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MSc in Population and Development

Programme Code: TMPNDV

Department: International Development

For students starting this programme of study in 2017/18

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-assessed course SA4C1 and a dissertation as shown.

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

DV400 Development: History, Theory and Policy (1.0) #

 

OR

DV442 Key Issues in Development Studies and one other half-unit DV course from the Paper 3 options list:

 

DV442 Key Issues in Development Studies (0.5)

Paper 3 options list (DV courses)

Paper 2

Courses to the value of 1.0 unit(s) from the following:

 

DV411 Population and Development: an Analytical Approach (0.5)

 

DV444 Global Health and Population Change (0.5) #

 

DV456 Population, Health and Development: Evidence and Projections (0.5) #

 

DV458 Demographic Change and Development (0.5)  (not available 2018/19)

 

SA481 Population Analysis: Methods and Models (0.5) #

Paper 3

Courses to the value of 1.0 unit(s) from the following:

 

DV400 Development: History, Theory and Policy (1.0) #

 

DV407 Poverty (0.5)  (not available 2018/19)

 

DV413 Environmental Problems and Development Interventions (0.5) #

 

DV418 African Development (0.5)

 

DV420 Complex Emergencies (0.5)

 

DV421 Global Health and Development (0.5)

 

DV428 Managing Humanitarianism (0.5)

 

DV442 Key Issues in Development Studies (0.5)

 

DV455 Advocacy, Campaigning and Grassroots Activism (0.5)

 

DV457 Sexual and Reproductive Health Programmes: Design, Implementation and Evaluation (0.5)

 

GI414 Theorising Gender and Social Policy (0.5)

 

GI417 Gender, Population, and Policy (0.5)

 

GY421 Gender and Development : Geographical Perspectives (0.5) #  (not available 2018/19)

 

GY431 Cities, People and Poverty in the South (0.5) #

 

HP403 Health Systems and Policies in Developing Countries (0.5)

 

PB422 Health Communication (0.5)  (not available 2018/19)

 

SA4F1 Migration: Current Research, Critical Approaches (0.5)

 

SA4H7 Urbanisation and Social Policy in the Global South (0.5)

 

SA4N5 Global Ageing (0.5)  (withdrawn 2018/19)

 

Any other course approved by the tutor, by special permission only.

Paper 2 options list

Paper 4

SA4C1 Long Essay and the Research Process (0.0)  (withdrawn 2018/19)

Paper 5

DV459 Dissertation: Population and Development (1.0) A  (withdrawn 2018/19)

Paper 2 options list

DV411 Population and Development: an Analytical Approach (0.5)

DV444 Global Health and Population Change (0.5) #

DV456 Population, Health and Development: Evidence and Projections (0.5) #

DV458 Demographic Change and Development (0.5)  (not available 2018/19)

SA481 Population Analysis: Methods and Models (0.5) #


Paper 3 options list (DV courses)

DV400 Development: History, Theory and Policy (1.0) #

DV407 Poverty (0.5)  (not available 2018/19)

DV413 Environmental Problems and Development Interventions (0.5) #

DV418 African Development (0.5)

DV420 Complex Emergencies (0.5)

DV421 Global Health and Development (0.5)

DV428 Managing Humanitarianism (0.5)

DV442 Key Issues in Development Studies (0.5)

DV455 Advocacy, Campaigning and Grassroots Activism (0.5)

DV457 Sexual and Reproductive Health Programmes: Design, Implementation and Evaluation (0.5)


Footnotes

A : To be handed in by 1 September. 

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

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.

This programme has been discontinued. Last year of entry 2017/18.