MSc International Relations of the Americas

Normally an upper second-class Bachelor's degree in a relevant discipline from a UK university or an overseas qualification of an equivalent standard. A basic reading competence in Spanish, French or Portuguese is useful but not essential.

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Graduates will have acquired transferable skills attractive to employers in a wide range of businesses and sectors:

• theoretical and critical analysis
• writing and communication skills
• time management.

You will also learn to solve problems and issues and to build positive working relationships. 

Compulsory modules

•  Dissertation
•  Post-Cold War US Foreign Policy
•  Researching the Americas
•  The International Politics of Latin America

Optional modules

•  The Caribbean from the Haitian Revolution to the Cuban Revolution
•  The Politics of Human Rights in Latin America: Challenges to Democratization
•  Latin American Economics
•  From the New South to the Modern South: The (Re)Making of an American Region
•  The Latin American City: Social Problems and Social Change in Urban Space
•  Challenging the Straight State: Regulation Repression, and Resistance in US Sexual Politics
•  States of Exception: US State-building through its Exceptional Geographies
•  Environment and Development in Latin America: Revisiting the Open Veins
•  The Making of the Modern U.S. Presidency
•  The United States at War: Decolonial Perspectives, 1898-present
•  International Development: Theory, Policy, and Practice
•  Politics of US Foreign Policy
•  Gender, Politics, and Public Policy in Latin America
•  (In)Security in the Americas: Transnational Challenges
•  Environment and Science in the Making of Modern Latin America
•  State and Society in Latin America: Ethnographic Perspectives
•  The Making of Modern Latin America: History, Politics and Society