MA Applied Human Rights
Course Overview
This course equips aspiring human rights defenders with the critical frameworks and practical skills needed to effect real-world change. You will bridge the gap between academic theory and frontline practice through interdisciplinary study and direct learning from experienced professionals. The program culminates in a hands-on fieldwork placement, allowing you to apply your knowledge in a dynamic environment in the UK or South Africa.
Key Program Highlights
- Learn directly from human rights defenders with first-hand experience in governmental, judicial, and grassroots roles
- Gain practical, hands-on experience through an international fieldwork placement in the UK or South Africa
- Master a versatile toolkit of essential skills including fieldwork, legal analysis, and strategic advocacy
- Explore the strategies, institutions, and political structures that shape modern human rights work
- Combine interdisciplinary academic enquiry with applied practice to understand the entire spectrum of human rights defense
Course Overview
This course equips aspiring human rights defenders with the critical frameworks and practical skills needed to effect real-world change. You will bridge the gap between academic theory and frontline practice through interdisciplinary study and direct learning from experienced professionals. The program culminates in a hands-on fieldwork placement, allowing you to apply your knowledge in a dynamic environment in the UK or South Africa.
Key Program Highlights
- Learn directly from human rights defenders with first-hand experience in governmental, judicial, and grassroots roles
- Gain practical, hands-on experience through an international fieldwork placement in the UK or South Africa
- Master a versatile toolkit of essential skills including fieldwork, legal analysis, and strategic advocacy
- Explore the strategies, institutions, and political structures that shape modern human rights work
- Combine interdisciplinary academic enquiry with applied practice to understand the entire spectrum of human rights defense
Requirements
Modules
- The Practice of Fieldwork
- Project Placement
- Applying Human Rights
- Transitional Justice and Human Rights
- International Human Rights Laboratory
- Backlash and Co-optation: Feminism, Anti-Racism and Human Rights Politics
- Human Rights Defence Clinic
- International Criminal Justice
- Politics of Peacebuilding
- The Causes and Conduct of Conflict
- Mending the Past: History and the Politics of Guilt and Reparation
- De/colonising Memory: Public Histories of Empire, Colonialism and Postcolonialism
- Women, Citizenship and Conflict
- Politics of the Poor
- Theories and Policies of Development Governance
- The Politics of Global Trade
- Social Justice and Political Economy
- Politics of Migration
- Asylum: Theory, Law and Practice of the International Protection of Refugees
- Gendering Politics: An Intersectional Approach
- Auteures: Gender, Power, and Authorship in Film and Literature
- Feminism and Sexuality
- Feminist Research Methodologies
- Freedom, Right, and Revolution: Post-Kantian Moral, Legal, and Political Philosophy
- Law and Society
- Law and Social Control
- Current Issues in Counterterrorism and Media Law
- Mental Health and Mental Capacity Law
- Public International Law
- Sustainability Clinic (Environment and Geography)
- Governing for the Environment
- Global Governance
- Ethics and World Politics
- Principles of Policy Advice
- New Security Challenges
