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Master Studies
Program Description
The Faculty of Social Science at the University of Tromsø is offering a Master’s Degree program in peace and conflict transformation (MPCT). The first students started at the program in August 2002. A new group of students has enrolled each year in August since then. The next admission is August 2006. Admission is limited to 24 seats.
The program has an international recruitment of students, with a mixture of students from Nordic and non-Nordic countries. All literature, teaching and student work will be in English. Read More
Aims of the Program
The MPCT has a duration of two years. During the program the student shall acquire the ability to analyze, and improve their capacity to handle and propose solutions to complicated conflict formations at different levels of society. The program takes an interdisciplinary approach covering a variety of mandatory courses which student can combine with elective courses and specializations in a various fields, such as Peace and Identity, Peace and Globalization, Peace and Health, Peace and Gender, Peace and the UN, Peace Education and Nonviolence, Human Rights, in addition to courses in research methods. During the first year teaching will be intensive, with an emphasis on course work, group work, papers and oral presentations, and discussions. Read More
Methods of Teaching
The teaching and learning methods will as far as possible be problem based: Taking topics and problems of current interest as our starting point, teaching will be organized as a recurrent cycle of discussion, study, instruction, research and academic production, guided by university academic staff. Read More
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