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Refugee Studies, M.A.
City University London, School of Social Sciences
- Political Science & International Relations
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| Country: | United Kingdom | Duration: | 12 Months |
| City: | London | Start Date: | September |
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| Languages: | English |
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| Application Deadline: | We have no specific application deadline, and an early application is recommended | ||
Programme Description
This innovative and interdisciplinary course is concerned with one of the key global issues of the 21st Century. Conflict, genocide, development, human rights abuses are some of the factors that precipitate refugee crises. The MA provides students with a theoretical understanding of the background and responses to forced migrants and draws on sociological, legal, political, international relations, policy, economic and anthropological analyses.
This course is particularly relevant to those with a personal experience of forced migration as well as those who either work or would like a career working for statutory, NGO or community based organisations that work with refugees and other migrants.
Students on this MA have an opportunity to work on a range of substantive topics ranging from global responses to refugees, human smuggling, refugees and human rights, gender, displacement, humanitarian responses, refugee diasporas and community formation in different regional contexts.
The Department of Sociology has a strong concentration on issues linked to race and ethnicity, global migration, refugee studies and human rights. These areas of specialism provide a focus for the work of the Centre on Race, Ethnicity and Migration (CREM).
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Students may take the MA programme on a full or part time basis.
Duration
Teaching is delivered in the format of lectures, classes and seminars, taking place in the first and second academic periods (September-April).
Full-time students will normally attend for two or three days a week, and complete their dissertation in the third academic period.
Part-time students will normally attend for one or two days each week for two years. In the first year they will take two core modules in the first academic period and two optional modules in the second academic period. In the second year they will take one core module in the second academic period, one optional module in the second academic period and complete their dissertation.
Dissertation The dissertation of 15,000 words carries 40% of the total marks towards the MA degree. Full time students should present their dissertations by September of the year following entrance.
The weighting of the marks is as follows:
* Continuous assessment (coursework) 60%
* Dissertation 40%
Students complete six taught modules from a combination of three compulsory core and three elective options. Students also take part in a dissertation workshop and produce a dissertation over the summer period.
Core Modules - compulsory
* SGM116 Introduction to Refugee Studies
* SGM117 Refugee Rights and Refugee Settlement
* SGM222 Approaches to Social Research
* SGM111 Dissertation
Elective Modules - choose three from this list
* SGM014 Forced Displacement, Resettlement and Social Transformation
* SGM101 Globalisation: Challenges and Transformations
* SGM106 The Sociology of Human Rights
* SGM107 Globalising Cities
* SGM108 Comparative Gender Rights
* SGM109 Rights, Multiculturalism and Citizenship
* SGM118 Crimes Against Humanity
* SGM119 Transnational Policing
* SGM224 Media and Human Rights
* SGM226 Political Sociology
* SGM229 Theories of Race and Ethnicity
* SGM232 Crime and Justice
* SGM233 Global Migration
* SGM234 International Human Rights Law
* SGM235 Media, Crime and Culture
* SGM236 Security and Crime
Courses taught by Centre for International Politics
* IPM004 Global Conflict and Security
* IPM005 International Organisations in Global Politics
* IPM006 NGOs, Human Rights and the United Nations System
* IPM009 Development and International Politics
* IPM008 Theories of International Politics
* IPM010 Political Islam in Global Politics
You are normally required to take an English Proficiency Test if you come from a non-English speaking country.
Most European Universities recognise the IELTS test.
More informationRequirements
The normal requirement is a good honours degree in any subject but applicants are also welcome from those who with substantial experience in the media, information services or the communication sectors.
If your first language is not English you must show evidence that your command of the English Language is suitable for entry to Postgraduate study. You would be expected to have one of the following English Language qualifications:
* A first degree from an overseas institution recognised by the University as providing adequate evidence of proficiency in the English language, for example, from institutions in Australia, Canada or the USA.
* GCE O-level/GCSE English language or English literature, grade C minimum.
* Cambridge ESOL CPE (Certificate of Proficiency in English) at grade C or above.
* An overall score of 6.5 in the English Language Testing System (IELTS) with a minimum of 6.0 for each subtest.
* A score of 600 minimum (computer score 250) in the Test of English as a Foreign Language (TOEFL).
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