Master of Arts - Development and Emergency Practice
- 1 year
- Duration
- 17,350 GBP
- Price
- Rolling admission
- Start
- Rolling admission
- Deadline
- Master
- Degree
- Campus
- Format
- Oxford / United Kingdom
- Location
- Oxford Brookes University
- School
Program description
With our Development and Emergency Practice course, you may develop your knowledge, abilities, and attitudes in the quickly evolving field of development and emergencies. Examine how development and emergencies are related, with a focus on practice.
The Centre for Development and Emergency Practice, which administers this programme, has a reputation for quality around the world.
The course offers three sub-specialisations:
- Human rights, emergencies and development
- Disasters, risks, shelter and development
- Conflict and Humanitarian Action
With extra modules, you can customize this course to fit your interests. Look into common study themes:
- Refugee experience, conflict transformation, humanitarianism and role of human rights
- Global civil society, vulnerabilities caused by climate change and modern development
- Design in development and emergency contexts
Program structure
Year 1
- Critical Inquiry Development & Emergencies: Theory and Policy (20 credits)
- Research Methods and Design (10 credits)
Optional Modules
- Conflict, Violence and Humanitarianism (20 credits)
- Working with Conflict : practical skills and strategies (10 credits)
- Refugees: Forced migration, Protection and Humanitarianism (20 credits)
- Disasters, Risk, Vulnerability and Climate Change (20 credits)
- Design in DEP (20 credits)
- Human Rights & Governance (20 credits)
- Humanitarian Action: Responding to crisis in 21st Century (10 credits)
- Programming and Partnerships (10 credits)
- Shelter after Disaster (20 credits)
- Global Civil Society (20 credits)
Optional Independent Study Module (10 credits)
Price
- Tuition Fee - 17,350 GBP
Requirements for applicants
Specific Entry Requirements
- Honours degree in a related discipline such as anthropology, sociology, economics, geography, psychology and other social sciences, architecture, Law, public health, public administration. Other fields are also welcomed, for example, medicine, IT, communications, information systems etc.
- Relevant recognised diploma or professional qualification (eg in architecture, planning, environmental psychology, public health, public administration)
- Students must be in their final year of studying a degree in any relevant discipline
- Have substantial and proven field experience
English Language Requirements
- Academic IELTS 6.5 overall with 6.0 in all components
About the university
The history of Oxford Brookes University spans more than 150 years. We began as a modest School of Art in rented classrooms and have expanded into one of the UK's top modern universities with a reputation for distinction in teaching and research on the local, national, and worldwide levels.
Our primary goal is to provide a top-notch educational experience that helps each of our graduates to be competent, self-assured, and prosperous. The standard of instruction students receive is an integral component of this.
Oxford Brookes works with a wide range of partners both domestically and internationally. Our connections are essential to improving our instruction, research, and information sharing. Additionally, they provide our students a wealth of placement, internship, and employment options.
In cooperation with our Associate College Partners as well as directly, we offer a variety of higher education and degree apprenticeships (ACPs).
