BSc Global Humanitarian Studies
Entry requirements
A level: ABB IB: 34 points (A total of 16 points in three higher level subjects, with no higher level score below 5.)
About this course
BSc in Global Humanitarian Studies, an international development with economics degree exploring crisis response, policy, and risk assessment. Core topics include Data Analysis, Statistics, Research Methods, Project Management, and Accounting. Students complete a structured three-academic-year programme that includes a final-year independent research project. The first year introduces the foundations through Global History of Humanitarianism, Humanitarian Crisis Response, Climate and Natural Hazard Risks, and Statistical and Geospatial Data Analysis. The second year focuses on legal frameworks, economics, and operations with modules such as International Legal Framework for Humanitarian Action, Humanitarian and Aid Economics, Humanitarian Operations, and Humanitarian Policy. The final year centers on advanced practice and evaluation, featuring compulsory modules like Evaluation of Humanitarian Action, Independent Humanitarian Research Project, and Programme Management for Humanitarians. Optional modules across the course span topics such as technology, health, anthropology, engineering, strategy, and accounting.
Modules
- Global History of Humanitarianism
- Humanitarian Crisis Response
- Climate and Natural Hazard Risks
- Statistical and Geospatial Data Analysis
- Key Concepts and Debates in Humanitarianism
- Interdisciplinary Skills
- Research Methods in Population Health
- Technology for Humanitarian Action
- Global Health Introduction
- Key Concepts in Social Anthropology
- Communication and Behaviour in Organisations
- Understanding Management
- International Legal Framework for Humanitarian Action
- Humanitarian and Aid Economics
- Humanitarian Operations
- Humanitarian Policy
- Historical and Contemporary Perspectives to Conflict and Migration
- Qualitative Research Methods
- Global Health Policy
- Warnings For All
- Anthropological Theory for the 21st Century
- Humanitarian Engineering and Data Science
- Competitive Strategy
- Managerial Accounting for Decision Making
- Evaluation of Humanitarian Action
- Independent Humanitarian Research Project
- Programme Management for Humanitarians
- Global Communicable and Non-Communicable Diseases
- Global Maternal and Child Health
- Water Security, Crises and Sustainability
- Microeconomics for Humanitarian Contexts
- International Migration Law
- International Relations
- Violence, Intersectionality and Marginalisation
- Critical Approaches to Diversity
- Strategic Project Management