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Master in Development and International Cooperation (MDCI)
Start: September
Language: Portugese
Centro de Estudos sobre Africa e do Desenvolvimento (CeSA)
The main objective of the degree in Development and International Cooperation is to provide Masters graduates with additional skills to those acquired during the 1 st Cycle, which will help them find employment as leaders, managers, and senior technicians of public and private organisations and international organisations. The aim is to strengthen the understanding of economic, political, and sociological theories of development and social change, as well as international cooperation for development; and also to learn research methodologies in this area, as well as the complexity of the empirical reality of the South, and to ensure that Masters students are equipped with the skills needed to prepare technical dossiers to support policy decision-making in the area of economic and social development policy, as well as international cooperation.Start: September
Language: Portugese
DegreeCourse TypeLanguage
- English
Centro de Estudos sobre Africa e do Desenvolvimento (CeSA), Portugal
Master of Advanced Studies in Development and Cooperation (MAS ETH DC)
Autumn Semester:
During the first semester, students acquire theoretical and empirical knowledge about the most pressing global and local challenges. The courses combine lectures and workshops and allow for extensive discussion between classmates and lecturers. The courses are bilingual (in German and English), multidisciplinary, and policy oriented.
In the core courses, students obtain a solid understanding of important historical, socioeconomic, political, and environmental development processes.
On-the-job-training:
The first study semester is followed by a 8-10 month on-the-job training with a multilateral, bi-lateral, or non-governmental organization. This job assignment is designed to immerse students in a complex and intercultural working environment.
Spring Semester
In the final semester, the students deepen their knowledge of specific methods and policies to address global and local development challenges. Students can select from numerous courses on methods to identify innovative solutions or on policy implementation strategies that improve the livelihoods of the poor. They link cutting-edge research with policies and practice. MAS students are given the option of taking the block course on either a full-time (during the spring semester) or part-time basis, but must complete six courses within two years.
ETH Zürich, Centre for Development and Cooperation (NADEL)
The Master of Advanced Studies (MAS) in Development and Cooperation offers students an inspiring environment in which they can acquire an understanding of local and global development challenges as well as the tools and methods to find innovative solutions to address them. The program combines studies at ETH with experiential learning at an international organization. This provides students with both the theoretical background and practical experience necessary to successfully pursue a career devoted to more inclusive and sustainable societies.Autumn Semester:
During the first semester, students acquire theoretical and empirical knowledge about the most pressing global and local challenges. The courses combine lectures and workshops and allow for extensive discussion between classmates and lecturers. The courses are bilingual (in German and English), multidisciplinary, and policy oriented.
In the core courses, students obtain a solid understanding of important historical, socioeconomic, political, and environmental development processes.
On-the-job-training:
The first study semester is followed by a 8-10 month on-the-job training with a multilateral, bi-lateral, or non-governmental organization. This job assignment is designed to immerse students in a complex and intercultural working environment.
Spring Semester
In the final semester, the students deepen their knowledge of specific methods and policies to address global and local development challenges. Students can select from numerous courses on methods to identify innovative solutions or on policy implementation strategies that improve the livelihoods of the poor. They link cutting-edge research with policies and practice. MAS students are given the option of taking the block course on either a full-time (during the spring semester) or part-time basis, but must complete six courses within two years.
ETH Zürich, Centre for Development and Cooperation (NADEL), Switzerland
Communication for Development (One-Year Part Time)
This is a half-time study programme, combining courses on culture, communication and development and integrating them with practical field work. It explores the use of communication – both as a tool and as a way of expressing processes of social change – within the contexts of globalisation.
The form of study is unique, comprising a combination of live seminars and web-based communication. The seminars (2 days) are compulsory and consist of lectures, discussions and workshops. Overseas students who cannot physically attend can follow the seminars online. In between the seminars, the students carry out assignments individually and in groups. In the first year, students receive a comprehensive overview of globalisation and a systematic inventory of the entire field. In the second year, students follow specialised courses which end with an independent project concentrated on one of the field's sub-areas.
Future employment opportunities include work for professional media companies, international organisations (governmental and non-governmental) and PhD studies.
What is Communication for Development?
Communication for Development (ComDev) is an interdisciplinary field combining studies on culture, media, communication and development. ComDev explores communication within contexts of articulating global and local processes of social change.
The ComDev field is part science, part craft and part art, and its multidisciplinary academic foundations draw on aspects of development studies, anthropology, sociology and cultural studies. [...]
School of Arts and Communication, University Malmö
This programme gives you the skills to work with media and communication in international developmental cooperation as well as in other areas.This is a half-time study programme, combining courses on culture, communication and development and integrating them with practical field work. It explores the use of communication – both as a tool and as a way of expressing processes of social change – within the contexts of globalisation.
