MSc in Development Studies
Programme code: TMDV
Department: International Development
This information is for the 2017/18 session.
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.
Paper |
Course number and title | |
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1 |
Development: History, Theory and Policy | |
2 |
Research Design and Dissertation in International Development and | |
Research Themes in International Development (non-assessed) | ||
3-4 |
Courses to the value of 2 units from the following: (note: 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) | |
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Anthropology of Politics (H) | |
Anthropology of Economy (1): Production and Exchange (H) | ||
Anthropology of Economy (2): Transformation and Globalisation (H) | ||
Poverty (H) | ||
Population and Development: An Analytical Approach (H) | ||
Environmental Problems and Development Interventions (H) | ||
Global Environmental Governance (H) | ||
African Development (H) | ||
Complex Emergencies (H) | ||
Global Health and Development (H) | ||
Global Political Economy of Development (H) | ||
International Institutions and Late Development (H) | ||
Managing Humanitarianism (H) | ||
Global Civil Society (H) (not available 2017/18) | ||
China in Developmental Perspectives (H) (not available 2017/18) | ||
The Informal Economy and Development (H) (not available 2017/18) | ||
Human Security (H) (not available 2017/18) | ||
African Political Economy (H) | ||
Key Issues in Development Studies (H) | ||
DV446 |
Technical Change, Paradigm Shifts and Global Development (H) (withdrawn 2017/18) | |
Public Affairs, International Development and Gendered Violence (H) (not available 2017/18) | ||
Political Economy of Development I (H) | ||
Political Economy of Development II (H) | ||
Policy, Bureaucracy and Development: Theory and Practice of Policy Design, Implementation and Evaluation (H) | ||
DV451 |
Money in an Unequal World (H) (withdrawn 2017/18) | |
Gender, labour markets and social change in the Global South: theory, evidence, public action (H) | ||
Advocacy, Campaigning and Grassroots Activism (H) | ||
Planning for Population and Development (H) | ||
Sexual and Reproductive Health Programmes: Design, Implementation and Evaluation (H) | ||
Demographic Change and Development (H) (not available 2017/18) | ||
Information Communication Technologies and Socio-economic Development (H) | ||
Economic Development Policy I: Applied Policy Analysis for Macroeconomic Development (H) | ||
Economic Development Policy II: Microeconomic Analysis (H) | ||
Economic Development Policy III: Government Policy Analysis (H) | ||
Development Economics † | ||
Development and Growth ‡ | ||
Economic Development of East and Southeast Asia (not available 2017/18) | ||
Globalisation, Gender and Development * | ||
Gender, Globalisation and Development: An Introduction (H) * | ||
Gender, Postcoloniality, Development: Critical Perspectives and New Directions (H) | ||
Feminist Economics and Policy: An Introduction (H) | ||
Globalisation, Gender and Development: Theorising Policy and Practice (H) * | ||
Gender Theories in the Modern World: An Interdisciplinary Approach (H) | ||
States and Markets (H) (with permission from the course lecturer) | ||
Nationalism (not available 2017/18) | ||
Public Management Theory and Doctrine (H) | ||
Democratization and its Discontents in Southeast Asia (H) | ||
Local Power in an Era of Globalization, Democratization and Decentralization (H) | ||
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GV4H7 |
Subnational Politics in Comparative Perspective (H) (withdrawn 2017/18) |
Contemporary Debates in Human Geography (H) | ||
Local Economic Development and Policy (not available 2017/18) | ||
Environmental Planning: National and Local Policy Implementation | ||
Gender and Development: Geographical Perspectives (H) (not available 2017/18) | ||
Environment and Development | ||
Cities, People and Poverty in the South (H) | ||
Urban Ethnography (H) | ||
Cities and Social Change in East Asia (H) | ||
The Economics of Regional and Urban Planning (H) ‡ | ||
Urban Theory and Policy in the Global South (H) | ||
Race and Space (H) (not available 2017/18) | ||
Concepts in Environmental Regulation (H) | ||
Global Migration and Development (H) (not available 2017/18) | ||
Environment and Development: Sustainability, Technology and Business (H) | ||
Environment and Development: Resources, Institutions and the Global South (H) | ||
Issues in Environmental Governance (H) | ||
Remaking China: Geographical Aspects of Development and Disparity (H) (not available 2017/18) | ||
International Politics: Asia and the Pacific ‡ (not available 2017/18) | ||
Political Economy of International Labour Migration (H) (not available 2017/18) | ||
Foundations of International Human Rights Law (H) | ||
Selected Topics in International Human Rights Law (H) | ||
International Economic Law (H) | ||
World Poverty and Human Rights (H) (not available 2017/18) | ||
Handling Disruption: Humanitarian Emergencies Management and Development (H) | ||
Population Analysis: Methods and Models (H) | ||
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Basic Education for Social Development (H) (not available 2017/18) | ||
Rural Development and Social Policy (H) § (not available 2017/18) | ||
Urbanisation and Social Policy in the Global South (H) § | ||
Notes | ||
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† For students without a first degree in Economics. | ||
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.
