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MscGlobal Sustainable Development

Study detals

Course type: Postgraduate Degree: Master's Degree Study mode: Online Duration : 30 Month

Requirements

Applicants must meet one of the below criteria:

Bachelor’s degree, or equivalent, in a related subject area
Or

Relevant work or life experience in a relevant subject area
And

English language GCSE Grade C or above. Click here for international student requirements.
Applications for this programme can be made up of the following:

Qualifications from a recognised education provider, or professional bodies.
Prior work experience relevant to the programme.
A mix of both qualifications and relevant work experience.
As part of the evaluation of your application you may be asked to provide further information about your work experience by completing a Mapping Matrix.

Further information about the Admissions Process and Mapping Matrix read our

Additional information

If you have a background in sustainability already, or already hold a degree, the MSc in Global Sustainable Development is the ideal course to take advantage of that experience and higher-level learning.

The course aims to:

Provide a sound, and critical, understanding of sustainable development, particularly with reference to the United Nations’ Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).
Show how sustainability is conceived and practiced differently across the globe.
Show how sustainability is conceived and practiced differently across different sectors, and to critically evaluate how the UN SDGs interact with these sectors.
Enable students to evaluate the role of individuals, communities, and institutions in delivering sustainable development.
Foster debate and enable students to express reasoned, evidence-based arguments.
The Programme starts with a period of gaining a shared vocabulary and set of ideas around sustainability, as well as investigating the various ways in which we might interrogate and analyse sustainability projects through a range of research methodologies and their associated techniques.
Options focus upon sectors, so, the MSc examines, in greater detail, the sectoral responses to the sustainability challenge. It shows that SDGs interact with a range of social and economic activities in a number of complicated and interconnected ways. This will allow you to evaluate projects and progress against sustainability goals more critically.
The Programme finishes with a significant piece of individual research, on a topic of your choice.

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