MA in International Development (MAID)

Students are required to take six core modules for the MA (135 credits):

• GEO6801 Ideas and Practice in International Development (15 credits)
  Provides you with a grounding in key debates and concerns in international development, covering development theory, policy and practice.
   
• GEO6802 Research Design and Methods in Development (15 credits)
  Provides you with a set of research skills tailored towards working in the development field and undertaking fieldwork within the global south.
   
• GEO6803 Professional Skills for Development (15 credits)
  Offers you the opportunity to develop your professional skills, including disaster management and tender writing skills as well as training in writing, publishing, web-design, and language skills.
   
• GEO6804 Development Fieldclass (15 credits)
  A ten-day fieldtrip to a research site in the global south during which you experience first-hand the process of designing and conducting development research.
   
• GEO6805 Dissertation with placement (60 credits)
  Provides you with a placement at an international development host, based anywhere in the world, through which you experience the everyday life of development work while completing your own research project.
   
• TRP611 Spatial Planning and Development in the South (15 credits)
  Uses a scenario-based approach to address the challenges of sustainability, inclusions and growth facing spatial planning in the global south.

Students then choose three of the following 15-credit option modules:

• GEO6808 HIV/AIDS
  Explores the background to the HIV/AIDS pandemic and the complicated academic and policy responses to this disease from the micro- to the macro-scale.
   
• GRO6806 Key Issues in Environment and Development
  Introduces a series of key debates relating to the role of sustainability and environmental justice in meeting the demands of international development.
   
• GEO6809 Living with Climate Change
  Offers a detailed understanding of our understandings of climate change and the practices adopted at different scales in order to respond to and mitigate the impacts of climate change.
   
• HAR618 International Health: Systems and Policy
  Provides an inquiry-based approach to explore how health systems and policies are created and implemented in efforts to meet the Millennium Development Goals.
   
• HAR659 Gender Relations, Health and Health Care
  Introduces the ways in which gender remains a key concern to realising good health.
   
• HAR686 Disaster and Emergency Management
  Offers an introduction to policies and practices of emergency management drawing on real-life experiences and disaster management policies.
   
• SCS657 Practice and Evaluation in International Development
  Explores how social policy around the world is central to development policy and practice on different scales.
   
• TRP6013 Cities of Diversity
  Introduces the complexities of diversity in urban spatial and social planning as a core concern to sustainability and integration.
   
• TRP6014 Cities of the South: Planning for Informality
  Provides a critical exploration of the development of informal settlements and the key challenges these settlements pose to urban spatial and social planning.
   
• TRP6018 Qualitative Research Methods
  Offers advanced qualitative research methods training orientated towards working within the development field.
   
• TRP6019 Governance and Participation in the Global South
  Introduces key debates regarding issues of governance and community participation in spatial planning and urban practice.
   
• MLT6015 Enhanced Languages II
  Provides you with the opportunity to develop language skills appropriate to your proficiency in a foreign language.

Courses are delivered through a mixture of lectures, seminars and independent study, emphasising the latest research and drawing explicitly from the individual expertise of each academic. Assessment methods include essays, reflexive writing, research reports, policy briefs and oral presentations.