Country: United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, World
Registration deadline: 01 Aug 2019
Starting date: 16 Sep 2019
Ending date: 16 Sep 2021
Our MSc in Humanitarian Practice course is part of the Leadership Education Academic Partnership (LEAP) programme, which crosses traditional subject boundaries to enable you to reflect critically on issues arising from your own work, the wider humanitarian agenda and develop the skills set needed for contemporary humanitarian practitioners.
Focusing on a wide range of humanitarian issues, this course offers a thorough investigation of the agents of change in the humanitarian field. The blended nature of this course promotes lifelong learning.
The MSc is delivered jointly by the Humanitarian and Conflict Response Institute (HCRI) at The University of Manchester and the Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine (LSTM) in partnership withMédecins Sans Frontières (MSF).
It brings together the disciplines of epidemiology, history, politics, anthropology, development studies, international relations, public health, management and humanitarian medicine, as well as the expertise of academics and leading practitioners.
As an HCRI and LSTM student, you will benefit from a comprehensive and interdisciplinary approach to teaching and research, as well as individual tutoring and supervision from academics from a wide range of disciplines.
Aims
The overarching aim of the course is to enhance the leadership and management capacities in medical humanitarian operations through employing multidisciplinary, self-reflective and collaborative approaches and epistemologies and to:
- nurture graduates who are critical thinkers, effective communicators, innovative problem solvers, lifelong learners and ethical leaders with humanitarian principles;
- advance interdisciplinary knowledge to meet the changing operational needs of humanitarian fields;
- lead and excel in professional education, applied research and partnership for the betterment of humanitarian movements.
Teaching and learning
This course combines the required core course units with a wide range of optional courses delivered by both The University of Manchester and Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine.
The core units are delivered as blended learning, which include eight weeks of online learning with two weeks of intensive face-to-face teaching in the middle of the units. Teaching and learning methods include:
- lectures;
- tutorials;
- skills workshops (including action learning sets);
- individual and group presentations;
- group discussion and reporting-back;
- group, paired and individual case study analyses and exercises;
- assignment and work-based projects;
- meetings with mentors;
- reflective reports.
As this is a flexible course, there is no required order to the core units although we suggest that all students complete the Critical Approaches to Evidence unit as their first core unit as it will be an appropriate introduction to the course and master's-level study.
Students will also be able to choose 60 credits of optional units from the wide range of units offered by both institutions.
Course unit details
For the MSc, you will need to complete 180 academic credits. You will take:
- four core units (60 credits),
- a selection of optional units (60 credits),
- a dissertation (60 credits).
Please note that this course offers optional units which have a 10, 15 or 20-credit weighting. To complete the master's, candidates must complete 180 credits including the 60 credits of core units and 60-credit dissertation.
Applicants should ensure that the optional units they select total 60 credits to be eligible for the award.
Other study pathways are also available. To complete a PGCert, you must complete 60 credits within 24 months. To complete a PGDip, you must complete 120 credits within 36 months.
Below is a list of the core modules. Information on all available modules can be found here: https://www.humanitarianleap.org/module-list/
How to register:
Apply here: https://www.manchester.ac.uk/study/masters/courses/list/11957/msc-humanitarian-practice?utm_source=Reliefweb