Course summary
Develop your knowledge, skills and attitudes in the rapidly changing field of development and emergencies with our Development and Emergency Practice course. Explore the relationship between emergencies and development, with a core emphasis on practice. This course has an international reputation for excellence and is run by the Centre for Development and Emergency Practice. The course offers three sub-specialisations:
- Human rights, emergencies and development
- Disasters, risks, shelter and development
- Conflict and Humanitarian Action.
- Refugee experience, conflict transformation, humanitarianism and role of human rights
- Global civil society, vulnerabilities caused by climate change and modern development
- Design in development and emergency contexts.
- NGOs
- Humanitarian work
- Or international development
Assessment method
Your learning will be grounded in theory, case studies and field based experience. You will develop intellectual knowledge and cultivate academic skills including:
- synthesis
- analysis
- interpretation
- understanding
- judgement.
- the setting in which you work - for example poverty, conflict, power and vulnerability
- the approaches you adopt - for example community mobilisation, aid and human rights advocacy
- yourself - the personal motivations that drive and shape your vocation, personality and temperament
Entry requirements
The programme is open to candidates who fulfil at least one of the following conditions: - hold a good honours degree in a related discipline such as anthropology, sociology, economics, geography, psychology and other social sciences, architecture, Law, public health, public administration. Other fields are also welcomed, for example, medicine, IT, communications, information systems etc. - hold a relevant recognised diploma or professional qualification (eg in architecture, planning, environmental psychology, public health, public administration) - are in their final year of studying a degree in any relevant discipline - have substantial and proven field experience.
English language requirements
IELTS 6.5 overall with at least 6.0 in each component
If English is not your first language then, please see here for our requirements and accepted alternative English language qualifications
Fees and funding
Tuition fees
| England | £5100* | Year 1 |
| Northern Ireland | £5100* | Year 1 |
| Scotland | £5100* | Year 1 |
| Wales | £5100* | Year 1 |
*This is a provisional fee and subject to change.
Additional fee information
Please note tuition fees may increase in subsequent years both for new and continuing students.
Provider information
Oxford Brookes University
Gipsy Lane
Headington
Oxford
OX3 0BP