MSc in Health and International Development

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Programme Code: TMHEINDE

Department: International Development

For students starting this programme of study in 2022/23

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-credit-bearing courses DV445 and MY410 and a dissertation as shown.

Students who choose to concentrate their electives and dissertation in a certain topic area may elect to have a specialism in "African Development,” “Population Studies,” or “Applied Development Economics” attached to their degree certificate and transcript. To obtain the specialism indication, students must meet the criteria below.

**African Development**: students must take DV418 and DV435, and their dissertation topic must be approved as being appropriate for this specialism.

**Population Studies**: students must take DV476 and DV456, and their dissertation topic must be approved as being appropriate for this specialism.

**Applied Development Economics**: enrolment capacity is limited and may be based on performance on a pre-quiz which will enable students to take at least two of DV490, DV491, DV492, and their dissertation topic must be approved as being appropriate for this specialism.

If no such election is made, the degree certificate will state “Health and International Development” without further specification.

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	DV442 Key Issues in Development Studies (0.5) and DV458 Key issues in Global Health and Development (0.5)
Paper 2
	Courses to the value of 1 unit(s) from the following: DV411 Population, Development and Environment: an Analytical Approach (0.5)
	DV421 Critical Perspectives on Global Health and Development (0.5)
	DV444 Global Health Challenges: Epidemics, Disease, and Public Health Response (0.5)
	DV453 Health and International Development Consultancy Project (0.5)
	DV456 Population, Health and Development: Evidence and Projections (0.5) # (suspended 2025/26)
	DV457 Sexual and Reproductive Health Programmes: Design, Implementation and Evaluation (0.5)
	DV465 Labour, Social Services and Development (0.5)

Paper 3	A
	Courses to the value of 1 unit(s) from the following:
	DV407 Poverty (0.5)
	DV413 Environmental Problems and Development Interventions (0.5)
	DV415 Global Environmental Governance (0.5)
	DV418 African Development (0.5)
	DV420 Complex Emergencies (0.5)
	DV423 Global Political Economy of Development (0.5) # (suspended 2025/26)
	DV424 International Institutions and Late Development (0.5)
	DV428 Managing Humanitarianism (0.5)
	DV433 The Informal Economy and Inclusive Development (0.5)
	DV434 Human Security (0.5) (suspended 2025/26)
	DV435 African Political Economy (0.5)
	DV447 Youth and Gendered Violence (0.5) # (withdrawn 2024/25)
	DV454 Gender, labour markets and social change in the Global South: theory, evidence, public action (0.5) (suspended 2025/26)
	DV455 Advocacy, Campaigning and Grassroots Activism (0.5)
	DV460 Bayesian Reasoning for Qualitative Social Science: A modern approach to case study inference (0.5) # (withdrawn 2025/26)
	DV462 Forced Migration and Refugees (0.5)
	DV463 Civil society, security and development (0.5) (withdrawn 2024/25)
	DV464 Democracy and Development (0.5)
	DV472 Covid-19 pandemic: health, socio-economic and political implications for development (Special Topics in International Development) (0.5) (suspended 2025/26)
	DV476 Population Analysis: Methods and Models (0.5) # (withdrawn 2024/25)
	DV480 Development Transformations: The Political Economy of Colonialism, Revolution and Reform (0.5) #
	DV483 Information Communication Technologies and Socio-economic Development (0.5) (suspended 2025/26)
	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) #
	GY431 Cities, People and Poverty in the South (0.5) # (suspended 2025/26)
	HP403 Health Systems and Policies in Developing Countries (0.5) (withdrawn 2023/24)
	HP404 Global Health Policy: Institutions, Actors and Politics (0.5)
	HP405 Social Determinants of Health (0.5) (suspended 2025/26)
	HP412 Global Health Security (0.5)
	HP421 Economic Analysis for Health Policy in Low- and Middle-Income Countries (0.5)
	HP435 Global Access to Medicines (0.5) (suspended 2025/26)
	MG483 eHealth: Policy, Strategy and Systems (0.5) #
	MY405 Research Design for Policy and Programme Evaluation (0.5)
	PB422 Health Communication (0.5) (withdrawn 2024/25)

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Paper 4
	DV410 Research Design and Dissertation in International Development (1.0)
	MY410 Fundamentals of Research Design for International Development (0.0) (withdrawn 2024/25)

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

Paper 2 options list



DV421 Critical Perspectives on Global Health and Development (0.5)
DV444 Global Health Challenges: Epidemics, Disease, and Public Health Response (0.5)
DV453 Health and International Development Consultancy Project (0.5)
DV456 Population, Health and Development: Evidence and Projections (0.5) # (suspended 2025/26)
DV457 Sexual and Reproductive Health Programmes: Design, Implementation and Evaluation (0.5)
DV473 Health, conflict and crises (0.5)
DV494 Foundations of Applied Econometrics for Economic Development Policy (0.5)

Footnotes

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

A: Paper 3: Any other course approved by tutor 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 International Development (ie not prefixed with 'DV').

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.