MSc in Population and Development

Programme code: TMPNDV

Department: Social Policy

This information is for the 2016/17 session.

Full-year programme. Students must take courses to the value of three full units, non-assessed course SA4C1 and a dissertation as shown.

Guidelines for interpreting programme regulations

Paper

Course number and title

1

DV400 

Development: History, Theory and Policy OR

 

DV442

Key Issues in Development Studies (H) and one other half-unit DV course from Paper 3 below

2

Two half-units from:

 

DV411

Population and Development: An Analytic Approach (H)

SA481

Population Analysis: Methods and Models (H)

SA485

Planning for Population and Development (H) 

SA493

Demographic Change and Development (H) (n/a 16/17)

SA4D2

Global Health and Population Change (H)

3

Two half-units or one full unit from:
Any courses not taken from Paper 2 above

 

DV400

Development: History, Theory and Policy (if not already taken under Paper 1)

DV407

Poverty (H)

DV413

Environmental Problems and Development Interventions (H)

DV418

African Development (H)

DV420

Complex Emergencies (H) (n/a 16/17)

DV421

Global Health and Development (H)

DV428

Managing Humanitarianism (H)

DV442

Key Issues in Development Studies (H) (if not already taken under Paper 1)

GI414

Gender and Social Policy: Theory and Practice (H)

GI417

Gender, Population and Policy (H)

GY421

Gender and Development: Geographical Perspectives (H) (n/a 16/17)

GY431

Cities, People and Poverty in the South (H) (n/a 16/17)

PS418

Health Communication (H)

SA492

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

 

SA4D6

Health Systems and Policies in Developing Countries (H)

SA4F1

Migration: Population Trends and Policies (H)

SA4H7

Urbanisation and Social Policy in the Global South (H) (n/a 16/17)

SA4N5

Global Ageing (H)

 

Any other course approved by tutor*

4

SA4C1

Long Essay and the Research Process (not assessed)

5

SA499

Dissertation on Population and Development, to be handed in by 1 September

Notes

* 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 Social Policy (ie not prefixed with 'SA'). For further information please see lse.ac.uk/socialPolicyCourses.