Program Overview

MSc Global Development with Work Placement Year

Key Information

• Duration: 2 years
• Start of programme: September
• Attendance mode: Full-time or part-time
• Location: On campus
• Fees:
  • Home: £12,220 (+£1,385 placement year fee)
  • International: £25,320 (+£1,385 placement year fee)
• Entry requirements: We will consider all applications with 2:2 (or international equivalent) or higher.

Course Overview

The MSc Global Development with Work Placement Year programme provides a solid interdisciplinary social science formation in development theory and practice and develops students’ capacities for independent and critical analysis.

Structure

• Taught modules: 120 credits (including core, compulsory, and optional modules)
• Dissertation: 60 credits
• Placement year: Optional additional 60 credits (on top of the 180 mandatory credits)

Core and Compulsory Modules

• Theory, policy, and practice of development (30 credits)
• Political Economy of Development (30 credits)

Optional Modules

• Civil society, social movements, and the development process (15 credits)
• Gender and Development (15 credits)
• Development Practice (15 credits)
• Fundamentals of research methods for Development Studies (15 credits)
• War to Peace Transitions (15 credits)
• Problems of Development in the Middle East and North Africa (15 credits)
• Global Commodity Chains, Production Networks, and Informal Work (15 credits)
• Agrarian Development, Food Policy, and Rural Poverty (15 credits)
• Aid and Development (15 credits)
• Migration and Policy (15 credits)
• Labour, Activism, and Global Development (15 credits)
• Water Justice: Rights, Access, and Movements (Development Studies) (15 credits)
• Water and Development: Commodification, Ecology, and Globalisation (Development Studies) (15 credits)
• Global Health and Development (15 credits)
• International Development Virtual Placement (15 credits)
• Cities and Development (15 credits)
• Feminist Political Economy and Global Development (15 credits)
• Issues in Forced Migration (15 credits)
• Borders and Development (15 credits)

Teaching and Learning

Our teaching and learning approach is designed to support and encourage students in their own process of self-learning, and to develop their own ideas, responses, and critique of international development practice and policy.

Employment

A degree from the Department of Development Studies at SOAS will further develop your understanding of the world and how society is organised, with specific focus on violence and conflict, the role of aid, refugees, and forced migration. Graduates leave with a range of transferable skills, including critical thinking, analytical skills, and cultural awareness.

Recent graduates have been hired by:

• Amnesty International
• BBC World Service
• British Embassy Brussels
• Department for International Development
• Economist Intelligence Unit (EIU)
• Embassy of Japan
• Government of Pakistan
• Hong Kong Economic & Trade Office
• International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC)
• International Labour Organization (ILO)
• KPMG LLP
• Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF)
• National Health and Medical Research Council
• Overseas Development Institute
• Oxfam
• Royal Norwegian Embassy
• Save the Children UK
• The World Bank
• Thinking Beyond Borders
• US Department of State
• UN High Commissioner for Refugees
• WaterAid

Scholarships

• Tibawi Trust Award
• Felix Non-Indian Scholarship
• Felix Scholarships
• Sasakawa Studentships
• SOAS Master's Scholarships (Home)

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