Course summary
The increasing number of global humanitarian challenges urges us to rethink the role we play. In the Humanitarian Engineering (with Sustainability) MSc you will focus on renewable energy, sustainable cities and infrastructures for emergencies. Course overview Humanitarian Engineering is the use of science and engineering to invent, create, design, develop, or improve technologies that promote the wellbeing of communities facing grand humanitarian challenges. This degree explores the same broad themes as our main Humanitarian Engineering degree, but with a specific focus on sustainability through tailored core and optional modules.
Modules
Core modules
- Humanitarian Engineering: Ethics, Theory and Practices
- An Introduction to Global Health
- Water and Environmental Management
- One Humanity; Shared Responsibility
- Urban Resilience, Disasters and Data
- Renewable Energy
- Sustainable Cities and Infrastructure for Emergencies
- Industrial Ecology and Sustainable Engineering
- Project
- Humanitarian Law
- Design Thinking for Social Impact
- Challenges to Global Food Security
- Public Engagement
Assessment method
The core modules are assessed in a variety of ways including essay, poster, presentation, artefact, student-devised assessment.
Entry requirements
**Minimum requirements** 2:i undergraduate degree (or equivalent), ideally in Engineering, Science, Social Sciences, Natural Sciences, Humanities, Business or Medical Sciences, although we will consider graduates of all disciplines. **English language requirements** You can find out more about our English language requirements. This course requires the following: - Band A - IELTS Band of 6.5 or more overall, with a minimum writing score of 6.5 and no other subsection below 6.0. **International qualifications** We welcome applications from students with other internationally recognised qualifications. For more information, please visit the international entry requirements page. **Additional requirements** There are no additional entry requirements for this course.
English language requirements
IELTS Band of 6.5 or more overall, with a minimum writing score of 6.5 and no other subsection below 6.0.
Fees and funding
Tuition fees
No fee information has been provided for this course
Additional fee information
Please visit the University of Warwick website for the tuition fees for postgraduate courses:
https://warwick.ac.uk/study/postgraduate/funding/fees
Provider information
University of Warwick
Coventry
CV4 7AL