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Development Studies at SOAS University of London - UCAS

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2023 - 2024
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Course summary

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.

Modules

Core modules: political economy of development; theory, policy and practice of development; dissertation in development studies. Optional modules include: agrarian development, food policy and rural poverty ; aid and development; borders and development; civil society, social movements and the development process ; natural resources, development and change: putting critical anaylsis into practice; development practice ; East Asia and globalisation; environment, governance and development; extractive industries, energy, biofuels 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; 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.

Entry requirements

We will consider all applications with 2:ii (or international equivalent) or higher. In addition to degree classification we take into account other elements of the application including supporting statement and references.

Fees and funding

Tuition fees

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https://www.soas.ac.uk/study/fees-funding-and-finance/tuition-fees/postgraduate-fees
Development Studies at SOAS University of London - UCAS