This in-person module offers an introduction to the international framework; laws, norms, institutions, that exist for the protection of human rights and refugees. It will encourage critical engagement with the major policy and academic debates in the field through practice-based analysis of these issues.
Through innovative practice-based approaches students will debate and analyse critical issues of human rights and forced migration including by running their own campaign on a related topic. Thus, although we will give due consideration to present ‘crises’, we will also attempt to understand them within their global contexts and to consider the political, social and legal dimensions of the response in contexts around the world, from multiple dimensions including gender and from marginalised groups.
The course has a strong practice element to it, drawing on UN and International Non-governmental organisation resources as well as on research embedded in local communities. Teaching methods are interactive and engaging, including classroom debates, stimulation exercises, and discussion groups. This module can be studied as credit-rated or non-credit-rated.
Course content
Core content includes:
- UN protection framework – is it working?
- Challenges with enforcement
- Political, civil rights
- Social-economic, cultural rights – right to shelter
- Rights of refugees, migrants and asylum seekers
- Displacement, crisis and conflict: the causes of modern forced migration
- The impact of displacement: the psychosocial needs of refugees
- Durable solutions – integration, resettlement and voluntary repatriation
- The role of UNHCR, and refugees as political and social actors
- IDPs and climate change
Cross cutting themes include:
- Gender rights and its applicability to refugees
- Rights of minorities and other vulnerable groups including within refugee populations
Fee information
Course taken for credit: £1.500
The credit-rated CPD module, equivalent to 30 postgraduate credits, requires learners to complete assessments that are practical and focused on strengthening employability skills, such as conducting a conflict analysis. The credits can be counted towards the PG Cert/PG Dip/Masters in Global Development and Humanitarian Practice.
Course taken for non-credit: £450
The non-credit-rated short course leads to a certificate of participation.
How to register
If you want to take the course for credit, you need to register through this link.
The programme is open to candidates who fulfil at least one of the following conditions:
- hold a good honours degree (2.2) 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.
- hold a relevant recognised diploma or professional qualification (eg in architecture, planning, environmental psychology, public health, public administration)
- are in their final year of studying a degree in any relevant discipline
- have substantial and proven field experience.
Please also see the University’s general entry requirements.
If you want to take the course non-credit, you need to register through this link.
There are no specific entry requirements for the non-credit path.
