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Global Development and Humanitarian Practice MA or PGDip or PGCert

Global Development and Humanitarian Practice MA or PGDip or PGCert

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Full time | Headington Campus - Gipsy Lane Site | 1 year | SEP-26

Study mode

Full time

Duration

1 year

Start date

SEP-26

Key information
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Qualification type

MA - Master of Arts

Subject areas

Development Economics Humanities / General Studies / Combined Studies

Course Summary

Are you looking for a master’s programme that combines humanitarian practice, human rights, forced migration, development and conflict studies?

Working with our team of experts and practitioners you can study the political complexities that lead to armed conflict or natural hazards and their links to humanitarian practice and human rights responses. We look at which development approaches have increased the impacts of climate change and disasters and explore challenging questions on whether humanitarian practice does more good than harm? If the international human rights system is failing and how we can support refugees in the 21st century?

Our practice-based learning includes the option of work placement with international humanitarian organisations and NGOs, field trips and assessments, such as writing a policy brief that gives you critical employability skills.

Our students go on to work in humanitarian and development international organisations and NGOs.

Modules

This module provides a basis for you to understand and critically examine development and emergency practice from the perspective of poverty, vulnerability and humanitarian issues involved in the same. The module begins by an enquiry into the development paradigms, and explores experiences of poverty and vulnerability. It introduces you to different analytical frameworks and approaches to development and emergency practice. They include basic needs and social protection approach, livelihoods approach and rights based approach. It further introduces approaches in relation to social groups; such as gender and equity approaches. It also introduces key policy dimensions relevant to the humanitarian sector, including the humanitarian performance appraisal and post-conflict and transitional justice approaches. The module aims to develop an insight into current debates, discussions and understandings within development and emergency practice.

Tuition fees

UK fees
Course fees for UK students

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International fees
Course fees for EU and international students

For this course (per year)

£18,500

Entry requirements

The programme is open to candidates who fulfil at least one of the following conditions: hold a good honours degree in a related discipline such as anthropology, sociology, economics, geography, psychology and other social sciences, architecture, Law, public health, public administration. Other fields are also welcomed, for example, medicine, IT, communications, information systems etc. hold a relevant recognised diploma or professional qualification (eg in architecture, planning, environmental psychology, public health, public administration) are in their final year of studying a degree in any relevant discipline have substantial and proven field experience.

University information

Based in the historic student city of Oxford, Oxford Brookes is one of the UK’s leading modern universities. It enjoys an international reputation for teaching excellence, innovative approaches to learning, and strong links with business and industry. The university welcomes students from more than 150 countries around the world and is proud of its diverse, inclusive community. Oxford Brookes is known for great teaching, equipping students...more

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