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MSc in Development Studies

Programme Code: TMDV

Department: International Development

For students starting this programme of study in 2018/19

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 and a dissertation as shown.

Please note that places are limited on some optional courses. Admission onto any particular course is not guaranteed and may be subject to timetabling constraints and/or students meeting specific prerequisite requirements.

Paper

Course number, title (unit value)

Paper 1

DV400 Development: History, Theory and Policy (1.0) #

Paper 2

DV410 Research Design and Dissertation in International Development (1.0)

 

MY410 Fundamentals of Research Design for International Development (0.0)

 

DV445 Cutting Edge Issues in Development Thinking & Practice (0.0)

Papers 3 & 4

Courses to the value of 2 unit(s) from the following: A

 

AN451 Anthropology of Politics (0.5)

 

AN456 Anthropology of Economy (1): Production and Exchange (0.5)

 

AN457 Anthropology of Economy (2): Transformation and Globalisation (0.5)

 

DV407 Poverty (0.5)

 

DV411 Population and Development: an Analytical Approach (0.5)  (not available 2020/21)

 

DV413 Environmental Problems and Development Interventions (0.5) #

 

DV415 Global Environmental Governance (0.5)

 

DV418 African Development (0.5)

 

DV420 Complex Emergencies (0.5)

 

DV421 Critical Perspectives on Global Health and Development (0.5)

 

DV423 Global Political Economy of Development (0.5) #  (not available 2020/21)

 

DV424 International Institutions and Late Development (0.5)

 

DV428 Managing Humanitarianism (0.5)

 

DV429 Global Civil Society (0.5)  (withdrawn 2018/19)

 

DV432 China in Developmental Perspective (0.5) #

 

DV433 The Informal Economy and Development (0.5)

 

DV434 Human Security (0.5)  (not available 2020/21)

 

DV435 African Political Economy (0.5)

 

DV442 Key Issues in Development Studies (0.5)

 

DV444 Global Health Challenges: Epidemics, Disease, and Public Health Response (0.5) #

 

DV447 Youth and Gendered Violence (0.5) #  (not available 2020/21)

 

DV450 Policy, Bureaucracy and Development: Theory and Practice of Policy Design, Implementation and Evaluation (0.5) #  (withdrawn 2018/19)

 

DV453 International Development Consultancy Project (0.5)

 

DV454 Gender, labour markets and social change in the Global South: theory, evidence, public action (0.5)

 

DV455 Advocacy, Campaigning and Grassroots Activism (0.5)

 

DV456 Population, Health and Development: Evidence and Projections (0.5) #

 

DV457 Sexual and Reproductive Health Programmes: Design, Implementation and Evaluation (0.5)

 

DV458 Key issues in Global Health and Development (0.5)

 

DV460 Bayesian Reasoning for Qualitative Social Science: A modern approach to case study inference (0.5) #

 

DV480 Revolution and Development (0.5) #

 

DV483 Information Communication Technologies and Socio-economic Development (0.5)

 

DV490 Economic Development Policy I: Applied Policy Analysis for Macroeconomic Development (0.5)

 

DV491 Economic Development Policy II: Microeconomic Analysis (0.5) #

 

DV492 Economic Development Policy III: Government Policy Analysis (0.5) #

 

EC307 Development Economics (1.0) # B

 

EC428 Development and Growth (1.0) # C

 

EH446 Economic Development of East and Southeast Asia (1.0) #

 

GI407 Globalisation, Gender and Development (1.0) 1

 

GI409 Gender, Globalisation and Development: An Introduction (0.5) 2

 

GI411 Gender, Post/coloniality and Development: Critical Perspectives and New Directions (0.5) #

 

GI418 Feminist Economics and Policy: An Introduction (0.5) #  (not available 2020/21)

 

GI420 Globalisation, Gender and Development: Theorising Policy and Practice (0.5) 3

 

GV441 States and Markets (0.5)

 

GV479 Nationalism (1.0)  (withdrawn 2018/19)

 

GV483 Public Management Theory and Doctrine (0.5)

 

GV4C9 Globalization and Democratization in Southeast Asia (0.5)

 

GV4D3 Local Power in an Era of Globalization, Democratization, and Decentralization (0.5)

 

GV4K1 Transparency and Accountability in Government (0.5)

 

GY403 Contemporary Debates in Human Geography (0.5)

 

GY408 Local Economic Development and Policy (1.0)  (withdrawn 2019/20)

 

GY420 Environmental Regulation: Implementing Policy (1.0)

 

GY421 Gender and Development: Geographical Perspectives (0.5) #  (withdrawn 2020/21)

 

GY423 Environment and Development (1.0) #  (withdrawn 2019/20)

 

GY431 Cities, People and Poverty in the South (0.5) #

 

GY432 Urban Ethnography (0.5)  (not available 2020/21)

 

GY438 Cities and Social Change in East Asia (0.5) #

 

GY447 The Economics of Regional and Urban Planning (0.5) # D

 

GY459 Urban Theory and Policy in the Global South (0.5) #

 

GY464 Race and Space (0.5)  (withdrawn 2019/20)

 

GY465 Concepts in Environmental Regulation (0.5)

 

GY467 Global Migration and Development (0.5)  (withdrawn 2020/21)

 

GY468 Environment and Development: Sustainability, Technology and Business (0.5) #  (withdrawn 2019/20)

 

GY469 Environment and Development: Ecosystem Services and the Global South (0.5) #  (withdrawn 2019/20)

 

GY475 Issues in Environmental Governance (0.5)

 

GY480 Remaking China: Geographical aspects of Development and Disparity (0.5)  (not available 2020/21)

 

IR418 International Politics: Asia & the Pacific (1.0) E

 

IR447 Political Economy of International Labour Migration (0.5) #  (not available 2020/21)

 

LL4AW Foundations of International Human Rights Law (0.5) #  (not available 2020/21)

 

LL4AX Selected Topics in International Human Rights Law (0.5) #  (not available 2020/21)

 

LL4B1 International Trade Law (0.5) #

 

LL4C2 World Poverty and Human Rights (0.5) #

 

MG460 Emergencies Management: Humanitarian Intervention and Digital Innovation (0.5)

 

PP448 International Political Economy and Development (0.5)

 

PP449 Comparative Political Economy and Development (0.5)

 

SA481 Population Analysis: Methods and Models (0.5) #  (withdrawn 2019/20)

 

SA4C2 Basic Education for Social Development (0.5) #  (withdrawn 2019/20)

 

SA4E6 Rural Development and Social Policy (0.5) # F  (withdrawn 2019/20)

 

SA4H7 SA415 Urbanisation and Social Policy in the Global South (0.5) # G  (withdrawn 2019/20)

Prerequisite Requirements and Mutually Exclusive Options

1 : GI407 can not be taken with GI409, GI420

2 : GI409 can not be taken with GI407, GI420

3 : GI420 can not be taken with GI409, GI407

Footnotes

A : 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.

B : For students without a first degree in Economics.

C : Entry to this course may be restricted.

D : Entry to this course may be restricted.

E : Entry to this course may be restricted.

F : 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.

G : 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.

# means there may be prerequisites for this course. Please view the course guide for more information.

Note for prospective students:
For changes to graduate course and programme information for the next academic session, please see the graduate summary page for prospective students. Changes to course and programme information for future academic sessions can be found on the graduate summary page for future students.