Emerging Economies and International Development

Year 1

Course are divided into modules. You will normally take modules totalling 180 credits.

If you are a part-time student you will take one required module in your first year plus 60 credits of optional modules. During your second year you will take the required Dissertation module plus another 40 credits worth of optional modules to make up 180 credits in total.

King’s College London reviews the modules offered on a regular basis to provide up-to-date, innovative and relevant programmes of study. Therefore, modules offered may change. We suggest you keep an eye on this course page for updates.

You are required to take the following modules:

• Development Theory and Emerging Economies (20 credits)
• Dissertation for MSc Emerging Economies & International Development (60 credits)

In addition, you are required to take modules totalling 100 credits from a wide range of options that may typically include:

• Gender and Social Policy in Emerging Economies (20 credits)
• Industrial Development: Strategy and Competitiveness of East Asian Firm (20 credits)
• Commodities, Credit and Crises: Topics in Macroeconomics of Development (20 credits)
• The Politics of Managing Public Finances in Emerging Economies (20 credits)
• Poverty, Inequality and Inclusive Development (20 credits)
• Political Economy of Market Reform (20 credits)
• Health Policy and Healthcare Systems in Emerging Economies (20 credits)
• Gender and Social Policy in Emerging Economies (20 credits)
• Comparative Public Policy Analysis In Emerging Economies (20 credits)
• Latin America in the 20th Century and Beyond (20 credits)
• Multinational Enterprises, Global Value Chains, and Local Development (20 credits)
• Project Management in International Development (20 credits)
• Advanced Quantitative Methods for Causal Inference (20 credits)
• Race, Privilege and Identity (20 credits)
• Qualitative research methods (20 credits)
• Social Justice: Ethnographic insights (20 credits)
• Practical and Theoretical Evaluation of Sustainable Development (20 credits)
• Modules from the African Leadership Centre
• Up to 40 credits from other departments across the university, subject to approvals