Bachelor of Arts (BAEcon)

BAEcon Development Studies

In-depth study into the problems and options faced by the developing world.

  • Duration: 3 or 4 years
  • Year of entry: 2025
  • UCAS course code: L900 / Institution code: M20
  • Key features:
  • Study abroad
  • Industrial experience

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Fees and funding

Fees

Tuition fees for home students commencing their studies in September 2025 will be £9,535 per annum (subject to Parliamentary approval). Tuition fees for international students will be £29,500 per annum. For general information please see the undergraduate finance pages.

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Course unit details:
Forced Migration

Course unit fact file
Unit code SOCY30082
Credit rating 20
Unit level Level 3
Teaching period(s) Semester 2
Available as a free choice unit? Yes

Overview

This module aims to introduce students to a range of the complex factors, social contexts, and histories surrounding forced migration. We will critically examine the international responses, regimes, and frameworks that govern the movement and settlement of displaced people. The course will highlight diversities in the experiences of forced migrants, and discuss the national and international regimes and discourses governing the movement and settlement of people.  

Aims

  • To introduce students to the complex factors, social contexts, and histories from which forced migration emerges  
  • To explore diverse experiences among forced migrants in host countries  
  • To equip students to critically analyse scholarly and contemporary debates about forced migration, displacement, and refugees
  • To explore and critically assess international responses, regimes, and instruments that govern forced migration 

 

 

Learning outcomes

 

Student should be able to:

 

  • Demonstrate knowledge and understanding of key concepts in Forced Migration Studies and the main causes of different types of forced migration
  • Engage in a theoretically informed discussions relating to global movements of forced migrants and the application of theory to these global movements.
  • To synthesis, summarise and critically evaluate information from a range of sources including academic and grey literature in order to produce assessed coursework. 
  • Have understood the main international instruments, including human rights treaties, governing forced migrants and forced migration.

Acquire and demonstrate transferable skills through group work and debates. 

Syllabus

Indicative curriculum content:

This course will cover key topics in forced migration through a sociological lens. It will address the political, cultural and social contexts of forced migration and engage students in a critical appreciation of the factors shaping forced migration, and of the experiences of forced migrants. Topics might include the politics of forced migration regimes, borders and bordering, transnational connections, refugee journeys, ‘resettlement’ regimes, generational perspectives, environmental migration, and gendered experiences of forced migration

Knowledge and understanding

Demonstrate knowledge and understanding of key concepts in forced migration studies

Engage in a theoretically informed discussions relating to global movements of forced migrants, and the application of theory to these global movements

Develop an informed and critical perspective on dominant discourses, policies and regimes governing  forced migration

Intellectual skills

Ability to critically and independently analyse key contemporary empirical research

Synthesise, summarise and critically evaluate issues from a range of sources to produce assessed coursework  

 

Practical skills

Ability to summarise and communicate sociological ideas in a concise and clear manner

Capacity to read, interpret, assess and present sophisticated written evidence

Use library and electronic sources and resources

Transferable skills and personal qualities

Critical and active reading of a diverse range of literature

Assessment methods

Method Weight
Written assignment (inc essay) 100%

Feedback methods

All sociology courses include both formative feedback - which lets you know how you're getting on and what you could do to improve - and summative feedback - which gives you a mark for your assessed work.  

Study hours

Scheduled activity hours
Lectures 20
Tutorials 10
Independent study hours
Independent study 170

Teaching staff

Staff member Role
Radhika Mathrani Chakraborty Unit coordinator

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