Human Rights and Social Justice (MA)

Overview

The MA Human Rights and Social Justice offers a critical overview of the legal and political theory, history and practice of the crucial domestic and international issues of human rights and social justice. It provides you with:

a contextual and critical understanding of ideas of human rights and social justice;
knowledge of how ideas of human rights and social justice are applied in the constitutional, legal and political arrangements of the United Kingdom, the European Union and the international community;
a distinctive course, which, across both the compulsory and non-compulsory modules, examines the content and effectiveness of human rights instruments as incorporated domestically and as applied in the international arena.
The course also provides you with generic skills and abilities in:

identifying and analysing domestic and international human rights laws, instruments and mechanisms;
researching, handling and interpreting information;
structuring and organising documented material;
developing, structuring and defending arguments.
The mode of delivery is student-centred and interactive.


The course will be of particular interest to those with academic and practical interests in the international application of human rights.

Faculty of Law, Governance and International Relations

www.londonmet.ac.uk/depts/lgir/

NB - From September 2012 this course title will change to MA International Human Rights and Social Justice.

Applying and entry

PLEASE NOTE There is no official closing date for this course, but you are advised to apply as early as possible as we will only consider your application if there are places available on the course.

Tel: 020 7133 4202
Email: admissions@londonmet.ac.uk

A good second-class degree in law, politics, philosophy, history, sociology or a related discipline. Applicants with a lower degree may be admitted if they have substantial employment or other experience in the field of human rights or social justice.

Course contents

• History and Theory of Human Rights
• Citizenship and Social Justice
• Legal Research Methodology
• Social Research: Principles and Practice

You must also complete a compulsory triple-module dissertation.

• Human Rights and the International Order
• Human Security
• Human Rights in International and U.K. Law
• Refugees and Human Rights
• Criminal Justice and Human Rights
• International Child Law and Human Rights Law
• Women, Gender and Human Rights
• Labour in the Global Economy
• The Ideology and Politics of Trade Unions
• Global Social Policies
• The History and Sociology of Work
• Understanding Health Policy
• Social Structures and Policies
• Applied Ethics

One free module may be taken from elsewhere in the University's postgraduate provision in place of one of these.

Assessment

Assessment methods various forms of coursework, examination and assessed seminar performance.

Careers

This distinctive and focused course will be of value to those who are looking for enhanced career opportunities within the human rights field. You can also progress to an MPhil or PhD.

Student profiles

What students say about our course

"I have always been interested in human rights and social justice as a philosophy undergraduate. Human rights and social justice MA program at London met teaches theory and practice of human rights in relation to justice and society. Such kind of special focus is rare among the human right MA programs. This was the main aspect of the program that attracted me from the outset.

One year of MA study, in human rights and social justice, has changed my life. During this one year, apart from learning the theory and practice of human rights, I have also learned to how to conduct research and write high quality academic articles. This has helped me to win to scholarships for my PhD study in London met. Besides these academic benefits, one year MA in human rights and social justice helped me to meet people and share my previous experiences with people from all around the world. I would never meet and become friends with people having such variety of backgrounds, without my MA in human rights and social justice.

I would strongly recommend studying MA in human rights and social justice to people interested in learning the history, theory, and practice of human rights, justice and political thought. I would also recommend this program to people, who are interested in meeting with people from different backgrounds."

Mustafa Ongun