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Registration and qualification
A candidate for registration in the M.Phil./ Ph.D. Course Work Programme must have at least a Masters degree (minimum 2nd class) preferably with a demonstrated ability to undertake high level research with some published work. Direct admission to the Ph.D. programme is open to scholar with teaching and research experience. The minimum duration for presenting a Ph.D. level dissertation is three years and for an M.Phil dissertation one year.

Students are initially enrolled on a provisional basis for a two-semester course work in European Studies. After completing the course work they submit their thesis plans for approval by Karachi University’s Board of Advanced Studies and Research (BASR). The students are then enrolled as full fledged M. Phil./ Ph.D. students. On the recommendation of the supervisor a thesis can be converted from M.Phil. into Ph.D. after considerable work has been done on it.

European Union-sponsored M.Phil Course Work Programme

In September 1999 a European Union-sponsored Programme in European Studies was launched at the ASCE for a three-year period. It was a comprehensive programme covering nearly all the activities of the Centre. Under this EU-sponsored Programme, the European Union rendered technical and financial assistance to the Centre. The updated curricula of the M.Phil./ Ph.D. course work programme (focused on European Union Studies)was mostly taught in the first two years by visiting Professors from European Universities and a Resident Expert from Europe. The Center’s Academic Staff, now trained in European Union subjects from European Universities, have, after completion of the programme in the August 2002, taken over the responsibility of teaching these advanced courses in the programme.

M.Phil Course titles
 1st Semester

1. Contemporary European Philosophy & Political Thought.
2. European History (Part –I)
3. Theory and Practice of European Integration
4. The European Union’s External Relations
5. European Union Law
6. Basic Course in Economics

 

2nd Semester

1. European Monetary Union
2. European History (Part II)
3. The European Union’s Common Foreign and Security Policy
4. Research Methodology
5. Political Geography of Europe

 

Tuition Fees

1st Semester                     Rs. 1650/=
2nd Semester                    Rs. 650/=