MSc Gender, Development and Globalisation

About the MSc programme

This distinctive interdisciplinary programme focuses on the theoretical analysis of gender, central to developing the necessary analytical understanding to inform policy making and prepares students for independent research leading to an academic career.

This programme is ideal for students with an upper second or first class honours degree (or equivalent). We will consider applicants with a good first degree in any discipline who have (and can demonstrate) a special interest and/or practical experience in this area.

This programme aims to:

• Give students a thorough understanding of economic and social processes that shape the contemporary global world and their gendered outcomes; a knowledge of how gender is theorised, understood and incorporated into development analysis, practice and policy.
• Be of great intellectual value to any student seeking to understand gender issues in a global and transnational context and those seeking to do further research in this field.

Assessment varies by course but generally consists of a mixture of continuous assessment and unseen examinations. The Gender Institute holds a research seminar series with outside speakers fortnightly throughout term time which extends and consolidates issues raised in the main courses. A series of dissertation workshops are held during the Lent term and are compulsory.

All students on the programme will have an academic adviser who will be allocated upon arrival. A dissertation supervisor will be allocated in the Lent term.

The programme is composed of two compulsory courses and a dissertation, plus optional courses to the equivalent of one full unit.

Compulsory courses

• Globalisation, Gender and Development
• Gender Theories in the Modern World: An Interdisciplinary Approach
• A dissertation of 10,000 words to be submitted by 1 September (or the first working day after if it falls on a weekend or public holiday)

Options

(* half unit)

Choose to the value of one unit from:  

• Cultural Constructions of the Body*
• Feminist Political Theory*
• Gender, Knowledge and Research Practice*
• Gender and Militarisation*
• Gender, Post-Colonialism, Development: Critical Perspectives and New Directions*
• Globalising Sexualities*
• Screening the Present: Contemporary Cinema and Cultural Critique*
• Globalisation: Economy, Politics and Power*
• Demography of the Developing World*
• Dilemmas of Equality*
• Gender and Development: Geographical Perspectives*
• Global Civil Society*  
• Migration: Population Trends and Policies*
• Race and Biopolitics*
• Race, Ethnicity and Migration in Britain (post 1945)* 
• Reproductive Health Programme: Design, Implementation and Evaluation*
• Social Psychology of Health Communication*
• Urban Environment*
• Gender and Transition Societies: Politics, Policies and Patterns*

or a course not listed approved by the programme director and subject to space and the course teacher's consent.