Course summary

This is a Connected Degree Portsmouth is the only University in the UK with the flexibility to choose when to do an optional paid placement or self-employed year. Either take a placement in your third year, or finish your studies first and complete a placement in your fourth year. You can decide if and when to take a placement after you've started your course. Overview On this BA (Hons) International Development degree course, you’ll learn to address some of the major global challenges of our time such as poverty and hunger, environmental sustainability, universal education and health care. You'll expand your understanding of the role and purpose of cooperation between governments, international organisations and non-governmental organisation (NGOs) in international development, using this to gain insights into strategies to improve people's lives on a global scale. This course is ideal for a national and international career in roles such as community development, advocacy, policy development and public affairs. You'll have the confidence and ability to take what you learn on this course to make a positive impact in areas such as gender equality and women’s empowerment, democracy, human rights and conflict and security. Course highlights

• Your learning won’t be limited to the classroom – you'll have opportunities to work with development organisations in the UK or overseas

• Gain on-the-ground experience of community development and protected area management on an optional field trip to Uganda

• Study multiple disciplines to find solutions that could include changing policy at a national level

• Be taught by staff who are committed to their research in the field, such as Professor Tamsin Bradley whose research is informing schemes to help support women across South Asia in their search for equality

• Get experience during your studies or as part of an optional work placement year with an international non-governmental organisation (NGO)

• Put your expertise into practice in Model United Nations events, in collaboration with fellow students from International Development and International Relations

• Have the chance to learn a new language

• international community development

• civil service

• fundraising, campaigning and advocacy

• policy development

• social enterprise

• corporate social responsibility

• public affairs

• project management

• programme management, support and evaluation roles for international agencies and non-governmental organisations

• fundraising development coordinator

• human rights advocacy

• media and digital content lead

• social researcher

• community development practitioner

• sustainable sourcing specialist for multinational corporations

• Save the Children

• Street Doctors

• CAFOD

• the Foreign and Commonwealth Office

• the Department or International Development

• British Chamber of Commerce

• Universal Music Group