Program Overview

Máster Globalización, Desarrollo y Cooperación

The Master's program in Globalization, Development, and Cooperation at the University of Barcelona is designed to provide students with a comprehensive understanding of the complex relationships between globalization, development, and cooperation.

Program Structure

The program is divided into two courses, each lasting several months.

First Course

• January to July 2026
  • Module 1: The Global Economic System
    • The capitalist world system: formation, functioning, and evolution.
    • The structure of the global economy: resources, production, and trade.
    • Globalization and its challenges.
  • Module 2: Concept, Context, and Measurement of Development
    • The concept of development and its measurement.
    • Poverty: concept and measurement.
    • Theories and paradigms of development.
  • Module 3: The Multidimensionality of Development
    • Environment, technology, and development.
    • Anthropology of development.
    • Conflict and peacebuilding in the world.
    • The dimension of gender in cooperation and development.
  • Module 4: Methodology of Research and Master's Thesis Project
    • The objective of this module is to provide students with the methodological tools necessary to carry out their Master's thesis project.

Second Course

• October 2026 to July 2027
  • Module 5: Cooperation for Development
    • Introduction to cooperation for development.
    • The complexity of cooperation: actors and functions.
    • The OECD and its role in development cooperation.
    • Non-governmental cooperation: concept, typology, origin, and evolution.
    • Spanish cooperation: origins, evolution, structure, and priorities.
  • Module 6: Socially Transformative Projects
    • The Diagnostic Rural Participatory (DRP), a tool for development cooperation.
    • Identification, formulation, monitoring, and evaluation of projects using the Logical Framework Approach.
  • Module 7: Other Modalities of Cooperation
    • Another vision of cooperation.
    • Education for global citizenship.
    • Food sovereignty.
    • Humanitarian action and refugees.
    • Africa and cooperation.
    • Digital ecosystem, cyberactivism, and transformation.
    • Social and solidarity economy.
    • Ethical finance.
    • Fair trade.
    • Media and development.
    • Ethics and social transformation.
  • Module 8: Master's Thesis
    • The objective of this module is to elaborate the Master's thesis, in groups, according to the proposals made in the first course and under the supervision of the respective tutors.