MSc in Development Studies
Programme Code: TMDV
Department: International Development
For students starting this programme of study in 2018/19
Guidelines for interpreting programme regulations
Full-year programme. Students must take courses to the value of three full units 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.
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Course number, title (unit value) | |
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Paper 2 |
DV410 Research Design and Dissertation in International Development (1.0) | |
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MY410 Fundamentals of Research Design for International Development (0.0) | |
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DV445 Cutting Edge Issues in Development Thinking & Practice (0.0) | |
Papers 3 & 4 |
Courses to the value of 2 unit(s) from the following: A | |
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AN451 Anthropology of Politics (0.5) | |
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AN456 Anthropology of Economy (1): Production and Exchange (0.5) | |
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AN457 Anthropology of Economy (2): Transformation and Globalisation (0.5) | |
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DV407 Poverty (0.5) | |
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DV411 Population and Development: an Analytical Approach (0.5) (not available 2022/23) | |
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DV413 Environmental Problems and Development Interventions (0.5) # | |
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DV415 Global Environmental Governance (0.5) | |
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DV418 African Development (0.5) | |
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DV420 Complex Emergencies (0.5) | |
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DV421 Critical Perspectives on Global Health and Development (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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DV429 Global Civil Society (0.5) (withdrawn 2018/19) | |
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DV432 China in Developmental Perspective (0.5) # (not available 2022/23) | |
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DV433 The Informal Economy and Development (0.5) (not available 2022/23) | |
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DV434 Human Security (0.5) | |
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DV435 African Political Economy (0.5) | |
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DV442 Key Issues in Development Studies (0.5) | |
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DV444 Global Health Challenges: Epidemics, Disease, and Public Health Response (0.5) # (not available 2022/23) | |
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DV447 Youth and Gendered Violence (0.5) # (not available 2022/23) | |
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DV450 Policy, Bureaucracy and Development: Theory and Practice of Policy Design, Implementation and Evaluation (0.5) # (withdrawn 2018/19) | |
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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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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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DV458 Key issues in Global Health and Development (0.5) | |
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DV460 Bayesian Reasoning for Qualitative Social Science: A modern approach to case study inference (0.5) # (not available 2022/23) | |
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DV483 Information Communication Technologies and Socio-economic Development (0.5) | |
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DV490 Economic Development Policy I: Applied Policy Analysis for Macroeconomic Development (0.5) | |
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DV491 Economic Development Policy II: Microeconomic Analysis (0.5) # | |
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DV492 Economic Development Policy III: Government Policy Analysis (0.5) # | |
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EH446 Economic Development of East and Southeast Asia (1.0) # | |
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GI407 Globalisation, Gender and Development (1.0) 1 (not available 2022/23) | |
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GI409 Gender, Globalisation and Development: An Introduction (0.5) 2 | |
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GI411 Gender, Post/coloniality and Development: Critical Perspectives and New Directions (0.5) # (not available 2022/23) | |
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GI418 Feminist Economics and Policy: An Introduction (0.5) # | |
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GI420 Global Development and Its Discontents: Feminist Perspectives (0.5) 3 | |
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GV441 States and Markets (0.5) | |
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GV479 Nationalism (1.0) (withdrawn 2018/19) | |
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GV483 Public Management Theory and Doctrine (0.5) | |
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GV4C9 Globalization and Democratization in Southeast Asia (0.5) | |
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GV4D3 Local Power in an Era of Globalization, Democratization, and Decentralization (0.5) | |
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GV4K1 Opening Government: Transparency, Accountability, and Participation (0.5) | |
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GY403 Contemporary Debates in Human Geography (0.5) | |
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GY408 Local Economic Development and Policy (1.0) (withdrawn 2019/20) | |
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GY420 Environmental Regulation: Implementing Policy (1.0) | |
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GY421 Gender and Development: Geographical Perspectives (0.5) # (withdrawn 2020/21) | |
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GY423 Environment and Development (1.0) # (withdrawn 2019/20) | |
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GY432 Urban Ethnography (0.5) (not available 2022/23) | |
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GY438 Urban Asia: Cities and Social Change (0.5) | |
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GY447 The Economics of Regional and Urban Planning (0.5) # D | |
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GY459 Urban Theory and Policy in the Global South (0.5) | |
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GY464 Race and Space (0.5) (withdrawn 2019/20) | |
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GY465 Concepts in Environmental Regulation (0.5) | |
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GY467 Global Migration and Development (0.5) (withdrawn 2020/21) | |
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GY468 Environment and Development: Sustainability, Technology and Business (0.5) # (withdrawn 2019/20) | |
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GY469 Environment and Development: Ecosystem Services and the Global South (0.5) # (withdrawn 2019/20) | |
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GY475 Issues in Environmental Governance (0.5) | |
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GY480 Remaking China: Geographical aspects of Development and Disparity (0.5) (not available 2022/23) | |
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IR418 International Politics: Asia & the Pacific (1.0) E (not available 2022/23) | |
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IR447 Political Economy of International Labour Migration (0.5) # (withdrawn 2021/22) | |
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LL4AW Foundations of International Human Rights Law (0.5) # (not available 2022/23) | |
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LL4AX Selected Topics in International Human Rights Law (0.5) | |
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MG460 Emergencies Management: Humanitarian Intervention and Digital Innovation (0.5) | |
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PP448 International Political Economy and Development (0.5) | |
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PP449 Comparative Political Economy and Development (0.5) | |
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SA481 Population Analysis: Methods and Models (0.5) # (withdrawn 2019/20) | |
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SA4C2 Basic Education for Social Development (0.5) # (withdrawn 2019/20) | |
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SA4E6 Rural Development and Social Policy (0.5) # F (withdrawn 2019/20) | |
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SA4H7 SA415 Urbanisation and Social Policy in the Global South (0.5) # G (withdrawn 2019/20) | |
Prerequisite Requirements and Mutually Exclusive Options
1 : GI407 can not be taken with GI409, GI420
2 : GI409 can not be taken with GI407, GI420
3 : GI420 can not be taken with GI409, GI407
Footnotes
A : 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.
B : For students without a first degree in Economics.
C : Entry to this course may be restricted.
D : Entry to this course may be restricted.
E : Entry to this course may be restricted.
F : Course designed for those with a minimum of one year's practical working experience in developing countries; seminars draw extensively on students' own experience. Entry may be restricted. Interested students should attend lectures and consult the lecturers.
G : Course designed for those with a minimum of one year's practical working experience in developing countries; seminars draw extensively on students' own experience. Entry may be restricted. Interested students should attend lectures and consult the lecturers.
# means there may be prerequisites for this course. Please view the course guide for more information.
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