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MSc in Gender, Peace and Security

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Programme Code: TMGPS

Department: Gender Studies

For students starting this programme of study in 2025/26

Guidelines for interpreting programme regulations

Classification scheme for the award of a taught master's degree (four units)
Exam sub-board local rules

Full-year programme. Students must take four compulsory courses, options to the value of one unit and a dissertation as shown.

Please note that places are limited on some optional courses. Admission onto any particular course is not guaranteed and may be subject to timetabling constraints and/or students meeting specific prerequisite requirements.

Paper

Course number, title (unit value)

Year 1

Paper 1

GI424 Gender Theories: An Interdisciplinary Approach (0.5)

Paper 2

GI425 Introduction to Gender, Peace and Security (0.5)

Plus courses to the value of between 0.5 unit(s) (minimum) and 1.0 unit(s) (maximum) from the following:

GI413 Gender, Race and Militarisation (0.5)

GI427 Research in Global Gender (In)Security (0.5)

Paper 3

Courses to the value of between 1.0 unit(s) (minimum) and 1.5 unit(s) (maximum) from the following: A B

DV428 Managing Humanitarianism (0.5)

DV434 Human Security (0.5) (suspended 2025/26)

DV457 Sexual and Reproductive Health Programmes: Design, Implementation and Evaluation (0.5)

DV462 Forced Migration and Refugees (0.5)

EU485 Post-Conflict Justice and Reconciliation in Europe and Beyond (0.5)

EU4A2 Globalisation, Conflict and Post-Conflict Reconstruction (0.5)

GI402 Gender, Knowledge and Research Practice (0.5)

GI403 Gender and Media Representation (0.5)

GI409 Conceptual Foundations in Gender, Development and Globalization (0.5) #

GI410 Screening the 21st Century: Cinema and Cultural Critique (0.5) #

GI411 Gender, Post/coloniality and Development: Critical Perspectives and New Directions (0.5) #

GI414 Theorising Gender and Social Policy (0.5)

GI415 Gender and Welfare Regimes: Developments and Change (0.5)

GI417 Feminist Population Politics (0.5)

GI420 Feminist Perspectives on Transnational Development (0.5)

GI421 Sexuality, Gender and Culture (0.5)

GI422 Transnational Sexual Politics (1.0)

GI426 Gender and Human Rights (0.5) #

GI428 Bodies, Culture and Politics (0.5)

GI429 Archival Interventions: Feminist, Queer and Decolonial Approaches (0.5) #

GI431 Abolition and Anticarceral Feminisms (0.5) #

GI432 Transnational perspectives on gender, borders and migration (0.5)

GV4B8 Civil Wars: Concepts and Cases (0.5)

GV4F9 The Challenges of Governance in sub-Saharan Africa (0.5)

IR452 Empire and Conflict in World Politics (0.5)

IR466 Genocide (0.5)

IR471 Critical International Law (0.5)

IR494 Conflict and Peacebuilding (0.5) #

LL4A8 International Law and the Use of Force (0.5) #

LL4A9 Law in War (0.5) #

MC422 Critical Studies in Media and Journalism (0.5) #

SO424 Approaches to Human Rights (1.0)

Or a course not listed above, approved by the Programme Director and subject to space and course teacher's consent. 

Paper 4

GI499 Dissertation - Independent Research Project (1.0)

Footnotes

# means there may be prerequisites for this course. Please view the course guide for more information.

A: Paper 3: Subject to availability and timetabling constraints. Students can take courses to a maximum of one full unit from outside the Department of Gender Studies.

B: Paper 3: GI421 cannot be taken with GI422.

Note for prospective students:
For changes to graduate course and programme information for the next academic session, please see the graduate summary page for prospective students. Changes to course and programme information for future academic sessions can be found on the graduate summary page for future students.