Environment & Development

King’s College London

Master

In London

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Description

  • Type

    Master

  • Location

    London

The Environment and Development MA/MSc course is designed to provide you with an advanced theoretical understanding of the relationship between development problems and environmental issues, grounded in differing regional contexts across the global South.
The course provides a framework for appraising the understanding of environmental issues and development problems in Asia, Africa and Latin America and encourages you to look beyond conventional North-originated perspectives and assumptions through regional case studies.
The course information sheet is a printable version of the information on this web page, which you can download here.

Key benefits
Academic staff have first-hand experience of environmental and developmental issues in the world’s underdeveloped countries.
Opportunities to carry out original fieldwork either in the UK or overseas for your dissertation.
Excellent tutorial support, extensive course specific interactive teaching and regular classroom discussions.

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Location

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London
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Strand, WC2R 2LS

Start date

On request

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Course programme

Year 1 Courses are divided into modules. You will normally take:

  • MSc – modules totalling 180 credits
  • MA – modules totalling 180 credits

Please note that there are a limited number of spaces available on each optional module. You will have the opportunity to discuss your choices with your personal tutor.

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 theis course page for updates.

Required Modules

You are required to take the following modules:

  • Development & Environmentalism in the ‘South’ (20 credits)
  • Environment, Livelihoods & Development in the ‘South’ (20 credits)
  • Practising Social Research (20 credits)
  • Dissertation in Environment & Development (60 credits)

MSc students are also required to take the following module:

  • Advanced Quantitative & Spatial Methods in Human Geography (20 credits)

If you are a part-time student, during your first year you should plan to take the required modules Practising Social Research, Development and Environmentalism in the ‘South’ and Environment, Livelihoods and Development in the ‘South’. During the second year you will take Dissertation in Environment & Development.

Optional Modules

In addition, you are required to take 20 credits from a range of optional modules. Modules may typically include:

  • Water Resources & Water Policy (20 credits)
  • Disasters & Development (20 credits)
  • Community, Vulnerability & Disaster Risk (20 credits) (prerequisite: Disasters & Development [offered T1], either through taking the module fully or through auditing)
  • Tourism, Conservation & the Environment (20 credits)
  • Climate Change & Culture (20 credits)
  • Climate: Science & History (20 credits)
  • A Practical & Theoretical Evaluation of Sustainable Development (20 credits)

You will then take enough credits to bring your total for the degree to a minimum of 180 from a wide range of optional modules that may typically include:

  • any of the modules listed above
  • any Level 7 (Master’s) modules offered in the Department of Geography
  • any Level 7 (Master’s) modules offered in the India, China and Brazil Institutes.

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