MA Gender and International Development

2:1 undergraduate degree (or equivalent) in a related subject.

For fees and funding information please see our website

We offer a variety of postgraduate funding options for study at the University of Warwick, from postgraduate loans, university scholarships, fee awards, to academic department bursaries.

Graduates from these courses have gone on to work for employers including various national and international Universities, NGOs and the charity sector, or the civil service. They have pursued roles such as: business and financial project management professionals; higher education teaching professionals; IT project and programme managers; legal professionals and research and development managers.

Our department has a dedicated professionally qualified Senior Careers Consultant offering impartial advice and guidance together with workshops and events throughout the year. Previous examples of workshops and events include:

• Make Your Mark - Careers with a degree in Sociology
• Working for More than Profit
• Warwick careers fairs throughout the year
• Your Sociological future: Sociology Alumni Evening
• My Sociological Future- What next? Career planning for undecided Sociology finalists

Core modules

• Gender, Imperialism and International Development
• Gender Analysis and Development Practice
• Dissertation (Year One full-time and Year Two part-time)

Optional modules

You can take four optional modules, at least one from List (A) and one from List (B). Further modules can be taken from any list but no more than one outside option can normally be taken, from the list of Recommended Outside Options (List D) or, by agreement with the Course Convenor, one module offered by another Department or Centre within the Faculty of Social Sciences.

List A

• Decolonising Ecology: Race, Coloniality and the Climate Crisis
• Feminist and Queer Thinking: Contemporary Challenges
• Feminist Theories and Epistemologies: Debates and Dilemmas
• Indigenous and Global South Feminisms
• Market Life: Wealth and Poverty in Global Capitalism
• Postcolonial Theory and Politics
• Religion and the Planetary Crises
• Reproductive Justice
• Researching Inequality: Race, Class, and Gender in Global Perspective
• Sexualities
• Social Research for Social Change
• Transnational Media Ecologies

List B

• Archival Encounters
• Creative Research Methods
• Qualitative Methods in Social Research
• Quantitative Methods in Social Research
• Understanding Social Science

List C

• Big Data: Hype or Revolution
• Ethnography and the Anthropological Tradition
• Critical Readings in Social Theory
• Key Problems in Criminal Justice
• Mastering Complex Real-World Data
• Queering Sociology
• Social Data Science
• Sociology of End Times
• State of the Art of Sociology

List D

• Women’s Human Rights and Global Justice