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Opleiding: MSc Sustainable Environmental Management
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:
* Teaching by specialist staff including researchers from our world-renowned Flood Hazard Research Centre
* Field work in the UK
* 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.
Flood Risk Management (30 Credits) - Optional
This module introduces students to three key dimensions of Flood Risk Management: 1 The physical basis of flood generation and flood frequency in the context of changing climatic and societal futures , and the global variation in flooding of differing causalities and frequencies; 2 Governance and Policies: the national and international policy and institutional context of Flood Risk Management, both in the UK and in other development contexts; 3 Solutions, Challenges and Approaches: delivering flood risk management to societies in a range of cultural and physical settings.
Global Biodiversity Management (30 Credits) - Optional
This module introduces students to the concept of biodiversity, its origins, Phanerozoic history and current global threat status emphasising the current context of climatic change/fluctuation. Concepts of climate-biota interaction are examined in depth and breadth whilst interactive relationships between organisms and planetary systems are investigated at a global level via a variety of data sources. Use of such evidence is examined as a means by which to examine current trends and their likely effects on Global Biodiversity. International conventions, national strategies and policies are examined to identify issues regarding biodiversity maintenance, and to investigate how these instruments can be practically applied to conserve, manage and use biodiversity sustainably for the foreseeable future. Mechanisms by which current global threats to biodiversity may be assessed and mitigated are examined with specific emphasis upon identifying issues associated with maintaining biodiversity in a rapidly changing world. Students are encouraged to critically investigate means by which these instruments can be practically applied to conserve, manage and use biodiversity sustainably. Case studies from More Developed Countries MDCs and Less Developed Countries LDCs will be used to illustrate practices.
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.
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.
Social Research Method (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 quantitative methods; enhance their critical appreciation of research; and ensure students are able to apply relevant approaches and methods to their own research project or extended literature review at masters level.
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 practical 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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