MSc Development Studies

Full-year programme. Students must take courses to the value of three full units and a dissertation as shown.

Paper

Course number and title

1

DV400 Development: Theory, History and Policy

2

DV410 Research Design and Dissertation in Development Studies, including
DV410.1 Social Research Methods in Developing Countries

3 & 4

Courses to the value of two full units from the following: (note: the International Relations (IR) Department permits non-IR students to take only one option from those prefixed "IR". Access is not guaranteed for any option)
AN448 Indigenous Politics in Highland Latin America (H)
AN451 Anthropology of Politics (H)
AN456 Anthropology of Economy: production and exchange (H)
AN457 Anthropology of Economy: transformation and globalisation (H)
DV407 Poverty (H) (n/a 08/09)
DV409 Economic Development Policy (with permission from the course lecturer)
DV411 Population and Development: An Analytical Approach (H)
DV413 Environmental Problems, Politics and Development (H)
DV415 Global Environmental Governance (H)
DV418 African Development (H) 
DV420 Complex Emergencies (H)
DV421 HIV/AIDS and Other Emerging Health Threats (H)
DV423 Global Political Economy of Development, I (H)
DV424 Global Political Economy of Development, II (H)
DV425 Managing Globalization (H) 
DV428 Managing Humanitarianism (H)
DV429 Global Civil Society I (H)
DV430 Global Civil Society II (H)
DV437 Nationalism, Democracy and Development in Contemporary India (H)
EC307 Development Economics †
EC428 Development and Growth ‡
EC436 The Economics of Regional and Urban Planning ‡
EH446 Economic Development of East and Southeast Asia  (n/a 08/09)
GI400 Gender Theories in the Modern World: An Interdisciplinary Approach
GI407 Globalisation, Gender and Development
GV427 Democracy and Democratization in East and South Asia (H)
GV441 States and Markets (H) (with permission from the course lecturer)
GV479 Nationalism
GV480 Introduction to Comparative Public Administration (H) (with permission from the course lecturer)
GV483 Public Management Theory and Doctrine (H)
GV4C9 Democratization and its Discontents in Southeast Asia (H)
GV4D3 Local Power in an Era of Globalization, Democratization and Decentralization (H)
GY408 European Economic Development Management
GY414 Gender, Space and Society (n/a 08/09)
GY420 Environmental Planning: National and Local Policy Implementation
GY421 Gender and Development: Geographical Perspectives (H)
GY423 Sustainability: Economy, Business and Technology
GY431 Cities, People and Poverty in the South (H)
GY432 Cities, Culture and Politics in the South (H) (n/a 08/09)
GY445 Urban Policy and Practice in the South
GY464 Race and Space (H)
GY465 Concepts in Environmental Regulation (H)
One of the following IR courses: ‡
IR418 International Politics: Asia and the Pacific
IR427 International Politics of Africa (n/a 08/09)
IS475 IT and Development
LL447 International Economic Law
LL453 International Protection of Human Rights
LL4C2 World Poverty and Human Rights (H)
LL4D6 International and European Environmental Law
SA435 NGOs and Development §
SA4H7 Urbanization and Social Planning (H) §
SA481 Population Analysis: Methods and Models (H) 
SA485 Methods for Population Planning (H)
SA492 Reproductive Health Programmes: Design, Implementation and Evaluation (H) (n/a 08/09)
SA493 Demography of the Developing World (H)
SA4C2 Basic Education for Social Development (H) 
SA4E6 Social Planning for Rural Development (H) §

Notes

† For students without a first degree in Economics
‡ Entry to these courses may be restricted
§ Course designed for those with a minimum of one year's practical working experience in developing countries; seminars draw extensively on students' own experience. Entry may be restricted. Interested students should attend lectures and consult the lecturers.

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