MSc Human Rights

Full-year course. Students are required to take one compulsory course, optional courses to the value of two units, and write a dissertation as shown.

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Course number and title

1

SO424 

Approaches to Human Rights

 

Optional Courses to the value of two full units from the following (registration for these options depends on availability, regulations and the conditions of the outside department. Some further restrictions apply to Law Department options that are part of the LLM degree) Access is not guaranteed for any option.

2 & 3

AN436

Anthropology of Development (H) (n/a 11/12)

AN438

Law in Society: A Joint Course in Anthropology and Law

AN439

Anthropology and Human Rights (H) (n/a 11/12)

AN451

Anthropology of Politics (H)

AN456

Anthropology of Economy (1): Production and Exchange (H)

AN457

Anthropology of Economy (2): Development, Transformation and Globalisation (H)

DV411

Population and Development: An Analytical Approach (H) 

DV418

African Development (H) 

DV420

Complex Emergencies (H)

DV428

Managing Humanitarianism (H)

DV429

Global Civil Society (H)

EU448

Minorities and Migration in Europe (H)

EU457

Ethnic Diversity and International Society (H)

GI407

Globalisation, Gender and Development

GI409

Gender, Globalisation and Development: An Introduction (H)

GI413

Gender and Militarisation (H)

GV408

Contemporary Disputes about Justice (H)

GV436

National and Ethnic Conflict Regulation (H) (n/a 11/12)

GV442

Globalisation and Democracy (H) 

GV443

The State and Political Institutions in Latin America (H)

GV465

War, Peace and the Politics of National Self-Determination (H)

GV4B7

The Liberal Idea of Freedom (H)

GV4C2

Globalisation, Conflict and Post-Totalitarianism (H) (n/a 11/12)

GV4D7

Dilemmas of Equality (H) (n/a 11/12)

IR422

Conflict and Peace Studies +

IR462

Introduction to International Political Theory (H)

IR463

The International Political Theory of Humanitarian Intervention (H)

IR464

The Politics of International Law (H)

IR465

The International Politics of Culture and Religion (n/a 11/12)

IR466

Genocide (H)

LL409

Human Rights in the Developing World

LL445

International Criminal Law 

LL452

The International Law of Armed Conflict and the Use of Force

LL453

International Human Rights

LL454

Human Rights of Women

LL460

International Law and the Protection of Refugees, Displaced Persons and Migrants

 

LL468

Human Rights Law: The European Convention of Human Rights (H)

LL469

Human Rights Law: The Human Rights Act (H)

LL4A6

Climate Change: Ethics, Development and International Law (H)

LL4A8

International Law and the Use of Force (H)

LL4A9

Law in War (jus in bello) (H)

LL4B6

Human Rights in the UK

LL4C2

World Poverty and Human Rights (H) (n/a 11/12)

 

LL4E6

International Dispute Resolution: Courts and Tribunals (H) (n/a 11/12)

LL4H9

Human Rights in the Workplace (H)

LL4K4

The International Law of Self-Determination (H)

LL4L4

Law and the Holocaust (H)

LL4L6

Theory of Human Rights Law (H)

SA435

NGOs and Development**

SA4B4

Child Rights, Child Poverty and Development (n/a 11/12)

SA4B5

International Planning and Children's Rights (H)

SA4B6

International Social Policy and Children's Needs (H) (n/a 11/12)

SA4C8

Globalization and Social Policy (H)

SA4D5

Social Rights and Human Welfare (H)

SO447

Topics of Race, Ethnicity and Postcolonial-Studies

SO457

Political Reconciliation (H)

SO461

Racial Formations of Modernity (H)

SO466

Race and Biopolitics (H) (n/a 11/12)

SO467

Race, Ethnicity and Migration in Britain (post-1945) (H)

4

SO499

Dissertation

Notes

 

* subject to space
** Students wishing to take the course should have at least one year's experience of working in or with an NGO (either voluntary or paid experience)
+ with the permission of the course proprietor

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