Human Rights and Social Justice BA(Hons) single honours

Bachelor's degree

In Surrey

£ 9,250 VAT inc.

Description

  • Type

    Bachelor's degree

  • Location

    Surrey

  • Duration

    3 Years

  • Start date

    Different dates available

This course enables you to explore global human rights issues, and to examine how they can be enforced and defended. The curriculum is organised into three broad streams: the history of human rights, understanding human rights, and achieving human rights.

In Year 1, you will study conceptions of human rights across historical and modern contexts, such as the abolition of slavery, the position of women, and the War on Terror. You will assess the practice of human rights organisations, and begin to evaluate tactics for the achievement of human rights.

In Year 2, your choice of topics is flexible. You will consider the concepts of freedom, development and equality, and analyse human rights enforcement. You will apply your knowledge to a range of social, political and economic contexts, such as the Holocaust, Africa, the Middle East or Latin America. You will also have the option to study abroad in Europe, North America or Australia.

Year 3 engages with economic, social and cultural rights, considering armed conflict and other political events. You will undertake an advanced research project on a topic of interest and receive training in research skills. The project culminates with a presentation at our annual student conference.

Facilities

Location

Start date

Surrey
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Kingston Upon Thames, KT2 7LB

Start date

Different dates availableEnrolment now open

About this course

The course will benefit from the expertise and practice of the the newly established Centre for Human Rights and Social Justice Practice at Kingston University.
The course enhances your employability with an approach to learning that emphasises practical tools and skills, and a work placement option through a sandwich year and/or applied research project.
You will be assigned a personal tutor - a member of academic staff who will support your progress at Kingston University. Your tutor will provide academic guidance and help you make the best of the resources and support services offered at Kingston University.
Our integrated study skills programme helps you develop core skills such as researching, essay writing and presenting to support your studies.
The Kingston Language Scheme offers you the chance to learn a language for free. Options include: Arabic, French, German, Italian, Japanese, Mandarin, Portuguese, Russian and Spanish.

Graduates from human rights courses in our department have pursued careers in campaign groups, human rights organisations, the civil service, consultancies, media, or continued with postgraduate study. Other students have continued with postgraduate study in human rights, international relations, law, and politics.

Career opportunities directly related to this degree include policy-making, law and communication roles. The legal aspects of human rights also form a good foundation for law conversion.

Points: 112
Units: to include two A-levels or equivalent
Subjects:
General Studies / Native Language accepted when one of three A-levels or equivalent.
GCSE: Candidates are normally required to hold five GCSE subjects grades A*-C including Mathematics and English Language (or comparable numeric score under the newly reformed GCSE grading). Key Skills Level 2 may be used in lieu of poor GCSEs.

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Subjects

  • Latin
  • Human Rights
  • Politics
  • Political ideology
  • Self-actualization
  • Social Justice
  • Solidarity
  • Contemporary
  • Securing Human Rights
  • Globalisation
  • Development
  • Global governance

Course programme

Module listing

Please note that this is an indicative list of modules and is not intended as a definitive list. Those listed here may also be a mixture of core and optional modules.

Year 1 (Level 4)
  • Another World is Possible: Order and Revolution in Political Ideology
  • Introduction to Human Rights
  • Introduction to International Relations
  • Social Justice: Study, Self-actualization, Solidarity
Year 2 (Level 5)
  • Securing Human Rights: Contemporary Themes and Issues
  • Globalisation, Development and Social Justice
Option modules
  • Modern Political Thought
  • Slavery and Emancipation
  • International Relations and Global Governance
  • Latin America: Power, Politics and El Pueblo Rising
  • Voices of Contemporary Europe
  • Contemporary Issues in Economics
  • Crime, Media and Policy
  • How to Change the World
  • Youth, Crime and Deviance
Year 3 (Level 6)
  • Dissertation
  • Advanced Research Project (Extended)
Optional modules
  • Genocide and Crimes Against Humanity
  • Crimes of the Powerful: Corporations, the State and Human Rights
  • Human Rights and Social Justice in the Arts
  • Identity, Culture, Politics
  • Cold War, Hot War: the Politics of the Middle East
  • Development Economics
  • The Politics of Crime in the Black Atlantic
  • War and Society
  • Migration and Social Transformation
  • Social Intersections: Gender, Race and Class
  • Britain, Europe and the Extreme Right, 1918-to the Present

Additional information

International Fee -:

Foundation: £12,700
Year 1 (2019/20): £12,700 or £14,200
Year 2 (2020/21): £13,100 or £14,600
Year 3 (2021/22): £13,500 or £15,000

Human Rights and Social Justice BA(Hons) single honours

£ 9,250 VAT inc.