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: History, Theory 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)

 

AN451

Anthropology of Politics (H)

AN456

Anthropology of Economy (1): Production and Exchange (H)

AN457

Anthropology of Economy (2): Development, Transformation and Globalisation (H)

AN460

Taiwan in Comparative Perspective (H)

DV407

Poverty (H)

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)

DV427

Public Management of Development (H)

DV428

Managing Humanitarianism (H)

DV429

Global Civil Society (H)

DV432

China in Developmental Perspectives (H)

DV433

The Informal Economy and Non-State Governance (H)

DV434

Human Security (H) (n/a 11/12)

DV437

Nationalism, Democracy and Development in Contemporary India (H)

DV475

IT and Socio-economic Development

DV483

Aspects of IT and Socio-economic Development (H)

EC307

Development Economics †

EC428

Development and Growth ‡

EH446

Economic Development of East and Southeast Asia (n/a 11/12)

GI400

Gender Theories in the Modern World: An Interdisciplinary Approach

GI407

Globalisation, Gender and Development

GI411

Gender, Postcolonialism, Development: Critical Perspectives and New Directions (H) (n/a 11/12)

GV427

Democracy in East and South Asia (H)

GV441

States and Markets (H) (with permission from the course lecturer)

GV479

Nationalism

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

Local Economic Development and Policy

GY420

Environmental Planning: National and Local Policy Implementation

GY421

Gender and Development: Geographical Perspectives (H) (n/a 11/12)

GY423

Environment and Development

GY430

Contemporary Urbanism

GY431

Cities, People and Poverty in the South (H) (n/a 11/12)

GY432

Urban Ethnography (H)

GY438

Cities and Social Change in East Asia (H)

GY445

Urban Policy and Practice in the South

GY447

The Economics of Regional and Urban Planning (H) ‡

GY464

Race and Space (H)

GY465

Concepts in Environmental Regulation (H)

GY467

Development, Diaspora and Migration (H)

GY468

Environment and Development: Sustainability, Technology and Business (H)

GY469

Environment and Development: Resources, Institutions and the Global South (H)

GY475

Issues in Environmental Governance (H)

IR418

International Politics: Asia and the Pacific ‡

LL447

International Economic Law

LL453

International Human Rights

LL4C2

World Poverty and Human Rights (H) (n/a 11/12)

LL4D6

International and European Environmental Law

SA435

NGOs and Development §

SA4H7

Urbanisation and Social Policy in the Global South (H) §

SA481

Population Analysis: Methods and Models (H) 

SA485

Planning for Population and Development (H)

SA492

Reproductive Health Programmes: Design, Implementation and Evaluation (H)

 

SA493

Demography of the Developing World (H)

SA4C2

Basic Education for Social Development (H) 

SA4E6

Rural Development and Social Policy (H) §

SA4F1

Migration: Population Trends and Policies (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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