The form of study is unique, comprising a combination of live seminars and web-based communication. The seminars (2 days) are compulsory and consist of lectures, discussions and workshops. Overseas students who cannot physically attend can follow the seminars online. In between the seminars, the students carry out assignments individually and in groups. In the first year, students receive a comprehensive overview of globalisation and a systematic inventory of the entire field. In the second year, students follow specialised courses which end with an independent project concentrated on one of the field's sub-areas.
Future employment opportunities include work for professional media companies, international organisations (governmental and non-governmental) and PhD studies.
What is Communication for Development?
Communication for Development (ComDev) is an interdisciplinary field combining studies on culture, media, communication and development. ComDev explores communication within contexts of articulating global and local processes of social change.
The ComDev field is part science, part craft and part art, and its multidisciplinary academic foundations draw on aspects of development studies, anthropology, sociology and cultural studies. [...]
DegreeCourse TypeLanguage
- English
Máster Universitario Oficial en Desarrollo Y Cooperación Internacional [”University Master’s Diploma in International Co-Operation and Development”]
Está orientado principalmente a la formación académica y profesional del alumnado en el campo de la cooperación internacional para el desarrollo, teniendo como referencias fundamentales la equidad y la lucha contra la pobreza, el desarrollo humano y la sostenibilidad. Desde esta perspectiva, se trata de proporcionar una formación profesional de calidad y multidisciplinar a las alumnas y alumnos, de cara a una mejor inserción personal y laboral en el campo de la cooperación para el desarrollo.
Para ello, el máster se centra en el estudio de la compleja variedad de fenómenos que inciden en los procesos de desarrollo y condicionan la cooperación internacional contando para ello con un profesorado de amplia experiencia y trayectoria en los distintos temas objeto de estudio, proveniente tanto de la universidad como de instituciones y organizaciones de cooperación. El programa de estudios se completa además con unas prácticas obligatorias, en proyectos de cooperación al desarrollo llevados a cabo en diferentes países.
Instituto de Estudios sobre Desarrollo y Cooperación Internacional: Universidad del Pais Vasco (HEGOA)
Este máster en Desarrollo y Cooperación Internacional forma parte de la oferta de Títulos Oficiales de la Universidad del País Vasco/Euskal Herriko Unibertsitatea, y está impulsado por el Instituto HEGOA y los Departamentos de Economía Aplicada I y Economía Aplicada IV.Está orientado principalmente a la formación académica y profesional del alumnado en el campo de la cooperación internacional para el desarrollo, teniendo como referencias fundamentales la equidad y la lucha contra la pobreza, el desarrollo humano y la sostenibilidad. Desde esta perspectiva, se trata de proporcionar una formación profesional de calidad y multidisciplinar a las alumnas y alumnos, de cara a una mejor inserción personal y laboral en el campo de la cooperación para el desarrollo.
Para ello, el máster se centra en el estudio de la compleja variedad de fenómenos que inciden en los procesos de desarrollo y condicionan la cooperación internacional contando para ello con un profesorado de amplia experiencia y trayectoria en los distintos temas objeto de estudio, proveniente tanto de la universidad como de instituciones y organizaciones de cooperación. El programa de estudios se completa además con unas prácticas obligatorias, en proyectos de cooperación al desarrollo llevados a cabo en diferentes países.
DegreeLanguage
- Spanish
Intercultural Communication and International Development MA
Course description
This interdisciplinary course is designed to produce international development practitioners with advanced intercultural communication skills. You'll develop a critical understanding of the role culture and communication play in international development. You’ll also learn the theory and practice of intercultural communication and international development, and how to apply these to real-life situations.
You'll develop essential skills in ethnographic research and form systematic approaches to understanding others’ perspectives. This course will help you develop an intercultural lens on the world’s most pressing problems. The course includes a ten-day field class overseas that provides hands-on experience of research.
- In a global society based on fairness, everyone’s voice should be heard. The world needs developers who can communicate across cultural boundaries and bring people together. As a graduate of this course, you’ll be well placed to make a difference.
- This course is highly flexible – through optional modules you’ll have a variety of ways to develop your language skills and interests.
Sheffield Institute for International Development (SIID)
The world needs developers who can communicate across cultural boundaries and bring people together. You'll learn best practice for effective communication at work across a wide range of cultural groups, and develop your communication skills in more than one language.Course description
This interdisciplinary course is designed to produce international development practitioners with advanced intercultural communication skills. You'll develop a critical understanding of the role culture and communication play in international development. You’ll also learn the theory and practice of intercultural communication and international development, and how to apply these to real-life situations.
You'll develop essential skills in ethnographic research and form systematic approaches to understanding others’ perspectives. This course will help you develop an intercultural lens on the world’s most pressing problems. The course includes a ten-day field class overseas that provides hands-on experience of research.
