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 four 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: £5,350 (Price per academic year)
• International tuition fee: £8,750 (Price per academic year)
• Alumni discount available
• Funding available, including Student Finance England (SFE) and scholarships
• Additional costs may apply

Teaching and Assessment

• Teaching methods include lectures, seminars, workshops, problem-based and blended learning, and practical application
• Assessments include practical and coursework, such as presentations, podcasts, blogs, essays, in-class tests, portfolios, and dissertation

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

Related Courses

• Diplomacy and Global Politics MA
• International Relations MA
• Global Criminology MA