MSc in Development Studies

Programme code: TMDV

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, Development Management, African Development and International Development and Humanitarian Emergencies

3-4

Courses to the value of 2 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)

DV407

Poverty (H)

DV411

Population and Development: An Analytical Approach (H)

DV413

Environmental Problems and Development Interventions (H) (n/a 15/16)

DV415

Global Environmental Governance (H) (n/a 15/16)

DV418

African Development (H) 

DV420

Complex Emergencies (H)

DV421

Global Health and Development (H)

DV423

Global Political Economy of Development (H) (n/a 15/16)

DV424

International Institutions and Late Development (H)

DV428

Managing Humanitarianism (H)

DV429

Global Civil Society (H) (n/a 15/16)

DV432

China in Developmental Perspectives (H)

DV433

The Informal Economy and Development (H)

DV434

Human Security (H) (n/a 15/16) 

DV435

African Political Economy (H)

DV442

Key Issues in Development Studies (H)

DV445

Research Themes in International Development (H)

DV446

Technical Change, Paradigm Shifts and Global Development (H)

DV447

Public Affairs, International Development and Gendered Violence (H)

DV448

 Political Economy of Development I

DV450

Bureaucracy and Development (H)

DV451

Money in an Unequal World (H)

DV483

Information 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)

EC307

Development Economics †

EC428

Development and Growth ‡

EH446

Economic Development of East and Southeast Asia (n/a 15/16)

GI407

Globalisation, Gender and Development *

GI409

Gender, Globalisation and Development: An Introduction (H) *

GI411

Gender, Postcoloniality, Development: Critical Perspectives and New Directions (H) (n/a 15/16)

GI418

Feminist Economics and Policy: An Introduction (H)

GI420

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

GI424

Gender Theories in the Modern World: An Interdisciplinary Approach (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)

 

GV4H7

Subnational Politics in Comparative Perspective (H) (n/a 15/16)

GY403

Contemporary Debates in Human Geography (H)

GY408

Local Economic Development and Policy 

GY420

Environmental Planning: National and Local Policy Implementation

GY421

Gender and Development: Geographical Perspectives (H)

GY423

Environment and Development

GY431

Cities, People and Poverty in the South (H) (n/a 15/16)

GY432

Urban Ethnography (H) (n/a 15/16)

GY438

Cities and Social Change in East Asia (H) (n/a 15/16) 

GY447

The Economics of Regional and Urban Planning (H) ‡

GY459

Urban Theory and Policy in the Global South (H)

GY464

Race and Space (H) 

GY465

Concepts in Environmental Regulation (H)

GY467

Global Migration and Development (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)

GY480

Remaking China: Geographical Aspects of Development and Disparity (H)

IR418

International Politics: Asia and the Pacific ‡

IR447

Political Economy of International Labour Migration (H)

LL4B1

International Economic Law (H)

LL4C2

World Poverty and Human Rights (H) 

LL4AW

Foundations of International Human Rights Law (H)

LL4AX

Selected Topics in International Human Rights Law (H) (n/a 15/16) 

MG460

Handling Disruption: Humanitarian Emergencies Management and Development (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

Demographic Change and Development (H) (n/a 15/16)

SA4C2

Basic Education for Social Development (H) 

SA4E6

Rural Development and Social Policy (H) § (n/a 15/16)

SA4F1

Migration: Population Trends and Policies (H)

SA4H7

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

SA4H9

Non-Governmental Organisations, Social Policy and Development (H)

Notes

† For students without a first degree in Economics.
GI407 cannot be taken alongside GI409 or GI420
‡ 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.