MA in Global Urban Justice

Year 1

(Award available for year: Master of Arts)

Learning outcomes

1. demonstrate a well-grounded knowledge and critical understanding of scholarly work in urban justice and injustice using social, cultural, feminist, urban, political and environmental debates from the global north and south
2. work with a range of practitioners from civil society and deploy a range of transferable skills of relevance for employment in non-governmental organisations, charities, think-tanks, research consultancies, campaign and community groups and for starting up an enterprise
3. demonstrate a knowledge and an ability to interrogate contemporary geographical debates around social, spatial and environmental justice, and their impacts on new forms of citizenship, urban and environmental politics, political activism across the world.
4. engage with and apply a range of advanced social science methodologies with a particular emphasis on participatory and action research techniques and to employ them as appropriate in their own research work
5. formulate, plan, and prosecute successfully a sustained piece of geographical research at a level preparatory for further research for a higher degree;

Transferable (key) skills

Masters (Taught), Postgraduate Diploma & Postgraduate Certificate students will have had the opportunity to acquire the following abilities as defined in the modules specified for the programme:
-the skills necessary to undertake a higher research degree and/or for employment in a higher capacity in industry or area of professional practice;
-evaluating their own achievement and that of others;
-self direction and effective decision making in complex and unpredictable situations;
-independent learning and the ability to work in a way which ensures continuing professional development;
-critically to engage in the development of professional/disciplinary boundaries and norms.

Assessment

Achievement for the degree of Master (taught programme) will be assessed by a variety of methods in accordance with the learning outcomes of the modules specified for the year/programme and will involve the achievement of the students in:
-evidencing an ability to conduct independent in-depth enquiry within the discipline;
-demonstrating the ability to apply breadth and/or depth of knowledge to a complex specialist area;
-drawing on a range of perspectives on an area of study;
-evaluating and criticising received opinion;
-make reasoned judgements whilst understanding the limitations on judgements made in the absence of complete data.

Please refer to full programme proposal form for Assessment grid of core modules.