MSc in Development Studies

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Programme Code: TMDV

Department: International Development

For students starting this programme of study in 2026/27

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 six half-units 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”, "Applied Development Economics" or "Environment" 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 DV411 and MY466 and their dissertation topic must be approved as being appropriate for this specialism.

**Applied Development Economics**: Students must take DV494 plus two from DV490, DV491, DV492. Please note that there is limited availability for this specialism.

**Environment:** Students must take two courses from the following: DV411, DV413 and DV415, and their dissertation topic must be approved as being appropriate for this specialism.

If no such election is made, the degree certificate will state “Development Studies” 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.
	Course code, title (unit value)

Paper 1	DV468 Development: History, Theory and Policy (0.5)

Paper 2	DV410 Research Design and Dissertation in International Development (1.0)
	DV445 Cutting Edge Issues in Development Thinking & Practice (0.0)

Paper 3	A minimum of two courses from the following: DV407 Poverty (0.5)
	DV411 Population, Development and Environment: an Analytical Approach (0.5)
	DV413 Environmental Problems and Development Interventions (0.5)
	DV418 African Development (0.5)
	DV423 Global Political Economy of Development (0.5) #
	DV424 International Institutions and Late Development (0.5)
	DV433 The Informal Economy and Inclusive Development (0.5)
	DV465 Labour, Social Services and Development (0.5)
	DV477 Rural Livelihoods, Agrarian Transformation and Development (0.5) #

Paper 4	Up to three half units from the following: DV415 Global Environmental Governance (0.5)
	DV420 Complex Emergencies (0.5)
	DV421 Critical Perspectives on Global Health and Development (0.5)
	DV428 Managing Humanitarianism (0.5)
	DV434 Human Security (0.5) (suspended 2026/27)
	DV435 African Political Economy (0.5)
	DV444 Quantitative Analysis in Health and Sustainable Development (0.5) # (suspended 2026/27)
	DV453 Health and International Development Consultancy Project (0.5)
	DV454 Gender, labour markets and social change in the Global South: theory, evidence, public action (0.5) (suspended 2026/27)
	DV455 Advocacy, Campaigning and Grassroots Activism (0.5)
	DV456 Population, Health and Development: Evidence and Projections (0.5) # (suspended 2026/27)
	DV457 Sexual and Reproductive Health Programmes: Design, Implementation and Evaluation (0.5)
	DV458 Key issues in Global Health and Development (0.5)
	DV462 Forced Migration and Refugees (0.5)
	DV464 Democracy and Development (0.5)
	DV465 Labour, Social Services and Development (0.5)
	DV470 Famine and Food Security Crises (0.5) (suspended 2026/27)
	DV472 Capitalism and Development: a history (0.5)
	DV473 Health, conflict and crises (0.5)
	DV480 Development Transformations: The Political Economy of Colonialism, Revolution and Reform (0.5)
	DV483 Digital Development and Socioeconomic 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) #
	DV494 Foundations of Applied Econometrics for Economic Development Policy (0.5)
	Non-DV courses

Non-DV courses



AN451 Politics and Power: Debates in Anthropology (0.5)
AN456 Economic Anthropology (0.5)
EC428 Development and Growth (1.0) #
GI409 Conceptual Foundations in Gender, Development and Globalization (0.5) #
GI418 Feminist Economics and Policy (0.5) #
GI420 Feminist Perspectives on Transnational Development Agendas (0.5)
GV483 Public Management Theory and Doctrine (0.5)
GV4C9 Globalization and Democratization in Southeast Asia (0.5) (suspended 2026/27)
GV4K1 Participatory Governance (0.5)
GV4L3 Data Science Applications in Politics and Policy (0.5) # (suspended 2026/27)
GV4L7 Political Participation and Representation in Latin America (0.5) (suspended 2026/27)
GY403 Contemporary Debates in Human Geography (0.5) #
GY413 Regional Development and Policy (0.5) #
GY432 Urban Ethnography (0.5)
GY438 Urban Asia: Cities and Social Change (0.5)
GY447 The Economics of Regional and Urban Planning (0.5) #
GY459 Global Urbanism (0.5)
GY465 Concepts in Environmental Regulation (0.5)
GY473 Economic Development and the Environment (0.5) #
GY474 Politics of Environment and Development (0.5)
GY475 Governing Sustainable Enterprise (0.5)
GY480 Remaking China: Geographical aspects of Development and Disparity (0.5) (suspended 2026/27)
IR488 International Politics of Southeast Asia (0.5)
LL4AW Foundations of International Human Rights Law (0.5)
LL4AX Selected Topics in International Human Rights Law (0.5)
LL4B1 International Trade Law (0.5) #
LL4C2 World Poverty and Human Rights (0.5) (suspended 2026/27)
MG460 Emergencies Management: Humanitarian Intervention and Digital Innovation (0.5) (suspended 2026/27)
MY425 Case Studies and Comparative Methods for Qualitative Research (0.5) #
MY428 Qualitative Text and Discourse Analysis (0.5) # (suspended 2026/27)
MY466 Population Analysis: Methods and Models (0.5) #
SP415 Urbanisation and Social Policy in the Global Souths (0.5) #

Footnotes

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