Africa and Development MA

You will study two core modules: International Development (IDD) and Livelihoods and Development in Africa (DASA).

You will also choose four optional modules from a wide range within Department of African Studies and Anthropology (DASA) and the International Development Department (IDD). All DASA modules are assessed by coursework; IDD modules vary, and the mix of coursework and written examinations will depend on the options selected. Further module information is available below.

Options available in the Department of African Studies and Anthropology typically include:

• Advanced Perspectives on Africa
• African Fiction and its Critics
• Contemporary Gender Issues in Africa
• Independent Study
• Letting Them Speak: Ethnographies of Marginalisation
• Research Skills and Methods in African Studies
• Slavery and Freedom in Twentieth Century Africa

For more information, see our African Studies and Anthropology module descriptions

Options available in the International Development Department typically include:

• Authoritarianism and Development
• Conflict and Development
• Democracy and Development
• Development Cooperation Beyond Aid
• Development in Practice
• Development Politics
• Development Projects and Programmes
• Disability and Inclusive Development
• Disaster Management
• Economics for Development Practitioners
• Environment and Sustainable Development
• Gender and Development
• Governance and Statebuilding
• Human Resource Management and Development
• Making Policy
• Non-Governmental Organisations and Development
• Post Conflict Reconstruction and Development
• Poverty, Inequality and Development
• Public Economic Management
• Public Financial Management
• Public Management and Leadership
• Public Sector Reform
• Rural Poverty and Development
• Social Analysis of Inequality, Poverty and Development
• Urban Poverty and Policy

For more information, see our International Development Department module descriptions

In addition to your taught modules, you will conduct a piece of independent research with the support of a supervisor, culminating in a 15,000-word dissertation.

Please note that the optional module information listed on the website for this programme is intended to be indicative, and the availability of optional modules may vary from year to year. Where a module is no longer available we will let you know as soon as we can and help you to make other choices.