This new taught one-year MA in
MA in Gender, Globalisation and Rights (Galway)

This new taught one-year MA in Gender, Globalisation and Rights (Women's Studies) offers students a unique opportunity to combine advanced study of two important fields - globalisation and human rights - through a critical, advocacy-oriented, gender lens.


The MA in Gender, Globalisation and Rights aims to equip students with the in-depth knowledge and analytical skills necessary to identify and address the gender dimensions of timely issues from extreme poverty and global inequalities to trafficking, violence against women, disease pandemics, war and conflict, and rising fundamentalisms.  Particular attention is paid to the multiple and intersectional aspects of women's identities and experiences - across location, socio-economic background, culture, ethnicity, 'race', political status, ability/disability, age, sexual orientation, and so on. Focusing on concrete issues, students learn about and engage critically with specific areas of global governance, policy-making and norm setting - especially vis-à-vis established development, human rights, security, and trade paradigms. The course places a strong emphasis on the role of civil society and transformative civic engagement in bringing about
 change from the local to the global level.

The programme will be of interest to recent graduates, experienced development and human rights practitioners, or mature students who wish to pursue career paths related to gender, globalisation and rights. All modules incorporate academic and policy-oriented resources and topics and a practitioner focus that prepares students for work in relevant local and global policy and NGO environments and/or to pursue advanced academic research.

Modules include:
Gender Perspectives on Globalisation
Women's Human Rights: Issues, Debates and Practice
Women's Agency and Power
Gender and Health Crises
Women, Conflict and Human Security
Gender, Development and Human Rights
Engendering Human Rights Advocacy
Gender Analyses and Feminist Epistemologies
Feminist Theorising
Research Methods and Practice
Dissertation (15,000 words)

A limited number of partial MA scholarships are available on a competitive basis.  In addition, eligible candidates from Sri Lanka, South Africa and Ethiopia may apply for an NUI Galway International Scholarship (see http://www.nuigalway.ie/international/fees/scholarships.html).


For further details, please visit: www.nuigalway.ie/womens_studies or contact:

Dr. Niamh Reilly
Global Women's Studies Programme
School of Political Science and Sociology
Aras Moyola, Room 326
National University of Ireland, Galway
IRELAND
Tel. 091 495403 (inside Ireland)
Tel. +353 91 495403 (international)
niamh.reilly AT nuigalway.ie
Application deadline: April 11 2008


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