COURSE OVERVIEW
This Master’s programme will offer social and cultural perspective on questions of environmental and other global change taking place in the world around us. It will offer students a range of theoretical approaches and methodological tools from human geography and the social sciences to learn how to address multiple and cross-cutting crises, ranging from migration to climate change, human security to global inequality.
WHY SOCIETY, ENVIRONMENT AND GLOBAL CHANGE AT SWANSEA?
- Top 200 in the World (Shanghai Ranking Subject Rankings 2022)
- Top 250 in the World (Environmental Sciences) (QS World University Rankings 2023)
- UK Top 5 for Course Satisfaction (The Guardian University Guide 2022)
- UK Top 20 for Research Quality (The Times Good University Guide 2022)
- 90% of our research outputs have been recognised as world leading and internationally excellent - Research Excellence Framework (REF) 2021
- 100% of the environment was rated as world leading and internationally excellent - Research Excellence Framework (REF) 2021
You will be taught by a range of inspiring experts in human geography and the climate crisis.
SOCIETY, ENVIRONMENT AND GLOBAL CHANGE EMPLOYMENT OPPORTUNITIES
Graduates from this programme will go on to work in careers including with the civil service, non-governmental international organisations, charity sector, think tanks and media, and in fields including social research, sustainability, the environment, inequality, education and urban regeneration.
Modules
This programme includes two flagship and compulsory modules titled, 'Crisis and Global Change' and 'Society-Environment Relations'. Both are taught in term 1, and provide a grounding in social theory, as well as in geography, politics and culture. Both are taught by Human Geography staff in small group seminars, where the emphasis is on student-staff discussion and learning through examples from the world around us.
In term 2, all students follow a compulsory module in 'Qualitative Research Methods' which prepares them for the dissertation. The dissertation is formed of independent research work on a current topic, broadly related to the themes of environment, society and global change. Students are encouraged and supported to carry out fieldwork and seek external partnerships, where relevant. This work is supported through peer-to-peer as well as individual supervisory meetings.
Alongside these compulsory modules, students are free to select modules from a carefully curated list of options offered by the Politics, Philosophy and International Relations and History departments at Swansea University. Typically, popular options include, 'Violence, Conflict and Development', 'Critical Security Studies', 'Climate Science and Policy', 'Geographical Information Systems', and 'Heritage, Law and Conflict'.
FHEQ 7 Taught Masters / PGDip / PGCert
Students choose 120 credits from the following:
Compulsory Modules
- Society-Environment Relations
- Crisis and Global Change
- Qualitative Research Methods
- Advanced Research in Human Geography
* Scholarships available for international students.
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