The Master of Development Studies provides specialist training in the fields of development and environment, development and gender, development and urbanisation, and health policy and development. Refine your transferable skills in critical analysis, communication, cross-cultural understanding, research methods, project design, project management and teamwork.
At professional practice seminars, research workshops, careers events, and alumni get-togethers, you can rub shoulders with top-notch policy makers and experts in the international development sector. While in your studies you can engage with debt and poverty, microfinance, culture and human rights, migration and transnationalism, food and environmental security, civil society organisations, and gender relations.
Open Curriculum
- CBPAR076: Community Based Participatory Action Research
- MIS1075: Management Information System
- DS 501: Development Studies: Theories and Approaches
- DS 502: Principles of Microeconomics
- DS 503: Introduction to Sociology and Anthropology
- DS 504: Politics and Public Administration
- DS 505: Principles of Macroeconomics
- DS 506: Qualitative Research Methods
- DS 507: Statistics and Econometrics
- DS 508: Development Economics
- DS 509: Project Planning and Evaluation
- DS 510: Poverty: Concepts, Strategies and Programming
- DS 511: Disaster, Vulnerability and Sustainable Development
- DS 512: Gender and Development
Major (Development Economics)
DS 531: International Trade and Globalization
DS 532: Public Finance
DS 533: Economics of Institutions and Transition
Major (Public Policy Analysis)
DS 541: Polity, Policy Process and Institutions
DS 542: Policy Analysis and Evaluation
DS 543: Public Policy Making
Major (Social Development)
DS 551: Social Development: Theories and Approaches
DS 552: Social Inclusion
DS 553: International Migration and Development
Major (Natural Resource Management)
DS 561: Environmental Economics
DS 562: Sustainable Development: Process and Practice
DS 563: Natural Resource Management