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STRUCTURE OF THE MASTERS PROGRAMME

The workload per one academic year is 1600 hours which corresponds to 60 ECTS credits. Students enrolled in this joint Master's Programme may take classes offered at both the cooperating universities. At least some courses will be simultaneously taught at both universities via video-links between classrooms in Vasa and Tampere.

Foundation studies 25 ECTS

• Introduction to Peace and Conflict Studies 1 & 2 (10 ECTS)
• Scientific writing (5 ECTS)
• Research Methods (10 ECTS)

Compulsory Advanced studies 25 ECTS

• Theoretical and Philosophical studies (10 ECTS)
• Elective Advanced studies (10 ECTS)
• Thesis Seminar (5 ECTS)

Specialization studies (Choose at least 2 courses from A and at least 2 courses from B, altogether 35)

If you choose the internship, then complete 30 ECTS with courses.

A Analytic Conflict Research (at least 10 ECTS)

Åbo Akademi University

• Aggressive Behavior (5 ECTS)
• Child Abuse and Domestic Violence (5 ECTS)
• Understanding Violence (5 ECTS)
• Cross-Cultural Psychology (5 ECTS)
• Mass Medias Role with Crisis (5 ECTS)
• Political Psychology (5 ECTS)
• Crisis & Trauma: PTSD and Other Long- term Effects (5 ECTS)

University of Tampere

• Approaches to Analytic Conflict Research (5 ECTS)
• Human Mobility in Peace and Conflict Research (5 ECTS)
• Visual Peace Research: The Visual Construction of Knowledge in Peace and Conflict Research (5 ECTS)
• Power of Identity: Nationalism, Memory & Conflicts (5 ECTS)
• Peace Ethics, Philosophy and Modernity (5 ECTS)
• From Colonial to Post-Colonial Conflicts (5 ECTS)

B Conflict Resolution and Peace Mediation (at least 10 ECTS)

Åbo Akademi University

• Conflict Studies: Theory &Models (5 ECTS)
• Conflict Studies: Strategies and Practices (5 ECTS)
• The Power of Nonviolence (5 ECTS)
• Conflict Resolution from a Legal Perspective (5 ECTS)
• Conflict Resolution in a Cross-Cultural Perspective (5 ECTS)
• Peaceful Societies and Peace Systems (5 ECTS)
• Peacemaking & Reconciliation (5 ECTS)

University of Tampere

• Cultures, Dialogues, Conflicts (5 ECTS)
• Peacemakers: an individual-related approach to understandings of peace (5 ECTS)
• International Peace Building: Historical and Critical Approach (5 ECTS)
• Environmental Dimensions of Conflicts and Peace Building (5 ECTS)
• Resolution of Regional Conflicts (5 ECTS)
• Peaceful Change and Security Community Building (5 ECTS)
• Peace Psychology (5 ECTS)

C Optional internship (5 ECTS)

Thesis 35 ECTS

Requirements

• Academic requirements:
  
  • A three-year Bachelor, Master or equivalent diploma in the Humanities, Social Sciences or Behavioral Sciences (e.g., peace & conflict studies, international relations, history, anthropology, psychology, education, and administrative sciences).
  • A good knowledge of English for academic purposes (common requirements for all English taught Master's programmes at UTA, please see below). Work experience relevant to the programme or other relevant merits and qualifications may be taken into account. Mastering of second foreign language is a merit.

• The selection of new students is based on the relevance and success of prior studies, university records and the statement of purpose (motivation letter). Relevance of prior studies and the applicant's motivation are carefully considered. Applicants are advised to explain their reasons for applying to this programme specifically. In addition, work experience relevant to the programme or other relevant merits and qualifications may be taken into account.

In order to increase the chances of being admitted to this programme, applicants are advised that they may want to apply to both Åbo Akademi University and the University of Tampere. Note that in order to do so the applicant must complete an application form for each subject and send in the application forms and the necessary sets of enclosures to both universities. If the applicant is applying to more than one subject and verifying his/her language skills with the same language test, University Admissions Finland needs to receive the test result only once.

The necessity of sending an application form and the necessary set of enclosures to both universities is due to the fact that the applications will be processed at each university separately. The applicant must also put the subjects / universities applied to in order of preference (this is done by answering a question related to the order of preference in the application form). Please note that at the University of Tampere applicants are allowed to choose a maximum of two subjects to which they wish to apply.

Language requirements

A good command of English for academic purposes is required for all degree programmes offered by the University of Tampere. We accept the following tests as a proof of a good command of English:

• TOEFL, Test of English as a Foreign Language
  Minimum score: 90/Internet-based, 575/paper-based
• IELTS Academic, International English Language Testing System
  Minimum score: 6.5 with no individual score below 5.5
• PTE, Academic English Language Proficiency test by Pearson;
  Minimum score: 62

Preliminary information

Applicants who have taken their Bachelor studies and obtained their Bachelor's degree in English in one of the following countries are exempt from the language test: Australia, Canada, Ireland, New Zealand, the United Kingdom and the United States. In addition, in Master's Programme in Peace, Mediation and Conflict Research, also a degree taken in English in one of the Nordic countries or Finland is accepted as a proof of English proficiency.

English Language Requirements