MSc in Development Studies
Programme Code: TMDV
Department: International Development
For students starting this programme of study in 2022/23
Guidelines for interpreting programme regulations
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Paper 1 |
DV400 Development: History, Theory and Policy (1.0) (withdrawn 2025/26) |
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Paper 2 |
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DV410 Research Design and Dissertation in International Development (1.0) |
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MY410 Fundamentals of Research Design for International Development (0.0) (withdrawn 2024/25) |
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DV445 Cutting Edge Issues in Development Thinking & Practice (0.0) |
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Papers 3 & 4 |
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Courses to the value of 2 unit(s) from the following: AN451 Politics and Power: Debates in Anthropology (0.5) |
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AN456 Economic Anthropology (0.5) |
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AN457 Anthropology of Economy (2): Transformation and Globalisation (0.5) (withdrawn 2025/26) |
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DV407 Poverty (0.5) |
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DV411 Population, Development and Environment: an Analytical Approach (0.5) |
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DV413 Environmental Problems and Development Interventions (0.5) |
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DV415 Global Environmental Governance (0.5) |
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DV418 African Development (0.5) |
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DV420 Complex Emergencies (0.5) |
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DV421 Critical Perspectives on Global Health and Development (0.5) |
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DV423 Global Political Economy of Development (0.5) # (suspended 2025/26) |
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DV424 International Institutions and Late Development (0.5) |
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DV428 Managing Humanitarianism (0.5) |
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DV432 China in Developmental Perspective (0.5) # (suspended 2025/26) |
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DV433 The Informal Economy and Inclusive Development (0.5) |
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DV434 Human Security (0.5) (suspended 2025/26) |
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DV435 African Political Economy (0.5) |
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DV444 Global Health Challenges: Epidemics, Disease, and Public Health Response (0.5) |
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DV447 Youth and Gendered Violence (0.5) # (withdrawn 2024/25) |
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DV453 Health and International Development Consultancy Project (0.5) |
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DV454 Gender, labour markets and social change in the Global South: theory, evidence, public action (0.5) (suspended 2025/26) |
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DV455 Advocacy, Campaigning and Grassroots Activism (0.5) |
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DV456 Population, Health and Development: Evidence and Projections (0.5) # (suspended 2025/26) |
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DV457 Sexual and Reproductive Health Programmes: Design, Implementation and Evaluation (0.5) |
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DV458 Key issues in Global Health and Development (0.5) |
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DV460 Bayesian Reasoning for Qualitative Social Science: A modern approach to case study inference (0.5) # (withdrawn 2025/26) |
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DV462 Forced Migration and Refugees (0.5) |
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DV463 Civil society, security and development (0.5) (withdrawn 2024/25) |
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DV464 Democracy and Development (0.5) |
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DV465 Labour, Social Services and Development (0.5) |
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DV472 Covid-19 pandemic: health, socio-economic and political implications for development (Special Topics in International Development) (0.5) (suspended 2025/26) |
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DV476 Population Analysis: Methods and Models (0.5) # (withdrawn 2024/25) |
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DV477 Rural Livelihoods, Agrarian Transformation and Development (0.5) # |
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DV480 Development Transformations: The Political Economy of Colonialism, Revolution and Reform (0.5) # |
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DV483 Information Communication Technologies and Socio-economic Development (0.5) (suspended 2025/26) |
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DV490 Economic Development Policy I: Applied Policy Analysis for Macroeconomic Development (0.5) # |
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DV491 Economic Development Policy II: Microeconomic Analysis (0.5) # |
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DV492 Economic Development Policy III: Government Policy Analysis (0.5) # |
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EH446 Economic Development of East and Southeast Asia (1.0) # (withdrawn 2025/26) |
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GI407 Globalisation, Gender and Development (1.0) (withdrawn 2025/26) |
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GI409 Conceptual Foundations in Gender, Development and Globalization (0.5) # |
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GI418 Feminist Economics and Policy (0.5) # (suspended 2025/26) |
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GI420 Feminist Perspectives on Transnational Development (0.5) |
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GV441 States and Markets (0.5) (withdrawn 2025/26) |
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GV483 Public Management Theory and Doctrine (0.5) |
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GV4C9 Globalization and Democratization in Southeast Asia (0.5) (suspended 2025/26) |
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GV4D3 Local Power in an Era of Globalization, Democratization, and Decentralization (0.5) |
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GV4K1 Participatory Governance (0.5) |
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GV4L3 Data Science Applications in Politics and Policy (0.5) # |
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GV4L7 Political Participation and Representation in Latin America (0.5) (suspended 2025/26) |
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GY420 Environmental Regulation: Implementing Policy (1.0) (withdrawn 2024/25) |
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GY431 Cities, People and Poverty in the South (0.5) # (suspended 2025/26) |
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GY432 Urban Ethnography (0.5) |
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GY438 Urban Asia: Cities and Social Change (0.5) |
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GY459 Global Urbanism (0.5) |
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GY465 Concepts in Environmental Regulation (0.5) |
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GY474 Politics of Environment and Development (0.5) |
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GY475 Governing Sustainable Enterprise (0.5) |
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GY480 Remaking China: Geographical aspects of Development and Disparity (0.5) (suspended 2025/26) |
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IR418 International Politics: Asia & the Pacific (1.0) (withdrawn 2023/24) |
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IR488 International Politics of Southeast Asia (0.5) |
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LL4AW Foundations of International Human Rights Law (0.5) |
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LL4AX Selected Topics in International Human Rights Law (0.5) |
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LL4C2 World Poverty and Human Rights (0.5) |
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MG460 Emergencies Management: Humanitarian Intervention and Digital Innovation (0.5) (suspended 2025/26) |
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MY425 Case Studies and Comparative Methods for Qualitative Research (0.5) # (suspended 2025/26) |
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PP449 Comparative Political Economy and Development (0.5) (suspended 2025/26) |
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SP415 Urbanisation and Social Policy in the Global Souths (0.5) # |
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SP436 Basic Education for Social Development (0.5) # (withdrawn 2024/25) |
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Footnotes
# means there may be prerequisites for this course. Please view the course guide for more information.
A: Papers 3 & 4, EC428: Entry to this course may be restricted.
B: Papers 3 & 4, GY447: Entry to this course may be restricted.
C: Papers 3 & 4, IR418: Entry to this course may be restricted.
D: Papers 3 & 4, IR488: Entry to this course may be restricted.
E: Papers 3 & 4, SP415: 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.
F: Papers 3 & 4: 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.
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.