BA Development Studies and...

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    Bachelor's degree

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    City of london

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Programme Code: See May be Combined With
Start of programme: September
Mode of Attendance: Full-time
Have you got a passion for addressing the major issues and challenges facing today’s global community? The BA Development Studies Combined Honours Degree is a 3-year full time degree (or 4 years when combined with a Language) draws upon the significant expertise of our academic staff. This exciting programme examines key topics in international development, while analysing the roles and impact of a wide variety of regional and international actors. By the time you graduate, you will have cultivated a deep knowledge of the causes of - and responses to - poverty, marginalisation and vulnerability in developing countries and the process of dramatic social, economic and political change. Additionally, the nature of the Combined Honours degree enables you to develop a specialist niche for yourself by studying a second subject.
What subjects can you combine it with?
Other disciplines - Economics, Geography, History, International Relations, Law, Linguistics, Middle Eastern Studies, Music, Politics, Social Anthropology, South Asian Studies, South East Asian Studies, Study of Religions
Languages – African Studies, Arabic, Burmese, Chinese, Indonesian, Japanese, Japanese Studies, Korean, Persian, Swahili, Thai, Tibetan, Turkish, Vietnamese
Why study Development Studies Combined Honours at SOAS?
we are specialists within the humanities including in key topics such as international development, gender development, violence and conflict, environmental sustainability, the role of aid and trade in promoting development, as well as refugees and forced migration
our staff have unrivalled practical knowledge across the discipline and regularly inform organisations such as the UN, NGOs and international governments
as well as the curriculum knowledge you will also obtain a rich historical and cultural knowledge about the countries and regions in which you may work in

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Subjects

  • Trade
  • Joint
  • Full Time
  • Staff
  • Conflict
  • Politics
  • Options
  • IT
  • Political Theory
  • Economics
  • International
  • Global
  • Finance
  • Project
  • Government
  • Banking and Finance
  • IT Development
  • Government Politics
  • International Economics
  • Development
  • Political Economy
  • Communication
  • Africa
  • Development Studies
  • Governane
  • Migration studies
  • Non governmental organisations

Course programme

Students take 120 credits per year composed of core and optional modules, which allows for students to design their own intellectual journey while maintaining a strong grasp of the fundamentals.

Highlights include:
  • Introductions to key issues in international development, such as gender and development; violence and conflict; environment and development; the role of aid and trade in promoting development; refugees and forced migration
  • Exploring the history of development, and the interaction of changing theories of development with practice and policy
  • The possibility of undertaking an independent study project, researching a development studies related topic of your own choosing
  • The opportunity to specialise through a range of options

Year One

Students take two core modules (60 credits) in Development Studies. The remaining 60 credits are completed through the other degree subject and/or Open Options (these are chosen from a list of SOAS modules in a subject or language other than those named in the student's degree title). Students on a joint Language degree, having taken three core modules (90 credits) in Year One, will be expected to take one Development Studies module in Year One and the second core module in Year Two or Year Three (depending on when they take their year abroad).

  • Introduction To Development Studies
  • Introduction to Political Economy of Development
Year Two

Students take one core module (30 credits) in Development Studies. They then take 30 credits of Development Studies, Economics and Politics options; any Level 5 Language; or 30 credits of Open Options. The remaining 60 credits are completed through the student's other degree subject. Students on a joint Language degree, having taken three core modules (90 credits) in Year One, must do the Development Studies Year One and Year Two core modules in Year Two.

  • Comparative Studies in Development
Year Two Development Studies Options
  • Development and conflict
  • Development Communication
  • Introduction to Development Practice
  • Governance and development
  • Introduction to global forced migration studies
  • Non-governmental organisations, development and change
  • Political economy of finance, debt and development
  • Key Thinkers and Theories in Development
Year Two Economics Options

N.B. 153400003 Introduction to Economic Analysis is a prerequisite for all of the options below.

  • Banking and Finance
  • International Economics
Year Two Politics Options
  • Comparative political sociology of Asia and Africa
  • Government and politics of China
  • Government and politics of South Asia
  • Government and politics of the Middle East
  • Political theory
  • Politics of development
  • Southeast Asian government and politics
  • Taiwan's Politics and International Relations
  • The state and politics in Africa
Year Three Development Studies OptionsYear Three

Students take 60 credits of Development Studies, Economics and Politics options; of which 30 credits may be Open Options. The remaining 60 credits are completed through the student's other degree subject. Students on a joint Language degree returning from a Year Abroad, must take the remaining Development Studies options in the final year.

  • Development and conflict
  • Development Communication
  • Governance and development
  • Independent study project in Development Studies
  • Introduction to Development Practice
  • Introduction to global forced migration studies
  • Issues in Borders and Development
  • Issues in gender and development
  • Issues in global commodity chains, production networks and informal work
  • Issues of the working poor and development
  • Natural resources, development and change: putting critical analysis into practice
  • Neoliberalism, Democracy and Development
  • Non-governmental organisations, development and change
  • Political economy of finance, debt and development
  • Security (BA)
Year Three Economics Options
  • Principles of Marxist Political Economy
Year Three Politics Options
  • Comparative political sociology of Asia and Africa
  • Government and politics of China
  • Government and politics of South Asia
  • Government and politics of the Middle East
  • Political theory
  • Politics of development
  • Southeast Asian government and politics
  • Taiwan's Politics and International Relations
  • The state and politics in Africa
Programme Specification
  • Programme Specification 2016/17 (pdf; 238kb)
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