MSc Development Studies

Comments about MSc Development Studies - At the institution - Glasgow - Scotland

• Entry requirements
  This interdisciplinary programme is designed for those intending to pursue careers in teaching and/or research in the general field of development or the specialist areas offered as optional subjects; government officials wishing to expand their knowledge of various aspects of development; and those working in this field in international agencies or in non-governmental organisations concerned with development.
• Academic title
  MSc Development Studies
• Course description
  Content
  
  You take two core courses
  
      * Development policy
      * Growth and development.
  
  Plus four options and a dissertation. The list of options includes:
  
      * Project planning, appraisal and implementation
      * Economic appraisal of development projects
      * Environmental economics
      * Policies for sustainability and development
      * Theory and principles of sustainability
      * Politics of gender in development
      * China in the international economy
      * Aid and development
      * Economics of inequality and deprivation
      * Changing state and society in Central Europe
      * Social transformation in Eastern Europe
      * Other MSc options subject to approval.