MA Latin American Studies: History, Politics and Society

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
• IT skills.

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

Compulsory modules

•  Researching the Americas
•  Dissertation

Optional modules

•  The Politics of Human Rights in Latin America: Challenges to Democratization
•  The Caribbean from the Haitian Revolution to the Cuban Revolution
•  Latin American Economics
•  The International Politics of Latin America
•  Gender, Politics, and Public Policy in Latin America
•  International Development: Theory, Policy, and Practice
•  State and Society in Latin America: Ethnographic Perspectives
•  The Latin American City: Social Problems and Social Change in Urban Space
•  The Making of Modern Latin America: History, Politics and Society