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Opleiding: Sustainable Environmental Management, MA

Learning purpose

By studying MSc-MA Sustainable Environmental Management at Middlesex University, you will gain an awareness of the causes and possible solutions to a range of environmental issues. You will develop the ability to evaluate the constraints and opportunities facing a variety of institutions. You will also acquire knowledge and skills required to influence and implement policies and to make them more sustainable.

 

The course has been designed for students from a broad range of backgrounds, it attracts a diverse and international student body, which promotes the sharing of ideas on a global scale. The course is suitable for applicants from a wide range of academic backgrounds, seeking to add sustainability skills to existing academic or professional expertise. While the MA option caters for applicants with a background ranging from management and business to social sciences, the MSc is suited for applicants with science and technical experience.

 

In 2010-12 the INSPIRE Project which will offer funding for up to three student dissertations focusing on sustainable coastal management in Bangladesh. Funding will be offered to students that demonstrate the most potential.

 

Course Highlights

* Taught by a team of experienced social and environmental academics, including
specialists from the internationally renowned Flood Hazard research Centre
* The emphasis is on a holistic approach
* A field visit to SE Spain is undertaken in November as part of the assessed
course
* Internship and work-based learning opportunities

 

 

Programme

Full-time students attend three or four days a week and part-time students one or two days, depending on your choice of optional modules.

Includes coursework projects, reports and essays, verbal and visual presentation skills, as well as the dissertation.

 

Modules

 Year 1

Disaster Mitigation in the Development Context (30 Credits) - Optional
Many feel that the World, and particularly the so called Third World is becoming a more dangerous place as the number and severity of natural events, such as the Boxing day Tsunami of 2005, appear to have increased in recent years. The module begins by critically examining this contention and reflecting on how present development and disaster policy initiatives are tackling the issue. Rather than examining how nature produces such hazards, the module aims to highlight how these hazardous events become disasters through examination of their root causes, their relationship with existing development process and their differentiated impact on the human population. The module goes on to develop understanding of what happens after an event like a hurricane, focussing on often marginalised aspects of disasters, such as the psychosocial impact on those who survive and secondary disasters that follow such as gender based violence. The module aims to highlight how disasters are as much political, social and economic events as they are natural occurrences and to facilitate the development of the related skills necessary to help mitigate the impact of potentially disastrous events in the future.

Dissertation Masters (60 Credits) - Compulsory
This module aims to enable students to investigate in depth a research question related to the programme of study, and to allow students to apply the theory and skills developed in the programme to a topic in policy analysis, project evaluation or professional practice. It also enables students to demonstrate mastery of the process skills involved in undertaking a sustained investigation.

Global Environmental Issues, Policies and Institutions (30 Credits) - Compulsory
This module examines the concept of sustainable development and sustainable environmental management within the context of global and national environmental issues, and critically examines the national and international policies designed to address these issues. Using a range of geographically and developmentally diverse case studies, students will be introduced to the wide range of contemporary environmental issues relevant to sustainable use of the environment. The course will also examine environmental conservation and management policies and investigate the constraints faced by institutions, at various levels, in addressing global and national problems through local actions. The module will also examine various approaches to managing change and policy implementation through the critical examination of the project cycle from a government and NGO perspective.

Globalisation (30 Credits) - Optional
This module considers the implications for International Relations of forces of globalisation, both economic and cultural. It analyses the rise of international organisations, transnational politics and issues of global importance, and explores the theoretical debate surrounding these developments.

Law and Governance (30 Credits) - Compulsory
The module is concerned with the extent to which Law and Governance may contribute to the protection of the physical environment. It introduces the concepts of environmental governance and issues of environmental law and their inter-relationship. It aims to enable students to develop a thorough understanding of the complex issues of institutional, economic and social framework within which management of the physical resources takes place, using water management as part of the examples. In addition, the module aims to provide detailed knowledge on the role which the law in theory and in practice has in the prevention, protection, clean up and compensation relating to harm caused to the environment.

Migration, Racism and Citizenship (30 Credits) - Optional
- To provide a critical understanding of contemporary process and theories of migration racism and citizenship - To provide an understanding of the sources and methods appropriate to the study of migration and racism.

Social Research Methods (30 Credits) - Compulsory
The purpose of this module is to familiarise Level 4 students with major approaches to social research; develop skills in designing a research proposal; enhance their skills in qualitative and quantative methods; enhance their critical appreciation of research; and ensure stduents are able to apply relevant aproaches and methods to their own research project or extended literature review at Masters level.

Sustainable Tourism Management (30 Credits) - Optional
This module aims to provide a critical understanding of the various dimensions of sustainable tourism in both the developed and the developing world. It will critically review the concept of balance between environmental, social and economic components of sustainable tourism and develop an understanding of the opportunities and constraints associated with sustainable tourism. The module also aims to provide students with a critical evaluation of the implementation and utilisation of a range of management tools that can be deployed in sustainable tourism initiatives. In addition the module will develop students critical awareness of the role of sustainable tourism in achieving sustainable development in different world regions.

Work Experience Internship (30 Credits) - Optional
To provide students with an opportunity to work in an organisation which offers an alternative or new experience relevant to their professional career aspirations for a period of 24 days. To develop and apply relevant skills and concepts from the academic programme to this different practica workplace experience. To gain experience in a new area of work, demonstrate a professional approach in the workplace and make a tangible contribution to the work of an organisation. To demonstrate an ability to reflect critically on personal development, to identify personal strengths and weaknesses in the workplace and to develop a personal action plan for addressing weaknesses.

 

 

Entry Requirements

We welcome applications from graduates with a good honours degree, or equivalent qualification, in an appropriate subject. We also consider candidates with other relevant qualifications and individuals with a minimum of three years' work experience. Those without formal qualifications need to demonstrate relevant work experience and the ability to study at postgraduate level.

 

English language requirements

You must have competence in English language and we normally require Grade C GCSE or an equivalent qualification. The most common English Language requirements for international students are IELTS 6.5 or TOEFL (paper based) 575 or TOEFL (internet based) 90 with specified minimum scores for each component.

 

Professional perspective and employment market

Graduates from this course have succeeded in finding employment in wide range of organizations including the business sector, consultancies, government ministries, non-governmental organisations (both local and international), education and other public sector agencies. Some examples are government official in a Ministry for Tourism in Africa, Project Director in an international NGO in Nicaragua and Head of Operations in an Environmental Business Consultancy in the UK. Some have also gone on to undertake PhDs and further research and academic careers in Higher Education in the UK.

 

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