the Middle East. It explains the ideological and cultural foundations, the nature, and the performance of several political systems in this region.
Academic Supervisor: Mª Teresa Martinho Almagro
Comparative Politics: The Far East
This course examines the politics of Asian countries through an overview of the history and culture of selected countries and the study of their emergence as modern nations. Emphasis is placed upon China, Japan, India, Pakistan, Indonesia, and the Philippines. Comparisons are drawn between the various historical and political dimensions of these countries.
Academic Supervisor: Mª Teresa Martinho Almagro
Maritime & Port Economics
This course aims at analyzing seaports and their development in a modern global context, taking into account both their multi-functionality and their potentiality to contribute to the welfare of regions and entire nations. Countries that have easy maritime access benefit from the advantages of an open economy. Moreover, their seaports often are a kind of trigger for achieving full economic development.
Academic Supervisor: Dimitrios Nikolaou Koumparoulis
Natural Resource Economics
This course deals with the economic principles and policy issues in the use of exhaustible and renewable resources including fossil fuels, water, minerals, fisheries, forests, and biodiversity. It considers the management of natural resources on a regional and international scale. It explains how public, economic, and political choices affect environmental degradation and natural resources.
Academic Supervisor: Dimitrios Nikolaou Koumparoulis
Water & Air Quality
This course reviews the control technologies used for management of air, water, and wastewater pollutants. It examines the characteristics of air and water quality; their physical, chemical, and bacteriological parameters; and control measures primarily filtration, sedimentation, coagulation, absorption, chemical treatment, and aeration.
Academic Supervisor: Eduard Bes Fuster
East-West International Relations
This course explains the interaction of Asian countries with the rest of the world during the colonial era, the period of rising nationalism, and in the contemporary political and global economy. It covers the history, emergence, and contemporary politics and problems of selected countries from the East and the West in a comparative manner.
Academic Supervisor: Earle Taylor
World Politics & Globalization
This course discusses the great power relations in the 20th century. Several critical issues of world equilibrium are analyzed, as well as notions of national power, the paths to power, balance of power, and collective security. It presents the instruments of international peace and order. It examines the following topics in international politics: massive destruction arms control, wars of intervention, the environment, global interest versus self-determination, and peace management.
Academic Supervisor: Mª Teresa Martinho Almagro
Geopolitics
This course about geopolitics examines the dramatic effects wrought by ideological, economic, socio-cultural and demographic changes in the context of their human and physical settings, and it explores their geographical influence on foreign policy and international relations.
Academic Supervisor: Anna Sofie Helen Bolin
Military Strategy
This course deals with the art and concepts of warfare from the beginning of recorded history to the present day. It provides an understanding of the interrelations of political, strategic, operational, tactical, and technical levels of war from the past, while bringing into focus the application of these same principles to the battlefields of today.
Academic Supervisor: Anna Sofie Helen Bolin
Geostrategy
This program about geostrategy focuses on political and military power linked to geographic space. It plans or predicts international political behavior through variables such climate, topography, demography, natural resources, and regional technology. Geostrategy also investigates the impact of energy issues in geopolitics.
Academic Supervisor: Anna Sofie Helen Bolin
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Geopolitics & Geostrategy Online via distance learning
Recommended Professional References.
Joining the proper association is the best way to become an updated professional.
Bircham International University graduates may join many professional associations. Membership requirements for each association may vary depending on the degree program, specialization and graduate resume en each occasion. BIU can not guarantee membership in all instances. BIU does not intermediate in these procedures. Bircham International University provides a list of available memberships and professional references from each faculty where some BIU graduates may belong. Contact directly the ones you select. More info...
ADEGI - Associação para o Desenvolvimento dos Estudos Globais e Insulares
AEGES - Association pour les Études sur la Guerre et la Stratégie
ARRI - Association Réalités et Relations Internationales
EADS - Euro Atlantic Diplomacy Society
EISA - European International Studies Association
FRS - Fondation pour la Recherche Stratégique
IRIS - Institut de Relations Internationales et Stratégiques
LASA - Latin American Studies Association
OEI - Organización de Estados Iberoamericanos
SEI - Sociedad de Estudios Internacionales
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Admission requirements - Geopolitics & Geostrategy
Specialist - Expert Diploma, Bachelor's Degree, Master's Degree, Doctor Ph.D. Degree.
For official admission status at Bircham distance education university; you need to send in a filled out, dated, and signed official Application for Admission. You may download this application form from the website or request it by email or mail. Please send this application and enclosed documents to our address. You may also submit this application and attached documents by email in a PDF Format. More info...
Bircham International University issues an admission certificate after receiving your complete application for admission. This document will show the amount of credits transferred and validated from previous education and experience, and the amount of credits required to complete the distance learning degree program's major. Bircham University can not perform this evaluation without the complete application for admission. More info...
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METHOD OF INSTRUCTION: Distance Learning Higher Education
This distance learning education program is completed by a traditional correspondence instruction method. Once you sign up for the course, Bircham International University will send you (to your mailing address) the suggested textbooks. After reading the book, you will be asked to write a 20 to 35 pages report that reflect your understanding of the book. This report is equivalent to the exam and can be submitted by email or mail. Bircham International University will evaluate your written work. If passed, BIU will issue the corresponding diploma. For more instructions about BIU pedagogy, tutoring, and evaluation, please read our distance learning education study guide. More info...
Students enrolling into this distance education program should be aware that:
1. Location: Bircham International University needs a functional geographical location to ship the book and materials for successful completion of this program of study.
2. Communication: Email, courier, phone are key communication instruments with Bircham University that play an important role in the progress and support of this program of study.
3. Capacity: Any impediment, physical or psychological, to read a book and write a report must be communicated to Bircham International University prior to enrollment into this distance learning program.
4. Technology: No specific technology is required to complete this distance education program.
5. Language: Book reading and report writing in other language than English must be requested (and approved by BIU) prior to enrollment in any distance learning program.
6. Discrimination: There is no discrimination with respect to race, color, gender, beliefs or religion.
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Duration - Geopolitics & Geostrategy Online via distance learning
For a program of 21 credits, the estimated time for completion is 21 weeks. For 45 credits, the estimated time for completion will be 45 weeks, and so on. Calculations are approximate. The length of each distance learning degree program is calculated based on an average of 15 hours of learning per week. It also depends on the number of validated credits from previous knowledge and the level of commitment to the studies. More info...
All information related to the distance learning degree programs is in English, although you may, upon request and approval, submit the required assignments in other languages.
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Faculty of Arts & Humanities via distance learning
Geopolitics & Geostrategy Online
Specialist - Expert Diploma, Bachelor's Degree, Master's Degree, Doctor Ph.D. Degree.
