This Masters programme can be taken over 1 year full-time or 2 years part-time. On successful completion you will be awarded a Masters (MA) in Global and International Social Policy.

Teaching
Placements
Assessment
Module information

Teaching

Lectures, seminars, small-group work, tutorials, web based instruction, placement in an international organization or non-governmental organization, and a supervised dissertation.

This combination of teaching methods allows students to benefit from formal and informal instruction and gain academic and non-academic experience. The distance learning component of the programme will give MA students the chance to interact with other students all over the world, most likely working in IOs, INGOs, or local charities.

A key feature of the courses is its links with international agencies and actors such as OECD, ILO, WHO, Oxfam. Representatives from these organisations teach on the course.

Placements

As part of their dissertation project, students will have the opportunity to do placements in international agencies such those listed above. The placement is intended to provide experience working in global policy research and the data necessary to write a dissertation. Students will also become familiar with the operations of international organizations and international non-governmental organizations and make valuable contacts in the field.

The placement takes the format of an internship, which can be away from Sheffield, and will last approximately 3 months.

The course team will assist students in finding placements. Students are also encouraged to negotiate their own placements.

Assessment

Modules will be assessed by a combination of coursework (essays and portfolio work) and formal examination. The dissertation is to be 15,000 words.

Module information

The full-time MA in Global and International Social Policy is a one year 12 month programme, running from September to September. Teaching consists two 15-week semesters, from late September to the following June. You will then write their dissertation and finish in mid September.

It is possible to study for the MA part-time. Part-time study will be spread over 2 years. Students who choose this route will have the same rights to University facilities and resources as full-time students. Students will take 90 credits in each year.

180 credits are required for graduation: 105 credits are taken as compulsory modules, 15 credits are from optional modules, and 60 credits are allocated for the dissertation.

* Current modules on offer from across the Faculty include: The Research Process, Qualitative Methods, Quantitative Methods, Information Resources & Information Literacy, History & Theory of Urban Design, Journalism & Democracy, Global Issues in Political Communication, Global Journalism, Journalism, Globalisation & Development, History & Theory of Urban Design, Gender & Violence, Methods of Criminological Research, Environmental Criminology, Crime & Late Modernity, International Childhood: Rights, Policies, Practices, Children, Families & Welfare, International Crime Prevention, Global Social Policy & Governance, Political Economy of Global Social Policy, Global Social Problems, Policy Analysis, Foundations of Sociological Inquiry, Social Research for the Digital Age, International Health Systems & Policy, Gender Relations & Health , Leading & Managing Public Healthcare Systems, Psychosocial Perspectives on Health, Maximising Usefulness of Secondary Data sources, Sociology of Health & Illness, Philosophical & Social Issues in Research (online module)