Global Security (MSc)

Programme structure

Pathways

In addition to the general degree programme students have the opportunity to study one of 3 specialised pathways. Current pathways include:

• MSc Global Security (Politics, Information and Security)
• MSc Global Security (Social and Cultural Perspectives)
• MSc Global Security (Strategy and Defence)
  

Politics, Information and Security

Provides students with the opportunity to examine how cyber issues and information cpmmunications technologies challenge the way states and citizens alike attempt to use and constrain information in a range of societies for security purposes.
Specialised courses within this pathway include: 
- The Internet and Civil Society
- Human-Centred Security* 
- Systems and Networks*
*these two courses provide students with some basic practical knowledge and training in ICT related security issues. Students do not need to have an computing science background to do these courses.

Social and Cultural Perspectives

Provides students with the opportunity to examine global security from a critical perspective, reflecting on social and cultural aspects and constructions of 'security'. Important to this pathway will be an interrogation of the relationship between security, vulnerability and the ethics of care. 
Specialised courses within this pathway include: 
- Critical Perspectives on Securities and Vulnerabilities 
- A range of related electives

Strategy and Defence

Provides students with the opportunity to examine shifts in Western strategic thought in both a historica; and contemporary setting. Particular attention will be given to how strategy and defence is currently developing within a new interdependent global context.
Specialised courses within this pathway include: 
- Comparative Approaches to Warfare and Violent Conflict 
- The American Way of War: from Revolution to the War on Terror
- A range of related electives