M.A. Governance and Human Rights

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The M.A. Governance and Human Rights is a unique professional, distance-learning master's programm at Leuphana University of Lüneburg

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The Master’s Program in Governance and Human Rights connects the theory of science with its practical application. In seven modules, the students will learn to analyze and understand legal and political theories of governance and international and regional human rights regimes and how they are interrelated. The students and scholars of the Master of Governance and Human Rights will design, plan, organize, and realize their own project addressing a practical challenge related to the field of governance and human rights.

Project-based learning is of central importance for the programme. The students will learn to conceptualize and contribute to social change and acquire the design and communication skills to adapt theoretical approaches to governance and human rights to their professional working environment, e.g. as part of corporate social responsibility (CSR) or sustainable development policies. They will be taught and supervised by outstanding and renowned international human rights academics, practitioners and experienced project coaches.

The Master’s Program in Governance and Human Rights will start in October 2015. The program is developed in cooperation with the Humboldt-Viadrina Governance Platform in Berlin.

As graduates of the M.A. Governance and Human Rights, students will:

- possess a comprehensive understanding of Governance principles and the means to critically examine them
- be acquainted with the various of Human Rights principles, norms and standards
- know how to apply Governance principles in order to promote Human Rights
- be able to organize the work in for-profit businesses as well as in non-profit and non-governmental organizations, including issues such as funding, project management etc.
- be prepared for the challenges associated with development aid and state building


Earn a Master of Governance and Human Rights

Classes are scheduled on ten days in a semester. You can complete the course assignments by working with study materials (books, lecture notes, distance-learning) before and after class. This enables an optimum combination of study-time and professional life.