Section: Taught Masters Programmes
The Graduate School offers taught MSc/Diplomas in the following areas:
It is a two-year part-time programme. The programme is intended for experienced staff in social work and social care agencies providing services to the Criminal Justice System. Teaching takes place at both the University of Edinburgh and the University of Stirling. The main contributors to the programme will come from teaching staff in the Universities of Edinburgh and Stirling.
This MSc is offered for on a part-time, modular basis, with students able to study anything from an individual course to a full degree. All courses are set at SCQF level 11 (postgraduate level); students may exit the course with a PG Certificate, PG Diploma or Masters degree.
This programme introduces students to the diverse political, historical and cultural dynamics that have played out in Africa in the pre-colonial, post-colonial and contemporary period. Using an interdisciplinary approach, this MSc explores the key debates, dilemmas and practical issues facing Africa and informing our understanding of this complex continent. The MSc provides a broad background in African Studies as well as specialist training in a range of ways to explore, analyse and research Africa.
This programme aims to locate African development firmly in theory and practice. It seeks to contextualise and analyse the processes that have shaped poverty and underdevelopment in Africa, and the many responses to them.
This programme provides students with an advanced understanding of health, illness, and medicine in different social and cultural settings. It explores both traditional healing and modern medical technologies. The MSc provides specialist training in medical anthropology for both social/cultural anthropologists and trained health practitioners. Graduates of this programme will be equipped with the conceptual and methodological skills to engage with the broader debates and dilemmas of contemporary global health practices.
The MSc/Diploma in Childhood Studies is an intensive interdisciplinary degree, providing advanced understanding of how theories, policies and practice conceptualise ‘childhood’ and opportunities for critical review and analysis of how well policies meet the rights of children. It specialises in developing skills for direct research and consultation with children and young people. The degree is a proven route for those who want to work in local, national or international policy, with children and young people directly, and to take up research and participation positions specialising in working with children and young people.
This degree will introduce students to the challenge of making comparative analyses of and for social policy development. It will give them opportunities to develop their analytic and methodological skills for comparative analysis. It will consider the main focal points of comparison in social policy, including the comparative analysis of welfare states, of regions and nations, and of particular policies. These subjects will be examined from an analytic perspective which explores key themes such as the role of context and contraints, the analysis of policy choice, the influence of values and institutions, and the processes of learning and policy transfer.
The MSc is designed to equip students with an advanced, cross-desciplinary knowledge of the legal, political and policy processes of the European Union. The programme enables students to analyse and evaluate alternative explanations for developments in historical and contemporary EU politics and law. The programme prepares students for specialised academic or practical work on the EU.
The MSc will provide you with an overview of the core current discussions and themes of Sociology, including globalisation and the relationship between 'the local' and 'the global', the nature of society and social change illustrated through discussion of substantive topics such as the city, faith and disenchantment, risk, identity and gender.
The programme will cater for a diverse range of students including students with an existing background in law or social and political studies seeking to deepen their knowledge and understanding; students from other backgrounds seeking to develop knowledge in the area with a view to employment opportunities; and international students seeking a UK academic perspective on these global issues.
Offers an advanced understanding of key issues and controversies in contemporary international and European politics. Courses in IEP are grounded in the categories of International Relations, European Studies and Comparative and Regional Politics. IEP thus offers students the opportunity to pursue interdisciplinary studies in a large and intellectually stimulating community and to develop their core interests in one of these streams.
The MSc in IPT seeks to to equip students with the intellectual skills to analyse contemporary international affairs from a philosophically-informed perspective, with a particular focus on their ethical dimensions. Specifically, the programme trains students to apply the methods and intellectual resource of (normative) political theory, or political philosophy, to contexts beyond that of the modern nation-state, and to assess critically how existing transnational institutions meet, or fail to meet, appropriate normative standards.
The MSc in Multi-level and Regional Politics brings the expertise of the faculty members conducting research on multi-level and regional politics, covering the European Union and the usual suspect multi-national or federal states (UK, Germany, Canada, Spain, Italy, Belgium) as well as multi-ethnic states such as Russia and South Africa to both a taught MSc designed to open up careers in policy-making, policy analysis, consultancy or research, and a research-track MSc intended as a gateway to PhD research.
Defining 'ethnicity' is only one part of this very problematic area, at a time when it has become clearer how broad and ramified a phenomenon nationalism is. It calls for a correspondingly broad programme of study, drawing in different disciplines and fields of thought. The MSc/Diploma in Nationalism Studies is essentially inter-disciplinary, designed to give students a broad view of nationalism and of its place in the arena of international relations.
Concerned with analysing the activities of government, in particular the policies of the welfare state. Among the questions addressed are the following: How are priorities chosen? How are policies paid for? How do citizens make their views known? Do policies work? Can they be made more effective? Are those who implement policies sufficiently accountable? Core courses are complemented by courses on research skills and a wide range of options focussing on policy issues in particular areas, including public budgeting, family policy, law and public policy and social policy in Scotland.
The Edinburgh Hansard Research Scholars Programme is a challenging opportunity for graduates and professionals to develop applied knowledge of structures of government and policy processes in the UK, with a particular emphasis on Scotland. It combines masterclasses on democracy and public policy, independent research and a study placement in an organisation involved in public policy in Scotland.
This MSc will equip students with an advanced interdisciplinary understanding of the historical, sociological, political and policy aspects of science and technology as they relate to international development. The programme provides a conceptual and policy-oriented approach the relationships between science, technology and international development. The programme prepares students for specialised practical work in international development or further academic study.
The MSc in Science and Technology Policy and Management is intended to prepare people for positions in policy and management areas dealing with science, technology and innovation, or in other fields where scientific and technological issues and strategies are central, such as medical, environment or development policy.
Aimed primarily at students who do not already have some background in this interdisciplinary field, the MSc in Science and Technology Studies explores the relationship between science, technology and society at a level and a degree of cross-disciplinarity not normally available to undergraduates. It aims to provide a deep understanding of the complex social, economic and political forces shaping science and technology, and to equip students to investigate and reflect on issues surrounding the role and impact of science and technology in society.
This degree offers an intensive introduction to contemporary social anthropology. It is primarily a conversion course intended for graduates with little or no previous training in anthropology; these may be either students contemplating future doctoral research in social anthropology or students who wish to acquire anthropological expertise to supplement their existing range of professional skills.
This degree is intended to provide students with an understanding of the key issues in approaches to, and techniques of research in the social sciences. It can be taken either as a free-standing degree, or during the first year of doctoral study.
The course will equip you with all the practical and theoretical skills necessary for professional recognition by the Scottish Social Services Council and the General Social Care Council.
This page was published on 15 November 2009