Latin American Development

King’s College London

Master

In London

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Description

  • Type

    Master

  • Location

    London

Our Latin American Development MSc combines a thorough grounding in development theory with an in-depth study of Latin America. By exploring the contemporary and historical experiences of this region, you will develop an understanding of the deep roots of social change and the background to current development challenges and policy debates.
Key benefits
Provides a multidisciplinary social scientific framework for understanding the development experiences of Latin American countries, including approaches from economics, political science, history, sociology and management studies.
Draws on the broader expertise within King’s and its Global Institutes.
Wide range of optional taught modules.
We accept students from a range of academic backgrounds and mid-career professionals.

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London
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Strand, WC2R 2LS

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Subjects

  • Latin
  • Global

Course programme

Year 1

Courses are divided into modules. You will normally take modules totalling a minimum of 180 credits.

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 for MSc Latin American Development (60 credits)
  • Latin America in the 20th Century and Beyond (20 credits)
Optional Modules

In addition, you are required to take 80 credits from a range of 20-credit optional modules in the Department of International Development.

If you are a part-time student you are required to take 40 credits worth of required module in your first year plus 40 credits of optional modules, then the required dissertation module in your second year plus another 40 credits worth of option modules to make up the 180 credits.

Optional modules may typically include:

  • Gender and Social Policy in Emerging Economies (20 credits)
  • Comparative Public Policy Analysis in Emergining 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)
  • Health Policy and Healthcare Systems in Emerging Economies (20 credits)
  • Multinational Enterprises, Global Value Chains, and Local Development (20 credits)
  • Race, Privilege and Identity (20 credits)
  • Social Justice: Ethnographic insights (20 credits)
  • Project Management in International Development (20 credits)
  • Practical and Theoretical Evaluation of Sustainable Development (20 credits)
  • Political Economy of Market Reform (20 credits)
  • Quantitative Research Methods for Causal Inference (20 credits)
  • Qualitative research methods (20 credits)
  • Advanced quantitative methods for casual interference (20 credits)
  • Modules from the African Leadership Centre
  • Up to 40 credits from other departments across the university, subject to approvals

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