MSc in African Development

Programme Code: TMAFDV

Department: International Development

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

This information is for the 2017/18 session.

Guidelines for interpreting programme regulations
Classification scheme for the award of a taught master's degree (four units)
Exam sub-board local rules

Paper

Course number and title

1

DV418

African Development (H)

DV435

African Political Economy (H)

2

A choice of:

DV400

Development: History, Theory and Policy or

DV431

Development Management or

A combination of DV442  Key Issues in Development Studies (H) and one of the following:

DV420

Complex Emergencies (H)

DV421

Global Health and Development (H)

DV424

International Institutions and Late Development (H)

DV428

Managing Humanitarianism (H)

3

Courses to the value of one unit not already taken under Paper 2 or from the following:

DV407

Poverty (H)

DV411

Population and Development: An Analytical Approach (H)

DV413

Environmental Problems and Development Interventions (H)

DV415

Global Environmental Governance (H)

DV423

Global Political Economy of Development (H)

DV424

International Institutions and Late Development (H)

DV432

China in Developmental Perspective (H) (not available 2017/18)

DV433

The Informal Economy and Non-State Governance (H) (not available 2017/18)

DV434

Human Security (H) (not available 2017/18)

DV446

Technical Change, Paradigm Shifts and Global Development (H) (withdrawn 2017/18)

DV447

Public Affairs, International Development and Gendered Violence (H) (not available 2017/18)

DV454

Gender, labour markets and social change in the Global South: theory, evidence, public action (H)

DV455

Advocacy, Campaigning and Grassroots Activism (H)

DV457

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

DV483

Information Communication Technologies and Socio-economic Development (H)

DV490

Economic Development Policy I: Applied Policy Analysis for Macroeconomic Development (H)

DV491

Economic Development Policy II: Microeconomic Analysis (H)

DV492

Economic Development Policy III: Government Policy Analysis (H)

AN436

The Anthropology of Development (H)

GI409

Gender, Globalisation and Development: An Introduction (H)

GI411

Gender, Postcolonialism, Development: Critical Perspectives and New Directions (H)

GI418

Feminist Economics and Policy: An Introduction (H)

GI420

Globalisation, Gender and Development: Policy and Practice (H)

GV483

Public Management Theory and Doctrine (H)

GV4C2

Globalisation, Conflict and Post-Conflict Reconstruction (H)

GY403

Contemporary Debates in Human Geography (H)

GY407

Globalization, Regional Development and Policy

GY408

Local Economic Development and Policy (not available 2017/18)

GY409

Globalization and Regional Development (H)

GY410

Economics of Local and Regional Development (H)

GY421

Gender and Development : Geographical Perspectives (H) (not available 2017/18)

GY423

Environment and Development

GY431

Cities, People and Poverty in the South (H)

GY432

Urban Ethnography (H)

GY447

The Economics of Regional and Urban Planning (H)

GY464

Race and Space (H) (not available 2017/18)

GY467

Global Migration and Development (H) (not available 2017/18)

GY468

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

GY469

Environment and Development: Ecosystem Services and the Global South (H)

IR461

Islam in World Politics

MG402

Public Management: A Strategic Approach (H)

MG4B7

Organisational Change (H)

SA4E6

Rural Development and Social Studies (H) (with permission) (not available 2017/18)

Other relevant courses with permission of degree programme and course managers.

4

DV410

Research Design and Dissertation in International Development and

DV445

Research Themes in International Development (non-assessed)

Note for prospective students:
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