MSc in Population and Development
Programme code: TMPNDV
Department: International Development
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
Full-year programme. Students must take courses to the value of three full units, non-assessed course SA4C1 and a dissertation as shown.
Paper |
Course number and title | |
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1 |
Development: History, Theory and Policy or | |
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Key Issues in Development Studies (H) and one other half-unit DV course from Paper 3 below | |
2 |
Two half-units from: | |
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Population and Development: An Analytic Approach (H) | |
Planning for Population and Development (H) | ||
Demographic Change and Development (H) (not available 2017/18) | ||
Population Analysis: Methods and Models (H) | ||
Key Population Health Issues in Low and Medium-income countries (H) | ||
3 |
Two half-units or one full unit from: | |
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Development: History, Theory and Policy (if not already taken under Paper 1) | |
Poverty (H) | ||
Environmental Problems and Development Interventions (H) | ||
African Development (H) | ||
Complex Emergencies (H) | ||
Global Health and Development (H) | ||
Managing Humanitarianism (H) | ||
Key Issues in Development Studies (H) (if not already taken under Paper 1) | ||
Advocacy, Campaigning and Grassroots Activism (H) | ||
Sexual and Reproductive Health Programmes: Design, Implementation and Evaluation (H) | ||
Theorising Gender and Social Policy (H) | ||
Gender, Population and Policy (H) (not available 2017/18) | ||
Gender and Development: Geographical Perspectives (H) (not available 2017/18) | ||
Cities, People and Poverty in the South (H) | ||
Health Systems and Policies in Developing Countries (H) | ||
Health Communication (H) | ||
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Migration: Current Research, Critical Approaches (H) | ||
Urbanisation and Social Policy in the Global South (H) | ||
Global Ageing (H) (not available 2017/18) | ||
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Any other course approved by tutor* | |
4 |
Long Essay and the Research Process (not assessed) | |
5 |
Dissertation on Population and Development, to be handed in by 1 September | |
Notes | ||
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* By special permission only. | ||
It is not always possible to offer students a place on each of their preferred courses. This is particularly the case where courses are offered outside the Department of Social Policy (ie not prefixed with 'SA'). For further information please see lse.ac.uk/socialPolicyCourses. | ||
