MA Human Rights - Law/Political Science Pathway (Standard Route)

For entry in the academic year beginning September 2027, the tuition fees are as follows:

• MA (full-time)
  UK students (per annum): £16,600
  International, including EU, students (per annum): £29,800
• MA (part-time)
  UK students (per annum): £8,300
  International, including EU, students (per annum): £14,900

The fees quoted above are fully inclusive of tuition, administration and computational costs.

Fees for entry are subject to yearly review. The University reserves the right to increase your tuition fee by up to 7% each year for courses lasting more than one year, including to reflect rising costs associated with delivering our educational and wider student experience. Postgraduate fees information .

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International student CAS deposit

Self-funded international applicants are required to pay a deposit of £2500 towards their tuition fees before a confirmation of acceptance for studies (CAS) is issued. Some applicants will be required to pay a higher deposit. More information on tuition fee deposits .

All students should normally be able to complete their programme of study without incurring additional study costs over and above the tuition fee for that programme. Any unavoidable additional compulsory costs totalling more than 1% of the annual home undergraduate fee per annum, regardless of whether the programme in question is undergraduate or postgraduate taught, will be made clear to you at the point of application. Further information can be found in the University's Policy on additional costs incurred by students on undergraduate and postgraduate taught programmes (PDF document, 91KB).

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This course will:

• Review several developments in social, political, philosophical, and cultural theories of gender and sexuality
• Evaluate the form and structure of theoretical arguments from different disciplinary perspectives
• Assess the ways in which ideas are produced and distributed through processes grounded in the material working practices of academia and publishing, including those of reading and writing
• Encourage graduate students to exchange ideas and critical responses to theories of gender and sexuality as members of a seminar group.

• To review several developments in social, political, philosophical, and cultural theories of gender and sexuality
• To evaluate the form and structure of theoretical arguments from different disciplinary perspectives
• To assess the ways in which ideas are produced and distributed through processes grounded in the material working practices of academia and publishing, including those of reading and writing
• To encourage graduate students to exchange ideas and critical responses to theories of gender as members of a seminar group.

On completion of this unit, successful students will be able to:

• discuss and engage with key texts within recent theories on gender and sexuality
• place debates around gender and sexuality in their historical and theoretical contexts

In addition, the students will develop and build on:

• critical reading skills
• ability to discuss and engage with texts
• ability to develop coherent, structured arguments

10 x weekly 1 hr lecture & 10 x weekly 1 hr seminars

Assessment is by a 3,000 word assessed essay (100%)

Non-assessed essay plan (0%)