Gender, Violence and Conflict MA

University of Sussex

Master

In Brighton

£ 8,500 VAT inc.

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Description

  • Type

    Master

  • Location

    Brighton

  • Duration

    1 Year

Engage critically with debates around the relationships between gender, violence and conflict. You’ll consider perspectives from anthropology, international relations, sociology and law. You have the opportunity to explore critical and feminist approaches to social research and its ethics.

The course focuses on:

gendered experiences of violence
conflict and peace
militarisation
masculinities and femininities
representations, embodiments and the institutionalisation of violence.

Facilities

Location

Start date

Brighton (East Sussex)
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Sussex House, BN1 9RH

Start date

On request

About this course

This MA is for you if you’re working in – or planning to work in – the fields of:

international development and diplomacy (including on gender, gender-based violence, conflict and security, and peace-building)
the charity sector/NGOs
various activist movements, women’s rights, and peace and justice nationally or internationally.

Graduate destinations
90% of students from the Department of International Relations were in work or further study six months after graduating. Recent School of Global Studies graduates have gone on to jobs including:

researcher, International Centre for Parliamentary Studies
policy advisor, Actionaid
researcher, Inkerman Group.

You should normally have an upper second-class (2.1) undergraduate honours degree or above.

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Subjects

  • Human Rights
  • Conflict
  • International
  • Global
  • Knowledge
  • Power
  • Resistance
  • Dissertation
  • Research
  • Professional

Course programme

Modules

These modules are running in the academic year 2018/19. We also plan to offer them in future academic years. They may become unavailable due to staff availability, student demand or updates to our curriculum. We’ll make sure to let our applicants know of such changes to modules at the earliest opportunity.

Core modules

Core modules are taken by all students on the course. They give you a solid grounding in your chosen subject and prepare you to explore the topics that interest you most.
  • Dissertation (GVC)
  • Gender, Conflict and Peace
  • Research Methods and Professional Skills (Int Dev)
  • Sex and Violence (IR)
Options

Alongside your core modules, you can choose options to broaden your horizons and tailor your course to your interests.
  • Dissertation with Placement (Global Studies)
  • Activism for Development and Social Justice
  • Childhood and Youth in Global Perspective; Rights, Protection and Justice
  • Conflict, Security and Development
  • Critical Reading in Advanced Gender Theory
  • Doing Gender in Theory and Practice
  • Feminist Approaches on Global Development, Resistance and Transformation
  • Gender Politics and Social Research
  • Global Queer
  • Hate Crime and Sexual Violence
  • Human Rights and the Politics of Culture
  • Human Rights in International Relations
  • Knowledge, Power and Resistance
  • New Security Challenges
  • Poverty, Violence and Conflict
  • Refugees, Displacement and Humanitarian Responses
  • Sexuality and Development: Intimacies, Health and Rights in Global Perspective
  • The Body: current controversies and debates
  • The Middle East in Global Order
  • Theoretical Approaches to Gender and Development
  • Transnationalism, Diaspora and Migrants' Lives
  • Understanding Processes of Social Change
  • Women and Human Rights

Additional information

International students: £16,750 per year

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Gender, Violence and Conflict MA

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