- In a global society based on fairness, everyone’s voice should be heard. The world needs developers who can communicate across cultural boundaries and bring people together. As a graduate of this course, you’ll be well placed to make a difference.
- This course is highly flexible – through optional modules you’ll have a variety of ways to develop your language skills and interests.
DegreeLanguage
- English
Sheffield Institute for International Development (SIID), United Kingdom
MA Globalisation, Business and Sustainable Development
- Is globalisation leading to increasing international inequality and poverty, or does the expansion of international trade in goods and services provide new opportunities for developing countries?
- How can we make sense of emergent trends such as fair trade, social entrepreneurship, corporate social responsibility and sustainable consumption?
- Does globalisation call for a radical overhaul of existing international, national and local institutions?
- And why is it so difficult to solve global environmental problems such as climate change?
Gain comprehensive knowledge in the field of globalisation, business and sustainable development and equip yourself with the necessary skills to pursue a career in this fascinating area. You’ll integrate different disciplinary perspectives to analyse the economic, political, social and environmental dimensions of globalisation. You’ll consider the resistance to globalisation and how this has played out in Africa, Asia and Latin America.
This course adopts a unique interdisciplinary approach, making UEA the perfect place to help you gain that all-important competitive edge.
School of International Development, University of East Anglia (DEV)
The process of globalisation is central to an understanding of the contemporary world. The nature of this process and its implications for international development are hotly debated and you’ll tackle key questions including:- Is globalisation leading to increasing international inequality and poverty, or does the expansion of international trade in goods and services provide new opportunities for developing countries?
- How can we make sense of emergent trends such as fair trade, social entrepreneurship, corporate social responsibility and sustainable consumption?
- Does globalisation call for a radical overhaul of existing international, national and local institutions?
- And why is it so difficult to solve global environmental problems such as climate change?
Gain comprehensive knowledge in the field of globalisation, business and sustainable development and equip yourself with the necessary skills to pursue a career in this fascinating area. You’ll integrate different disciplinary perspectives to analyse the economic, political, social and environmental dimensions of globalisation. You’ll consider the resistance to globalisation and how this has played out in Africa, Asia and Latin America.
This course adopts a unique interdisciplinary approach, making UEA the perfect place to help you gain that all-important competitive edge.
DegreeCourse TypeLanguage
- English
School of International Development, University of East Anglia (DEV), United Kingdom
International Development (Poverty, Inequality and Development) by Distance Learning MSc/PGDip
The broad purpose of this programme is to give those working in the area of poverty reduction and development in developing and transitional countries, or those wishing to work in such areas, a firmer grounding in understanding poverty and inequality, promoting poverty reduction and analysing the performance of major poverty reducing programmes and policies.
The core module aims to familiarise students with key concepts (eg development and poverty) and theories (eg modernisation, dependency, neo-liberalism and the ‘crisis’ in development theory) and with the changing roles of international development organisations and states in promoting international development (eg through aid, trade and fiscal, monetary and social policies).
The emphasis throughout will be on encouraging students to reflect critically on what has worked well or not and why. Students will select three optional modules (at 20 credits each) based on their individual interests and career aspirations.
Start date: September
International Development Department, University of Birmingham (IDD)
Study from anywhere in the world with practitioners in government, civil society and the private sector, as well as with people new to development.The broad purpose of this programme is to give those working in the area of poverty reduction and development in developing and transitional countries, or those wishing to work in such areas, a firmer grounding in understanding poverty and inequality, promoting poverty reduction and analysing the performance of major poverty reducing programmes and policies.
The core module aims to familiarise students with key concepts (eg development and poverty) and theories (eg modernisation, dependency, neo-liberalism and the ‘crisis’ in development theory) and with the changing roles of international development organisations and states in promoting international development (eg through aid, trade and fiscal, monetary and social policies).
The emphasis throughout will be on encouraging students to reflect critically on what has worked well or not and why. Students will select three optional modules (at 20 credits each) based on their individual interests and career aspirations.
Start date: September
DegreeCourse TypeLanguage
- English
International Development Department, University of Birmingham (IDD), United Kingdom
Máster Globalización, Desarrollo y Cooperación
En este contexto de desigualdad económica, social y territorial, el desarrollo y la cooperación, aunque en continua transformación para adaptarse a los nuevos tiempos, siguen siendo dos polos de referencia en cualquier discurso estratégico de futuro, si es que ese futuro ha de ser posible para toda la humanidad.
Este título propio de la Universidad de Barcelona (60 créditos ECTS), organizado conjuntamente con la Fundación Món-3 y la Fundación Solidaritat UB, pretende seguir formando, como lo ha hecho desde 1989, especialistas que puedan intervenir directamente en la construcción de unas estrategias de desarrollo y unas relaciones de cooperación que apuntalen un mundo posible de solidaridad y bienestar, respetuoso con la naturaleza, esperanzador para las generaciones futuras y necesariamente distinto al actual.
