Environment and Development

The Environment and Development MA/MSc course is designed to provide you with an advanced theoretical understanding of the relationship between development problems and environmental issues, grounded in differing regional contexts across the global South.

The course provides a framework for appraising the understanding of environmental issues and development problems in Asia, Africa and Latin America and encourages you to look beyond conventional North-originated perspectives and assumptions through regional case studies.

Key benefits:

• Academic staff have first-hand experience of environmental and developmental issues in the world's underdeveloped countries.
• Opportunities to carry out original fieldwork either in the UK or overseas for your dissertation.
• Excellent tutorial support, extensive course specific interactive teaching and regular classroom discussions.

Candidates who do not achieve a 2:1 but have professional or voluntary experience will also be considered.

MA/MSc

The Environment & Development MA, MSc course offers a demanding and stimulating programme of study, with an emphasis on developing your analytical and research skills and on breaking free of conventional North-originated paradigms on development. You will study modules covering Livelihoods and Development and Environmentalism in the 'South', as well as choosing from a wide range of optional modules. If you choose to follow the MSc research pathway, you will also study Advanced Quantitative & Spatial Methods in Human Geography.

The course is made up of optional and required modules. You must take the minimum of 180 credits to complete the course, 60 of which will come from a dissertation of around 12,000 words. If you are studying full-time, you will complete the course in one year, from September to September. If you are studying part-time, your course will take two years to complete. You will take the combination of required and optional modules over this period of time, with the dissertation in your second year.

Fee:

• Full time overseas fees:

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