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MSc PG Dip PG Cert Social Justice & Community Action (Online Learning)

  • DeadlineStudy Details:

    MSc 3 years PT, 2-6 years PT intermittent study; PGDip 2-4 years PT intermittent study; PGCert 1-2 years PT intermittent study

Course Description

Our life chances are shaped by our family and community relationships, access to good quality public services, the particular features of our governing institutions and levels of economic inequality. That life chances are unequally distributed across the globe, and within particular countries, is an injustice.

The MSc in Social Justice and Community Action is a part-time, online masters programme, designed to equip you with the knowledge and practical skills to help you make positive social change. It offers you the opportunity to critically engage with foundational ideas and debates about social justice, relate these ideas to your own practice context, and consider a range of approaches in communities, in policy and in different organisational contexts.

Entry Requirements

A UK 2:1 honours degree or its international equivalent.

Fees

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Programme Funding

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Student Destinations

This programme is designed for professionals working on social justice issues in diverse contexts, notably research and policy, grassroots practice, education, and for recent graduates who wish to gain the skills to enter the social justice field.

Students will acquire the skills applicable to social justice work in the public, third and private sectors. Graduates may find career opportunities, or opportunities for career advancement, in diverse contexts such as grassroots community practice, education, public policy development, policy advocacy, social research in non-governmental organisations or in the public/private sectors, or research.

Module Details

Compulsory courses:

  • Theories and Politics of Social Justice
  • Community Engagement: Co-Constructing Knowledge with Communities

And one of:

  • Organisational Management for Social Justice
  • Introduction to Learning for Sustainability
  • Policy Analysis for Social Justice
  • Learning for Democracy

Option courses:

Any of the above courses which you have not yet taken plus:

  • Activist Social Research
  • Displacement and Development
  • Key Skills in Development Practice
  • Digital Education in a Global Context

You may also choose from a wide range of online courses provided elsewhere in the University, for example:

  • Analysing Development
  • Climate Change Mitigation
  • Global Development Challenges
  • Global Health Governance
  • Health Inequalities and the Social Determinants of Health
  • Introduction to Learning for Sustainability
  • Learning for Democracy
  • Organisational Management for Social Justice
  • Policy Analysis for Social Justice
  • Roots of African Poverty and Development
  • Politics and Theories of International Development
  • Public Health and Health Policy

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