Course Overview

Our postgraduate degrees are an excellent way to enhance your expertise and career prospects and provide a foundation for many career options. For example, you may seek to use your knowledge to work in government service, international organizations, or areas of political research and journalism. Or you may opt to look for employment in fields such as banking, business, or teaching, where your MA will be respected as a postgraduate qualification.

You may also want to consider further research after you graduate. For example, political Research graduates specializing in political research find that the research skills the degree fosters are invaluable. As a result, they now occupy posts as lecturers, research associates, and assistants.

Students taking postgraduate degrees offered by Politics and International Relations at Leicester have gone into careers in the civil service, business, the law, the police, banking, journalism, management consultancy, librarianship, and teaching. Others have gone on to doctoral research.

By taking this course, you will gain a thorough grounding in key concepts and theories of human rights and global ethics. You will develop your knowledge of the different theoretical and policy perspectives on various ethical issues. You will also study the international political context of pressing ethical issues in depth, which includes considerations of state behavior and relations between states and non-state actors. You can also take specialist modules in International Human Rights Law as part of this course.

You will develop your research skills and pursue in-depth dissertation-length studies in human rights and global ethics, benefiting from academic expertise in intelligence, slavery, citizenship, refugees, animal rights, security, and war.

The degree will equip you with the competencies and skills to understand and participate in contemporary debates on human rights and global ethics and to analyze politics and international relations using a mixture of normative, theoretical, and empirical tools.

You will gain knowledge and skills relevant to employment and career development in government, media, business, non-governmental organizations, and any professional context in which cross-cultural sensitivity and ethical awareness are requirements.

General Eligibility

2:1 degree or equivalent in Politics, History, International Relations, or other related subjects.

Part Time Work Details

20 hours of work permit weekly for international students.

Language Requirement

• IELTS 6.5 or equivalent. If your first language is not English, you may need to prove your English ability. If you do not yet meet our requirements, our English Language Teaching Unit (ELTU) offers a range of courses to help you to improve your English to the necessary standard.