MSc Gender, Rights & Development

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• Academic title
  MSc Gender, Rights & Development
• Course description
  MSc:  12 months full-time
  PgDip:  9 months full-time
  
  This degree offers a thorough academic analysis of one of the most pressing issues in the international development agendas in the contemporary world: the place of gender analysis in rights and development policies. The degree is highly interdisciplinary in nature and draws on the internationally recognised distinction of Glasgow's International Centre for Gender & Women's Studies, the Centre for Development Studies and the Department of Politics.
  
  Content
  
  Compulsory courses
  
      * Engendering rights and development practice
      * Applying gendered analyses
      * Qualitative or quantitative methods.
  
  Plus one course from the Centre for Development Studies either Project planning, appraisal and implementation or Development policy.
  
  Three optional courses normally from the list below
  
      * Politics options: Contemporary Chinese politics; Democratisation in Central and Eastern Europe; EU in international politics and development; The foreign policy of the United States; Freedom of expression; Gender, rights and international law; Human rights and global politics; The internet and civil society; The political economy of Greater China; Political legitimacy: contemporary perspectives; The politics of gender in development; Social justice.
      * Law options (selection): United Nations Law; Environmental law in its international context; Globalisation, law and human rights (access to some law options is limited)
      * Development Studies options (selection): Development policy; Globalisation, trade and economic development; Poverty: concepts, analysis and policies; Aid and development
      * Sociology options (selection): Global ethnography; Gender and society; Sexualities and society.

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