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MA - Master of Arts
City Campus
Part Time
Sep 2026
2 Year
Explore some of the key challenges facing nations today. You’ll join an academic community dedicated to progressive social change on this master’s course. Explore a wide variety of current issues around the world such as trade negotiations and social inequality. You’ll develop an understanding of these challenges at a local and global level. As part of this international relations course, you’ll: Discover how the study of international relations has evolved and developed over time Consider traditional theories of international relations and how they compare with contemporary thinking and current events Study global institutions such as the World Bank, the United Nations and the EU, and the role they play on the political stage Gain insight into how global institutions deal with the shifting political and social issues that influence decision making at a regional, national and worldwide level Explore the impact of globalisation and understand its consequences for international society Learn from experts You'll join an academic community with a variety of research interests and expertise. Our staff and students share a desire for progressive social change, locally and globally. Strengthen your employability As well as developing academic expertise, your course will also focus on employability, personal effectiveness, advocacy, activism and research skills so you’re in a strong position when you graduate.
You'll study one of the following core modules: Global Policymaking: Environment & Human Rights, Theorising Human Rights.
Optional modules may also be available for this course.
You'll study one of the following core modules: Global Policymaking: Environment & Human Rights, Theorising Human Rights.
Learn how to deploy the principal classical and contemporary theories of International Relations by developing theory within the context of modern and historical case studies. Optional modules may also be available for this course.
You'll study one of the following core modules: Global Policymaking: Environment & Human Rights, Theorising Human Rights.
Optional modules may also be available for this course.
You'll study one of the following core modules: Global Policymaking: Environment & Human Rights, Theorising Human Rights.
Explore the contested conceptualisation of human rights, via universalist/relativist and cosmopolitan/communitarian debates, and locate the theorisation of rights within the broad schools of international relations thought. You’ll study the tensions that emerge through the institutionalisation of rights at an international level, the operation of sovereignty and the politics of rights at a group and individual level. Optional modules may also be available for this course.
