Location: United States of America (the) (Medford)
Date: Course offered annually
Language: English
Type: University Study
Keywords: Humanitarian Assistance Management
Training Description
The Master of Arts in Humanitarian Assistance (MAHA) is a one-year joint degree offered by the Friedman School and the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy at Tufts University. The program is geared toward mid-career professionals who have significant field experience in humanitarian assistance. The program's mission is to offer an academic setting where professionals can develop their knowledge and skills in the areas of nutrition, food policy, and economic, political and social development as they relate to humanitarian action in complex emergencies and other disasters. Practitioners study, read about, reflect on, and write about humanitarian theories, programs, and policies.
Overview
Introduction
Educational Mission
The Need
Curriculum and Degree Requirements
Mandatory Courses
Core Course Electives
Participants
Criteria for Admissions
Student Advising
Tuition and Financial Aid
Governance and Administration
Core Teaching Staff
Contact Information
Introduction
Tufts University's Friedman School of Nutrition Science and Policy (FSNSP) and the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy offer a one-year joint degree Master of Arts in Humanitarian Assistance for mid-career professionals with significant field experience in the areas of famine, conflicts, complex emergencies and other disasters.
The Friedman School, the only school of its kind in the United States, was established in 1981 with the mission of bringing together biomedical, social, political, and behavioral sciences to conduct research, education, and community service programs in nutrition and food security. The FSNSP has achieved international recognition for its cross-disciplinary training of professionals to work in nutrition and related programs, such as human nutrition and nutritional epidemiology, applied nutrition and food policy, humanitarian assistance, world hunger, malnutrition, development and policymaking.
The Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy is the oldest school of international affairs in the United States devoted exclusively to graduate study in international relations. It educates professionals from throughout the world for careers leading to positions of leadership or influence in the national and international arenas, such as, negotiation/mediation, environment, refugees and migration, population issues, development, international law, global business, foreign service and other world issues.
Educational Mission
The mission of the Masters Degree program is to offer an academic setting for professionals to develop their professional knowledge and skills in the areas of nutrition, food policy, and economic, political and social analysis, as they relate to humanitarian action in famines, complex emergencies and other disasters. The one-year program provides an opportunity for practitioners to study, read, reflect and write about current issues and trends of international humanitarian theories, programs and policies.
Intended Audience
The Master of Arts in Humanitarian Assistance is offered to mid-career professionals from government, international, national and private organizations and agencies, as well as independent professionals. The program is tailored for practitioners who expect to continue working in related fields, including those who will return to their agencies upon completion of this degree program and those who are between jobs or anticipating a change of focus in their humanitarian assistance careers. The recruitment and admissions process seeks to attract a healthy mix of people from different countries, backgrounds, and experience, creating an environment where participants learn not only from the classroom experience, but from each other as well.
Training Contact
Fienstein International Center
