MSc in Development Studies
Programme Code: TMDV
Department: International Development
For students starting this programme of study in 2024/25
Guidelines for interpreting programme regulations
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Paper 1 |
DV400 Development: History, Theory and Policy (1.0) (withdrawn 2025/26) |
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Paper 2 |
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DV410 Research Design and Dissertation in International Development (1.0) |
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DV445 Cutting Edge Issues in Development Thinking & Practice (0.0) |
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Papers 3 & 4 |
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Courses to the value of 2 unit(s) from the following: AN451 Politics and Power: Debates in Anthropology (0.5) |
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AN456 Economic Anthropology (0.5) |
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AN457 Anthropology of Economy (2): Transformation and Globalisation (0.5) (withdrawn 2025/26) |
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DV407 Poverty (0.5) |
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DV411 Population, Development and Environment: an Analytical Approach (0.5) |
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DV413 Environmental Problems and Development Interventions (0.5) |
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DV415 Global Environmental Governance (0.5) |
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DV418 African Development (0.5) |
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DV420 Complex Emergencies (0.5) |
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DV421 Critical Perspectives on Global Health and Development (0.5) |
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DV423 Global Political Economy of Development (0.5) # (suspended 2025/26) |
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DV424 International Institutions and Late Development (0.5) |
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DV428 Managing Humanitarianism (0.5) |
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DV432 China in Developmental Perspective (0.5) # (suspended 2025/26) |
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DV433 The Informal Economy and Inclusive Development (0.5) |
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DV434 Human Security (0.5) (suspended 2025/26) |
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DV435 African Political Economy (0.5) |
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DV444 Global Health Challenges: Epidemics, Disease, and Public Health Response (0.5) |
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DV453 Health and International Development Consultancy Project (0.5) |
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DV454 Gender, labour markets and social change in the Global South: theory, evidence, public action (0.5) (suspended 2025/26) |
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DV455 Advocacy, Campaigning and Grassroots Activism (0.5) |
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DV456 Population, Health and Development: Evidence and Projections (0.5) # (suspended 2025/26) |
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DV457 Sexual and Reproductive Health Programmes: Design, Implementation and Evaluation (0.5) |
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DV458 Key issues in Global Health and Development (0.5) |
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DV460 Bayesian Reasoning for Qualitative Social Science: A modern approach to case study inference (0.5) # (withdrawn 2025/26) |
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DV462 Forced Migration and Refugees (0.5) |
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DV464 Democracy and Development (0.5) |
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DV465 Labour, Social Services and Development (0.5) |
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DV472 Covid-19 pandemic: health, socio-economic and political implications for development (Special Topics in International Development) (0.5) (suspended 2025/26) |
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DV473 Health, conflict and crises (0.5) |
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DV477 Rural Livelihoods, Agrarian Transformation and Development (0.5) # |
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DV480 Development Transformations: The Political Economy of Colonialism, Revolution and Reform (0.5) # |
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DV483 Information Communication Technologies and Socio-economic Development (0.5) (suspended 2025/26) |
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DV490 Economic Development Policy I: Applied Policy Analysis for Macroeconomic Development (0.5) # |
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DV491 Economic Development Policy II: Microeconomic Analysis (0.5) # |
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DV492 Economic Development Policy III: Government Policy Analysis (0.5) # |
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DV494 Foundations of Applied Econometrics for Economic Development Policy (0.5) |
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EH446 Economic Development of East and Southeast Asia (1.0) # (withdrawn 2025/26) |
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GI407 Globalisation, Gender and Development (1.0) (withdrawn 2025/26) |
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GI409 Conceptual Foundations in Gender, Development and Globalization (0.5) # |
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GI418 Feminist Economics and Policy (0.5) # (suspended 2025/26) |
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GI420 Feminist Perspectives on Transnational Development (0.5) |
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GV441 States and Markets (0.5) (withdrawn 2025/26) |
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GV483 Public Management Theory and Doctrine (0.5) |
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GV4C9 Globalization and Democratization in Southeast Asia (0.5) (suspended 2025/26) |
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GV4K1 Participatory Governance (0.5) |
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GV4K7 Conflict and Cooperation: Key Debates (0.5) |
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GV4L3 Data Science Applications in Politics and Policy (0.5) # |
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GV4L7 Political Participation and Representation in Latin America (0.5) (suspended 2025/26) |
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GY431 Cities, People and Poverty in the South (0.5) # (suspended 2025/26) |
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GY432 Urban Ethnography (0.5) |
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GY438 Urban Asia: Cities and Social Change (0.5) |
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GY459 Global Urbanism (0.5) |
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GY465 Concepts in Environmental Regulation (0.5) |
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GY474 Politics of Environment and Development (0.5) |
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GY475 Governing Sustainable Enterprise (0.5) |
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GY480 Remaking China: Geographical aspects of Development and Disparity (0.5) (suspended 2025/26) |
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IR488 International Politics of Southeast Asia (0.5) |
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LL4AW Foundations of International Human Rights Law (0.5) |
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LL4AX Selected Topics in International Human Rights Law (0.5) |
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LL4C2 World Poverty and Human Rights (0.5) |
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MG460 Emergencies Management: Humanitarian Intervention and Digital Innovation (0.5) (suspended 2025/26) |
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MY425 Case Studies and Comparative Methods for Qualitative Research (0.5) # (suspended 2025/26) |
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PP449 Comparative Political Economy and Development (0.5) (suspended 2025/26) |
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SP415 Urbanisation and Social Policy in the Global Souths (0.5) # |
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Footnotes
# means there may be prerequisites for this course. Please view the course guide for more information.
A: Papers 3 & 4, EC428: Entry to this course may be restricted.
B: Papers 3 & 4, GY447: Entry to this course may be restricted.
C: Papers 3 & 4, IR488: Entry to this course may be restricted.
D: Papers 3 & 4, SP415: Course designed for those with a minimum of one year's practical working experience in developing countries; seminars draw extensively on students' own experience. Entry may be restricted. Interested students should attend lectures and consult the lecturers.
E: Papers 3 & 4: The International Relations (IR) Department permits non-IR students to take only one option from those prefixed "IR". Access is not guaranteed for any option.
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