MSc Development Studies

SOAS, University of London
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  • Type

    Master

  • Location

    City of london

  • Start date

    Different dates available

Start of programme: September intake only
Mode of Attendance: Full-time or Part-time
Who is this programme for?: The programme attracts applications from students with a variety of academic and experiential backgrounds. We welcome applications from those who have worked in a broad field of development, but also from students without relevant work experience who can demonstrate a strong interest in, and understanding of, development issues. A good first degree in a social science is preferred.
Development Studies is a dynamic field concerned with processes of change in the South - social and economic, political and cultural - and the major policy challenges they present to efforts to overcome poverty and insecurity. This programme provides a solid interdisciplinary social science formation in development theory and practice and develops students’ capacities for independent and critical analysis.
Highlights include:
the meanings of development and the challenges it faces
neoliberalism and its critiques
industrialisation, labour and capital
state failure, poverty and insecurity
gender and class analysis
NGOs, civil society and social movements
globalisation, commodity chains and trade
the agrarian question, peasantry and land
The MSc programme’s emphasis on transferable analytical skills has been of great benefit to the many graduates who have returned to, or taken up, professional careers in development in international organisations, government agencies and non-government organisations. Students also benefit from the wide range of modules on offer, both within the Department and across the School, allowing them to create individualised interdisciplinary programmes.
Convenors
Subir Sinha

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Subjects

  • Social Movements
  • Part Time
  • International
  • Cultural Awareness
  • IT
  • Economics
  • Government
  • IT Development
  • Social Science
  • Skills and Training
  • Development
  • Development economics
  • Quantitative Methods
  • Development Studies
  • Transferable skills
  • Analytical skill
  • Interpersonal Skills
  • Critical analysis skills
  • Critical skills

Course programme

Overview

Students must take 180 credits comprised of 120 taught credits (including core and option modules) and a 60 credit dissertation.

All students take core modules, ‘Political Economy of Development’, ‘Theory, Policy & Practice’ and a ‘Dissertation in Development Studies’. Through these modules, students build their analytical skills and knowledge of the main issues and debates in Development Studies.

Specialisation

Students also take option modules, allowing them to specialise in particular areas of development and possibly using them to develop a dissertation in a related theme. By tying optional modules to their individual dissertation topic, students tailor their degree to suit their own interests and career development goals.

Please note that not all option modules may run every year. Modules at other institutions (intercollegiate) are not part of the approved programme structure.

Part-time Study

Students can take this programme part-time over 2 or 3 years. Students usually complete their core modules in Year 1 and their option modules and dissertation in subsequent years.

Core Modules

Students take the following THREE core modules:-

  • Political Economy of Development
  • Theory, policy and practice of development
  • Dissertation in Development Studies
(1) Option Modules in the Department of Development Studies

Students choose modules to the value of 30 credits from List 1 and 30 credits from List 2 below:

  • Agrarian Development, Food Policy and Rural Poverty
  • Aid and Development
  • Battlefields of Method: Approaches to International Development Research
  • Borders and Development
  • Civil society, social movements and the development process
  • Development Practice
  • Environment, Governance and Development
  • Energy Transition, Nature, and Development in a Time of Climate Change
  • Famine and food security
  • Fundamentals of research methods for Development Studies
  • Gender and Development
  • Global Commodity Chains, Production Networks and Informal Work
  • Global Health and Development
  • Issues in Forced Migration
  • Marxist Political Economy and Global Development
  • Migration and Policy
  • Natural resources, development and change: putting critical analysis into practice
  • Neoliberalism, Democracy and Global Development
  • Problems of Development in the Middle East and North Africa
  • Security
  • The Working Poor and Development
  • Understanding Economic Migration: Theories, Patterns and Policies
  • Water and Development:Conflict and Governance
  • Water Resources: Justice and Governance
(2) Open Options in other Departments

Open module options in other departments

Non-Assessed Course

All MSc students in Development Studies are eligible to attend the one-term, non-assessed course, Economics for Beginners, which introduces students to basic concepts in microeconomics, macroeconomics, development economics, and statistics and econometrics.

This is the structure for 2018/19 applicants

If you are a current student you can find structure information on Moodle or through your Department.

Programme Specification
  • Programme Specification 2017/18 (pdf; 208kb)
  • Programme Specification 2016/17 (pdf; 218kb)
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