Applicant information
What happens after you apply to Bristol?
MSc in Development and Security
| Awards Available | MSc PG Diploma |
|---|---|
| Duration of programme | One year full-time; two years part-time |
| Part-time study available? | Yes |
| Number of places | 50 |
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Programme overview
This innovative programme explores the linkage and tensions between development and security concerns in theory and practice. Specifically, it builds on the unique combination of staff expertise and experience in the School to:
- examine the nature of violent conflict in the world today and the international community's response to it;
- locate this analysis in a comprehensive theoretical understanding of wider development and security studies debates and controversies, particularly in relation to evolving patterns of global governance;
- explore these issues and dilemmas through contemporary, empirical case studies.
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Entry requirements
An upper second-class honours degree or international equivalent. Degrees from all disciplines are considered. In exceptional cases we will consider offering Diploma entry, aiming for upgrade to MSc, for applicants with a lower second-class honours degree.
For information on international equivalent qualifications, please see our International Office website.
Admissions statement
Read the programme admissions statement for important information on entry requirements, the application process and supporting documents required.
Programme structure
The MSc programme lasts 50 weeks (October to September). It comprises six 12-week taught units and six assessed essays followed by a dissertation.
Core units
- Conflict, Security and Development
- Theories of Development
- Theoretical Approaches to Security Studies
Three optional units from the Teaching Block Two list are offered by the School for Sociology, Politics and International Studies. Topics vary each year but may include:
- Managing and Evaluating Development
- Development Skills in Practice
- Environmental Politics
- Politics of HIV/AIDS in Africa
- International Development Organisations
- Gender, Masculinities and IR
- Foreign Policy Analysis
- Research Methods
- Militarisation, Militarism and War
- Discourse Analysis
- International Human Rights
- Politics of Latin America
- Sino-US Relations
- East Asia and Global Development
- East Asia, Europe and Global Integration
- Rethinking the State
- Global Civil Society
- China's International Relations
- Religion and Politics in the West
- Globalisation and Culture
- Philosophy of Social Science
- Nations and Nationalism
- Care, Labour and Gender: International Policy Development
- European Foreign Policy
- Popular Music and Society
- Understanding Risk
- Liberalism, Terror and the Politics of Insecurity
- Nuclear (In)security
A list of current units is available on the SPAIS website.
Third Term
Independent study for dissertation.
Application deadline: 1st July 2014
Get in touch
Graduate Studies Administrator
School for Sociology, Politics and International Studies
University of Bristol
11 Priory Road
Bristol
BS8 1TU
Tel: +44 (0) 117 331 7577
Email: spais-mscenquiries@bristol.ac.uk
Web: http://www.bristol.ac.uk/spais/prospective/prospectivepgt
International students
Open to international students? Yes
English-language requirements: 6.5 overall with 6.0 in all bands, in addition to the standard entry requirements.
Find information for international students on eligibility, funding options and studying at Bristol.
Fees and funding
2014/15 fees
Full-time: UK/EU £6,900;
overseas £14,600
Part-time: UK/EU £3,450;
overseas n/a
Fees quoted are per annum and subject to annual increase.
Funding options
Further information on funding for prospective UK, EU and international postgraduate students is available from the Student Funding Office.
Research Assessment Score
Unit of Assessment 39 applies. Please see complete RAE listings for the University of Bristol for further details.
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