Course summary

Choose your start date. You have six opportunities to join this course throughout the year. Course Overview: Our International Relations MA course focuses on global challenges such as conflict, sustainability and human rights. It is open to graduates from any field, offering you the opportunity to learn new skills and knowledge to help you negotiate key issues that affect and shape the global community.

• Understanding global action: explore the actions of governmental, inter-governmental and non-governmental agencies, private enterprises and international bodies in relation to key threats to international cohesion.

• Peacebuilding and security: explore key challenges to global security and the processes of restoring peace.

• Assessing power: analyse the motivations of key powerbrokers and their impact upon the global community.

• Build experience with global experts: develop theoretical knowledge whilst gaining practical insights from speakers and organisations working on global challenges.2

• Engage in applied learning: apply your understanding of international conflict management to real-world challenges through practical exercises such as crisis simulations and model United Nations (UN) activities.

• Innovative teaching: our teaching, learning, and assessment opportunities are enhanced by personalised attention to help achieve your career aspirations. Workshops are interactive, supportive learning environments. Assessments are varied, providing you with an opportunity to create a broad portfolio of experience and skills.

• Broaden your employability: take an employability-focused approach to learning, building a portfolio of skills that you can use to pursue a career in a wide range of fields, from the Civil Service to the Diplomatic Corps, governments, NGOs and transnational organisations such as the UN.