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Students
Tuition Fee
GBP 17,500
Per year
Start Date
2025-09-01
Medium of studying
On campus
Duration
1 years
Program Facts
Program Details
Degree
Masters
Major
Environmental Sciences | International Relations
Area of study
Social Sciences | Natural Science
Education type
On campus
Timing
Full time
Course Language
English
Tuition Fee
Average International Tuition Fee
GBP 17,500
Intakes
Program start dateApplication deadline
2025-09-01-
2026-01-01-
About Program

Program Overview


Global Development MA

Overview

The Global Development MA offers an interdisciplinary, practical, skill-based training to become an engaged, ethical development thinker and practitioner upon graduation.


Course Structure

The programme is structured around three interrelated knowledge areas: development, social justice, and sustainability. You'll learn from interrelated academic disciplines including political economy, political sociology, international relations, and human geography.


Core Modules

  • Development Policy and Practice: This module aims to expose you to key frameworks, tools, and instruments used in the practice of development; familiarise you with the debates, challenges, and controversies on important aspects of development practice; and offer practical development insights, skills, and competencies.
  • Dissertation and Research Methods in Global Development: The module will give you supervised guidance and research method training through a series of research method workshops, the dissertation induction, and individual dissertation supervision sessions in preparing your dissertation on an agreed research topic.
  • Global Political Economy of Development: This module focuses on development policies and practices from a political economy perspective. You'll examine relations between the state, market, and civil society and will analyse the politics of growth, aid, agriculture and food, natural resources, and labour.
  • Global Politics of Energy and Climate Change: This module aims at evaluating the relevance of contemporary debates in international relations and political economy to the study of energy security, energy markets, and climate change.
  • Governance, Policy Practice, and Sustainable Development: This module explores and compares a range of approaches to analysing and evaluating governance and policy in relation to questions and challenges of sustainable development.
  • Just Development Futures: Ideas, Concepts, and Debates: This module will provide you with a systematic and coherent introduction to the main theoretical advances, critical debates, and policy-related issues in the field of just development futures from an inter-disciplinary and cross-cultural perspective.

Option Modules

  • Contemporary Controversies in International Security: Intervention, Terrorism, and Self Defence
  • Controversies in United States Foreign Policies and Processes
  • Gender, Sexuality, and International Relations
  • Global Change: Toward a New Non-Western Order?
  • Governance of the European Union
  • Migration and Development
  • Regional Dimensions of Energy Security
  • The European Union as an International Actor
  • The State, Politics, and Violence

Entry Requirements

  • A minimum of a lower second-class honours degree (2:2)
  • If your first language is not English, you should have an IELTS 6.5 with at least 6.5 in writing and no element below 6.0

Fees and Funding

  • UK tuition fee: £10,700 (Price per academic year)
  • International tuition fee: £17,500 (Price per academic year)
  • Alumni discount available
  • Funding options available, including Student Finance England (SFE) and scholarships

Teaching and Assessment

  • Teaching methods include lectures, seminars, workshops, problem-based and blended learning, and practical application
  • Assessment types include coursework, practical, and written exams

Research Groups

  • Centre for the Study of Democracy

Supporting You

  • Study support, including workshops, 1-2-1 support, and online resources
  • Personal tutors to support you in fulfilling your academic and personal potential
  • Student advice team to provide specialist advice on a range of issues
  • Extra-curricular activities, including volunteering opportunities, sports and fitness activities, and student events

Course Location

  • Our Regent Campus is composed of three sites, situated on and around Regent Street – one of the most famous and vibrant streets in London
  • Our Social Sciences subjects are based at 309 Regent Street, which includes recently refurbished social spaces, gym facilities, and our Regent Street Cinema

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