Global Humanitarian Studies

UCL (University College London)

The BSc programme aims to educate and train future generations of humanitarian leaders in the theory and practice of humanitarian action. This multidisciplinary programme will equip you with the knowledge, critical, analytical and research skills and core competencies grounded in practice to anticipate evolving and emerging humanitarian threats and manage widening vulnerability and crisis response. Each year of the programme comprises 75 credits of compulsory modules (five 15 credit modules in years one and two or three 15 credit modules and one 30 credit module in year three) and 45 credits of optional modules.You will take a compulsory central core of humanitarian studies running through all three years. This core includes both researcher-led academic subjects and core competencies. You will cover a broad range of subject areas including understanding and analysis of humanitarian crises, conflict, disaster, migration, trapped populations and immobility natural hazards and climate risks, water security and sustainability, health and wellbeing impacts, gender and intersectionality, humanitarian policy, law and aid economics, emergency and crisis response, humanitarian technology, logistics, communication and negotiation, violence, intersectionality and marginalisation, geospatial data analysis, quantitative and qualitative research methods, and ethical, historical and political contexts.

Institute for Risk and Disaster Reduction