MA International Relations and Development Studies

Course Summary

• Type: MA
• Location: Norwich
• Duration: 1 Year
• Deadline: 31-07-2013

Course Description

The MA International Relations and Development Studies degree offers cutting-edge insights and skills on the linkages between international relations and development. As this is a cross-disciplinary course, run jointly by the School of International Development and the School of Political, Social and International Studies, students on this course benefit from the opportunity to take modules in two renowned social-science schools.

The topics dealt with in this course are crucial for understanding a large range of issues pertaining to the development of the state, democracy, and the relationship between the United Nations, international politics and the countries of the global south. This makes this degree a stepping stone to careers in diplomacy, politics, government, and the multiple other strands of international development that incorporate issues of politics.

This Masters opens up to students a unique set of module options taken from both political science and development studies. These options allow students to follow their own interests by for instance angling the course towards a political science perspective, in the direction of political economy, globalisation, the international debt crisis, conflict, security or gender studies, political transformation and the environment or along a number of the many other paths enabled by the rich variety of options available in the two Schools that jointly offer this degree.