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MSc in Human Rights and Politics

Programme Code: TMHURIP

Department: Sociology

For students starting this programme of study in 2022/23

Guidelines for interpreting programme regulations




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.

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)

Paper 1

SO4B1 Contemporary Politics of Human Rights (1.0)

Paper 2

Courses to the value of 1.0 unit(s) from the following:

 

SO457 Political Reconciliation (0.5)

 

SO479 Human Rights and Postcolonial Theory (0.5)

 

SO490 Contemporary Social Thought (0.5)  (not available 2023/24)

 

SO4B3 Seeing like an NGO: Human Rights in Practice (0.5)  (not available 2023/24)

 

SO4B5 The Anticolonial Archive: The Sociology of Empire and its Afterlives (0.5)

 

SO4B6 Nature and Technology: More than Human Sociology (0.5)  (not available 2023/24)

 

SO4B7 Lawful Violence (0.5)

 

SO4B8 Internationalism and Solidarity (0.5)

 

SO4C1 Fascism, Authoritarianism, Populism (0.5)

 

SO4C6 Reading Black Thought (0.5)

Paper 3

Courses to the value of 1.0 unit(s) from the following (unless taken in Paper 2):

 

AN436 The Anthropology of Development (0.5)

 

DV418 African Development (0.5)

 

DV420 Complex Emergencies (0.5)

 

DV428 Managing Humanitarianism (0.5)

 

DV465 Global Health Work: Expertise and Labour (0.5)

 

EU457 Culture and Security in Global Politics (0.5)

 

EU458 Narrating Migration in a Global Europe (0.5)

 

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

 

GI407 Globalisation, Gender and Development (1.0) 1  (not available 2023/24)

 

GI409 Gender, Globalisation and Development: An Introduction (0.5) 2

 

GI413 Gender, Race and Militarisation (0.5)

 

GI420 Global Development and Its Discontents: Feminist Perspectives (0.5) 3

 

GI421 Sexuality, Gender and Culture (0.5) # 4

 

GI422 Transnational Sexual Politics (1.0) 5

 

GI423 Globalisation and Sexuality (0.5) # 6  (not available 2023/24)

 

GI425 Introduction to Gender, Peace and Security (0.5)

 

GI426 Gender and Human Rights (0.5) #

 

GV408 Contemporary Disputes about Justice (0.5) #  (withdrawn 2023/24)

 

GV4B7 The Idea of Freedom (0.5) #  (not available 2023/24)

 

GV4D7 Dilemmas of Equality (0.5)

 

IR464 The Politics of International Human Rights (0.5)

 

IR465 The International Politics of Culture and Religion (1.0) #  (not available 2023/24)

 

IR466 Genocide (0.5)

 

MG476 Corporate Social Responsibility and International Labour Standards (0.5) #

 

MY423 Interview Methods for Social Science Research (0.5) #

 

SO457 Political Reconciliation (0.5)

 

SO479 Human Rights and Postcolonial Theory (0.5)

 

SO490 Contemporary Social Thought (0.5)  (not available 2023/24)

 

SO4B3 Seeing like an NGO: Human Rights in Practice (0.5)  (not available 2023/24)

 

SO4B5 The Anticolonial Archive: The Sociology of Empire and its Afterlives (0.5)

 

SO4B6 Nature and Technology: More than Human Sociology (0.5)  (not available 2023/24)

 

SO4B7 Lawful Violence (0.5)

 

SO4B8 Internationalism and Solidarity (0.5)

 

SO4C1 Fascism, Authoritarianism, Populism (0.5)

 

SO4C6 Reading Black Thought (0.5)

 

SP416 International Planning and Children's Rights (0.5)  (not available 2023/24)

 

SP418 Global Social Policy and International Organizations (0.5)

 

SP439 Social Rights and Human Welfare (0.5) #  (not available 2023/24)

 

Any of the MSc courses offered in any department or institute at ÐÓ°ÉÂÛ̳, so long as they are relevant to the programme of study, and subject to the approval of both Programme Director and course teacher.

Paper 4

SO4B2 MSc in Human Rights and Politics Dissertation (1.0)

Prerequisite Requirements and Mutually Exclusive Options

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

1 : GI407 can not be taken with GI409, GI420

2 : GI409 can not be taken with GI407, GI420

3 : GI420 can not be taken with GI409, GI407

4 : GI421 can not be taken with GI422, GI423

5 : GI422 can not be taken with GI421, GI423

6 : GI423 can not be taken with GI421, GI422

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