International Development and Social Justice

What you will learn

This course introduces you to key approaches to international development and social justice and equips you with the specific skills required to conduct development research.

It offers you an understanding of themes such as: childhood and international development; cities in the Global South; climate justice; development as colonialism; diasporas; gender, sexualities and development; global health; the political economy of aid; racism and international development, and social movements and revolutions.

You will choose from option modules, which allow you to develop specific expertise in some of these areas. You will also have the opportunity to complete extended research on a topic of your choice, supported by a dissertation supervisor with expertise in the field, helping you to develop your research skills.

How you will learn

This course is primarily taught through a combination of lectures, which are also recorded, and seminars involving small group discussions and other collaborative activities.

Outside of class, you will engage with online readings and multi-media content. For your dissertation, you will receive one-to-one supervision. This course is available to study full- or part-time, with classes taking place in the evening.

We offer this course as a Master’s, Postgraduate Diploma and Postgraduate Certificate. For the Diploma and Certificate you study fewer modules and do not complete a dissertation.

Highlights

Careers and employability

On successfully graduating from this course, you will have gained an array of important transferable skills, including in:

Graduates can pursue career paths in development agencies and other international organisations, policy research, journalism, social movements or the non-governmental sector. Possible professions include:

Some of our graduates from this course have gone on to be employed at the following organisations: