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Lancaster University| The award | How you will study | Study duration | Course start | Domestic course fees | International course fees |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| MA | Full-time, Part-time | 1 - 2 year | - | - | - |
The School of Global Affairs offers four master’s degrees that share a common ethos and course structure. Each provides distinctive yet interconnected opportunities to develop the skills, knowledge, relationships and partnerships needed to meet the global challenges of our time.
Why Lancaster?
What are the key causes of environmental change? What is stopping nations from collectively shaping a more sustainable relationship between people and the environment? Our innovative master’s course offers fresh thinking on how to address some of the biggest challenges of our times, equipping you to play a transformative role in finding viable solutions.
Tackling climate catastrophe
Our master’s in Global Sustainability and Environmental Futures analyses the relationship between people and the environment. Using critical concepts, theories and practices drawn from across the arts, humanities, and social and natural sciences, you’ll learn tools that will enable you to unpick the complexity of human and non-human interests in environmental futures.
You’ll engage with educational, scientific, legal and regulatory approaches to dealing with global issues such as violences, sites of trauma and conflict, inequalities, poverty and environmental injustice. You'll explore the past, present and future of environmental change, including topics such as Global Environmental Politics, and Environmental Crisis and Societal Change.
Through a variety of modules ,you’ll be encouraged to draw on different disciplines and work collaboratively as you consider issues from the perspectives of diverse stakeholders and seek workable solutions.
Collaboration in practice
This master’s course is one of a series of four interconnected courses that have a common ethos and structure.
You’ll take part in subject-specific modules designed to build in-depth knowledge of global sustainability and environmental challenges and assess, engage in and create responses to real world issues.
In studio modules you’ll work collaboratively with other MA students, responding to live community briefs, connecting Lancaster’s research with both local environments and global issues.
For some modules, you’ll join with students from other master’s cohorts on projects that will develop your leadership skills – using generative, collaborative thinking to create innovative solutions that are relevant to diverse external stakeholders.
Working with students from our other cohorts will bring you into contact with those specialising in global affairs, AI, and global health and medical humanities. You’ll experience the benefits that harnessing skills and knowledge from diverse groups and subjects can bring.
You’ll have the opportunity to tailor your final project to draw on your academic, personal or professional experience. A range of innovative assessment types will give you the freedom to represent your chosen topic creatively and persuasively.
Become a leader in change
With its dedicated leadership module, this course prepares you for a future as a collaborative change-maker. The course challenges traditional views of leadership. It adopts an understanding of inclusive leadership that is grounded in critical, creative and collaborative skills - a holistic and humanistic way of thinking.
By taking this interdisciplinary approach and engaging in the discourses of leadership ethics, you will be equipped to bring about positive change in your chosen field.
You will benefit from Lancaster’s rich, collaborative academic environment, being able to participate actively in research events and opportunities provided by the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences.
Flexible study options
Study while continuing your career by taking this course on a part-time basis. Running over two years, you would take the following core modules each year:
We would liaise with you over your choice of optional modules and your schedule, so that you can successfully balance your work and other commitments alongside the master’s programme.
Contact Lancaster University to find course entry requirements.
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