Món-3, Facultad de Ciencias Económicas (Món-3)
El mundo del siglo XXI ofrece unas terribles asimetrías entre riqueza y pobreza, seguridad y conflictos, progreso y deterioro medioambiental, etc. La globalización económica ha afectado irremisiblemente a los otros ámbitos de la existencia social, configurando definitivamente un sistema económico mundial en el que las brechas entre sus centros y sus periferias no parecen sino reproducirse eternamente.En este contexto de desigualdad económica, social y territorial, el desarrollo y la cooperación, aunque en continua transformación para adaptarse a los nuevos tiempos, siguen siendo dos polos de referencia en cualquier discurso estratégico de futuro, si es que ese futuro ha de ser posible para toda la humanidad.
Este título propio de la Universidad de Barcelona (60 créditos ECTS), organizado conjuntamente con la Fundación Món-3 y la Fundación Solidaritat UB, pretende seguir formando, como lo ha hecho desde 1989, especialistas que puedan intervenir directamente en la construcción de unas estrategias de desarrollo y unas relaciones de cooperación que apuntalen un mundo posible de solidaridad y bienestar, respetuoso con la naturaleza, esperanzador para las generaciones futuras y necesariamente distinto al actual.
DegreeLanguage
- Spanish
Global Development Management
What are the challenges of development? How do we overcome them? This postgraduate qualification addresses the complexities of development and will help you build the skills needed to manage these challenges. This degree builds on the global agenda for sustainable development and assumes that development management is a political and ethical process. It addresses how to achieve goals in contexts affected by conflicts of interests, values, and agendas. You’ll learn skills related to strategic thinking, research, advocacy, and policymaking that are necessary for a career as a development manager.
What are the learning outcomes?
By the end of your studies, you have studied the:
- different conceptualisations of development and its management in theory and practice
- key concepts and theories that reveal development management as a process that is personal, political and professional
- tools, methods and frameworks for investigation and analysis aimed at informing development policy and practice.
Programs on this degree
- Global Development in Practice: Bringing about change
- Global Development in Practice: Discovering development management
- Global Development in Practice: Doing development
- Global Development in Practice: Understanding development contexts
Development Policy and Practice, the Open University (DPP)
Gain a framework for analysing development management practiceWhat are the challenges of development? How do we overcome them? This postgraduate qualification addresses the complexities of development and will help you build the skills needed to manage these challenges. This degree builds on the global agenda for sustainable development and assumes that development management is a political and ethical process. It addresses how to achieve goals in contexts affected by conflicts of interests, values, and agendas. You’ll learn skills related to strategic thinking, research, advocacy, and policymaking that are necessary for a career as a development manager.
What are the learning outcomes?
By the end of your studies, you have studied the:
- different conceptualisations of development and its management in theory and practice
- key concepts and theories that reveal development management as a process that is personal, political and professional
- tools, methods and frameworks for investigation and analysis aimed at informing development policy and practice.
Programs on this degree
- Global Development in Practice: Bringing about change
- Global Development in Practice: Discovering development management
- Global Development in Practice: Doing development
- Global Development in Practice: Understanding development contexts
DegreeCourse TypeLanguage
- English
Development Policy and Practice, the Open University (DPP), United Kingdom
International Development (Masters in Public Health) MPH
This course combines expertise from development studies and public health to help you engage with the challenges of health and international development in today’s complex world. The course is jointly run by the Department of Geography and the School of Health and Related Research (ScHARR). You'll develop a critical understanding of international development theories and debates in the context of public health research and practice. There’s an emphasis on applying your learning to complex challenges in the real world. You'll develop professional skills, carry out hands-on research during an overseas field class, and you'll complete a work placement-based dissertation that links academic theory with public health and international development practice. Our teaching involves industry and sector specialists, which means you can make connections and contacts with a global network of expertise beyond the University. On this course you'll develop the practical skills you need to work within development and health organisations around the world.
Sheffield Institute for International Development (SIID)
Explore the intersections of international development and healthcare policy and practice in the Global South, while developing the skills to work in health and development organisations around the world.This course combines expertise from development studies and public health to help you engage with the challenges of health and international development in today’s complex world. The course is jointly run by the Department of Geography and the School of Health and Related Research (ScHARR). You'll develop a critical understanding of international development theories and debates in the context of public health research and practice. There’s an emphasis on applying your learning to complex challenges in the real world. You'll develop professional skills, carry out hands-on research during an overseas field class, and you'll complete a work placement-based dissertation that links academic theory with public health and international development practice. Our teaching involves industry and sector specialists, which means you can make connections and contacts with a global network of expertise beyond the University. On this course you'll develop the practical skills you need to work within development and health organisations around the world.
Sheffield Institute for International Development (SIID), United Kingdom
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