MSc in Health and International Development
Programme Code: TMHEINDE
Department: International Development
For students starting this programme of study in 2019/20
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 DV444 and DV456, and their dissertation topic must be approved as being appropriate for this specialism.
Applied Development Economics: students must take at least two of DV490, DV491, and 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 1.0 unit(s) from the following: | |
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DV411 Population and Development: an Analytical Approach (0.5) (not available 2023/24) | |
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DV421 Critical Perspectives on Global Health and Development (0.5) (not available 2023/24) | |
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DV444 Global Health Challenges: Epidemics, Disease, and Public Health Response (0.5) # | |
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DV456 Population, Health and Development: Evidence and Projections (0.5) # | |
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DV457 Sexual and Reproductive Health Programmes: Design, Implementation and Evaluation (0.5) | |
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MY405 Research Design for Policy and Programme Evaluation (0.5) | |
Paper 3 |
Courses to the value of 1.0 unit(s) from the following: | |
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DV407 Poverty (0.5) | |
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DV413 Environmental Problems and Development Interventions (0.5) # | |
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DV418 African Development (0.5) | |
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DV420 Complex Emergencies (0.5) | |
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DV424 International Institutions and Late Development (0.5) | |
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DV428 Managing Humanitarianism (0.5) | |
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DV447 Youth and Gendered Violence (0.5) # (not available 2023/24) | |
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DV453 International Development Consultancy Project (0.5) | |
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DV454 Gender, labour markets and social change in the Global South: theory, evidence, public action (0.5) | |
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DV455 Advocacy, Campaigning and Grassroots Activism (0.5) | |
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DV460 Bayesian Reasoning for Qualitative Social Science: A modern approach to case study inference (0.5) # (not available 2023/24) | |
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DV462 Forced Migration and Refugees (0.5) | |
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DV463 Civil society, security and development (0.5) (not available 2023/24) | |
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DV483 Information Communication Technologies and Socio-economic Development (0.5) | |
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GY431 Cities, People and Poverty in the South (0.5) # (not available 2023/24) | |
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HP403 Health Systems and Policies in Developing Countries (0.5) (withdrawn 2023/24) | |
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HP404 Global Health Policy: Institutions, Actors and Politics (0.5) | |
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HP405 Social Determinants of Health (0.5) | |
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HP412 Global Health Security (0.5) (not available 2023/24) | |
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HP421 Economic Analysis for Health Policy in Low- and Middle-Income Countries (0.5) | |
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PB422 Health Communication (0.5) (not available 2023/24) | |
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SP431 Population Analysis: Methods and Models (0.5) # (withdrawn 2021/22) | |
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Any other course approved by tutor by special permission only. | |
Paper 4 |
DV410 Research Design and Dissertation in International Development (1.0) | |
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MY410 Fundamentals of Research Design for International Development (0.0) (not available 2023/24) | |
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DV445 Cutting Edge Issues in Development Thinking & Practice (0.0) | |
Paper 2 options list
DV411 Population and Development: an Analytical Approach (0.5) (not available 2023/24) | |
DV421 Critical Perspectives on Global Health and Development (0.5) (not available 2023/24) | |
DV444 Global Health Challenges: Epidemics, Disease, and Public Health Response (0.5) # | |
DV456 Population, Health and Development: Evidence and Projections (0.5) # | |
DV457 Sexual and Reproductive Health Programmes: Design, Implementation and Evaluation (0.5) | |
MY405 Research Design for Policy and Programme Evaluation (0.5) | |
Prerequisite Requirements and Mutually Exclusive Options
# 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 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.