Emerging Economies and International Development

Postgraduate

In London

higher than £ 9000

Description

  • Type

    Postgraduate

  • Location

    London

Entry requirements & how to apply
Minimum requirements  2:1

Bachelor's degree with 2:1 honours in such related subjects as international development, politics, economics or other social science or regional studies.

You will also be considered if you have professional development-related work experience.


International requirements   Visit our admissions webpages to view our International entry requirements.
English Language requirements Band B Visit our admissions webpages to view our English language entry requirements.
Application procedure

Applications must be made online using King’s online application portal apply.kcl.ac.uk and a non-refundable application fee of £60 applies. All applications are assessed by an admissions tutor.

As part of the evaluation of your application you might be asked to attend an online or telephone interview.

Personal statement and supporting information

You will be asked to submit the following documents in order for your application to be considered:

Personal Statement Yes Please submit a one-page (maximum) personal statement with your application, explaining why you wish to apply for this programme and why you feel it matches your interests, academic background and, if relevant, your career plans and what you feel you would bring to the course and fellow students. Please include details of your previous exposure to the subject of emerging economies, eg through coursework on your undergraduate degree, language studies, career interests, time spent in a relevant country etc.
Previous Academic Study Yes A copy (or copies) of your official academic transcript(s), showing the subjects studied and marks obtained. If you have already completed your degree, copies of your official degree certificate will also be required. Applicants with academic documents issued in a language other than English, will need to submit both the original and official translation of their documents.

Facilities

Location

Start date

London
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10 Cutcombe Road, SE5 9RJ

Start date

On request

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Subjects

  • Public
  • International
  • Economics
  • English
  • Credit
  • Evaluation
  • Politics
  • English Language
  • Macroeconomics
  • Development
  • Research methods
  • Policy analysis
  • Strategy
  • Emerging economies
  • Economies
  • Development Theory
  • Inclusive Development
  • Local Development

Course programme

Course detail Description

Our MSc course provides you with high-quality post-graduate teaching and research training in the analysis of emerging economies. It offers a distinctive approach to the study of development by focusing on rising economic powers and some of the questions surrounding their emergence as key players in global politics and the economy. It also draws on social scientific expertise from across other departments in the Faculties of Social Sciences & Public Policy and Arts & Humanities.

This course focuses on reviewing economic development theory to ask whether emerging economies offer a new model or models of development. It looks at the strategies that they have adopted to promote development, how inclusive and sustainable or enduring these new strategies are and how emerging markets solve the difficult problems of promoting growth over the longer term. While investigating this last question we will discuss how these countries handle the development and diffusion of technology, how they manage trade and financial flows, how they balance the role of the state and the market, and how they deal with problems of institutional underdevelopment and weak systems of law and accountability.

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Course format and assessment

Teaching

For every 20-credit module we will typically provide 20 hours of lectures and seminars, and we will expect you to undertake 180 hours of independent study. For your dissertation, you will usually have five hours of dissertation workshops and six hours of one-to-one or group consultation with supervisors. To complement this, you should undertake 589 hours of independent study and project work. Typically, one credit equates to 10 hours of work.

Assessment

Performance on taught modules in the Department of International Development is normally assessed through essays and other written assignments such as oral group presentations and occasionally by examination, depending on the modules selected. We will assess your dissertation module through a proposal and a 12,000-word dissertation.

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Structure

Year 1

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

If you are a full-time student you will take one required module worth 20 credits plus 100 credits of optional modules and a required dissertation worth 60 credits to make up 180 credits in total.

If you are a part-time student you will take one required module in your first year worth 20 credits plus 60 credits of optional modules. During your second year you will take the required Dissertation module worth 60 credits 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.

Required Modules

You are required to take the following modules:

  • Development Theory and Emerging Economies (20 credits)
  • Dissertation & Research Methods (60 credits)
Optional Modules

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

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

Emerging Economies and International Development

higher than £ 9000