Environment, Development and Policy MA

University of Sussex

Master

In Brighton

£ 8,500 VAT inc.

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Description

  • Type

    Master

  • Location

    Brighton

  • Duration

    1 Year

This MA highlights a range of environmental and developmental challenges surrounding sustainability. You’ll gain an understanding of how policy has sought to address them.

You are exposed to a range of tools for understanding how knowledge, institutions, social relations and power affect these issues. This allows you to develop a deep understanding of the relationship between environment, development and political policy.

Facilities

Location

Start date

Brighton (East Sussex)
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Sussex House, BN1 9RH

Start date

On request

About this course

Our graduates go on to work in national and international development agencies within and beyond government, as well as in NGOs and community organisations.

Recent graduates have gone on to work at:

the UNDP
the Centre for Science and the Environment, India
Ministry of the Environment, Japan
International Organization for Migration
a range of NGOs in Brazil, Ecuador, Indonesia, Mexico and Vietnam.

100% of students from the Environment, Development and Policy MA were in work or further study six months after graduating. Recent School of Global Studies graduates have gone on to jobs including:

policy advisor, Actionaid
project support officer, Environment Agency
systems and marketing support, Natural World Safaris.

You should normally have an upper second-class (2.1) undergraduate honours degree or above.

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Subjects

  • Global
  • Dissertation
  • Critical
  • Political Economy
  • Research
  • Anthropologies
  • Critical Debates
  • Environment
  • Humanitarian
  • Professional

Course programme

Modules

These modules are running in the academic year 2018/19. We also plan to offer them in future academic years. They may become unavailable due to staff availability, student demand or updates to our curriculum. We’ll make sure to let our applicants know of such changes to modules at the earliest opportunity.

Core modules

Core modules are taken by all students on the course. They give you a solid grounding in your chosen subject and prepare you to explore the topics that interest you most.
  • Dissertation (EDP)
  • Critical Debates in Development Theory
  • Political Economy of the Environment
  • Research Methods and Professional Skills (Int Dev)
Options

Alongside your core modules, you can choose options to broaden your horizons and tailor your course to your interests.
  • Dissertation with Placement (Global Studies)
  • Activism for Development and Social Justice
  • Anthropologies of Food
  • Climate Change and Energy Policy
  • Critical Debates in Environment and Development
  • Environment, Resources, Security
  • Fair Trade, Ethical Business & New Moral Economies
  • Knowledge, Power and Resistance
  • Livelihoods, Inequalities and Rural Change
  • Migration, Inequality and Social Change
  • Poverty, Vulnerability and the Global Economy
  • Refugees, Displacement and Humanitarian Responses
  • Sexuality and Development: Intimacies, Health and Rights in Global Perspective
  • Transnationalism, Diaspora and Migrants' Lives

Additional information

International students: £16,750 per year

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Environment, Development and Policy MA

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