MSc in Human Rights

Programme Code: TMHURI

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.

Paper

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)

AN439

Anthropology and Human Rights (H) (n/a 15/16)

DV418

African Development (H) 

DV420

Complex Emergencies (H)

DV428

Managing Humanitarianism (H)

DV429

Global Civil Society (H) (n/a 15/16)

EU457

Ethnic Diversity and International Society (H)

EU458

Identity, Community and the 'Problem of Minorities (H)

GI407

Globalisation, Gender and Development †

GI409

Gender, Globalisation and Development: An Introduction (H)  †

GI413

Gender and Militarisation (H)

GI420

Globalisation, Gender and Development: Theorising Policy and Practice (H) †

GI421

Sexuality, Gender and Culture (H) ††

GI422

Sexuality, Gender and Globalisation ††

GI423

Globalisation and Sexuality (H) ††

GI425

Women, Peace and Security (H)

GV408

Contemporary Disputes about Justice (H)

GV442

Globalisation and Democracy (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) 

GV4D7

Dilemmas of Equality (H) (n/a 15/16)

MG476

Corporate Social Responsibility and International Labour Standards (H) (n/a 15/16)

IR422

Conflict and Peace Studies + (n/a 15/16)

IR462

Introduction to International Political Theory (H) (n/a 15/16)

IR463

The International Political Theory of Humanitarian Intervention (H) (n/a 15/16) 

IR464

The Politics of International Law (H)

IR465

The International Politics of Culture and Religion (n/a 15/16)

IR466

Genocide (H)

LL468

European Human Rights Law (H)

LL469

UK Human Rights Law (H)

LL475

Terrorism and the Rule of Law (H)

LL4A6

Climate Change  and International Law (H)

LL4A8

International Law and the Use of Force (H)

LL4A9

Law in War (H)

LL4C2

World Poverty and Human Rights (H) 

LL4E6

International Dispute Resolution: Courts and Tribunals (H)

LL4E8

Law in Society: a Joint Course in Law and Anthropology

LL4H9

Human Rights in the Workplace (H) 

LL4K4

The International Law of Self-Determination (H)

LL4L6

Theory of Human Rights Law (H)

LL4AR

International Criminal Law: Core Crimes and Concepts (H)

LL4AS

International Criminal Law 2: Prosecution and Practice (H)

LL4AW

Foundations of International Human Rights Law (H)

LL4AX

Selected Topics in International Human Rights Law (H) (n/a 15/16) 

LL4BA

International Law and the Movement of Persons Within States (H)

LL4BB

International Law and the Movement of Persons Between States (H)

LL4BY

An Introduction to the International Human Rights of Women (H) (n/a 15/16)

LL4BZ

International Human Rights of Women: Advanced Issues (H) (n/a 15/16)

SA4B5

International Planning and Children's Rights (H)

SA4C8

Globalization and Social Policy (H) 

SA4D5

Social Rights and Human Welfare (H)

SA4H9

Non-Governmental Organisations, Social Policy and Development (H)

SO457

Political Reconciliation (H)

SO479

Human Rights and Postcolonial Theory (H) (n/a 15/16)

SO482

Topics of Race, Ethnicity and Postcolonial-Studies (H)

SO483

Social Change Organizations (H)

4

SO496

MSc in Human Rights Dissertation

Notes

 

+ with the permission of the course proprietor
GI407 cannot be taken alongside GI409 or GI420
†† GI422 cannot be taken alongside GI421 or GI423