入学要求 Requirement：
学术要求： Good 2:1 in social science, or a degree in another field with relevant work experience.
英语要求：IELTS 7.0 or internet-based TOEFL 107.
学费 Tuition Fee：2012/2013 £16,512
课程特征 Course Features：
This programme is centered on a core course that employs a comparative political economy approach to examine the institutional roots of development and non-development.
课程内容 Course Content ：
Compulsory courses
•Development Management
•Dissertation
Options
(* half unit)
Choose courses to the value of two full units from the following list in consultation with your supervisor.
Accounting
•Accounting in the Global Economy*
•Management Accounting, Decisions and Control*
•Financial Accounting: Reporting and Disclosure*
Development Studies
•Poverty*
•Economic Development Policy
•Population and Development: an Analytical Approach*
•Environmental Problems and Development Interventions*
•Global Environmental Governance*
•African Development*
•Complex Emergencies*
•Emerging Health Threats and Development*
•Global Political Economy of Development I*
•Global Political Economy of Development II*
•Managing Globalisation*
•Public Management of Development*
•Managing Humanitarianism*
•Global Civil Society*
•Nationalism, Democracy and Development in Contemporary India*
•IT and Socio-economic Development
•Aspects of IT and Socio-economic Development*
•China in Developmental Perspective*
•Human Security*
•The Informal Economy and Non-State Governance*
Economics
•The Economics of Regional and Urban Planning*
Employment Relations and Organisational Behaviour
•Organisational Behaviour*
•Organisational Change*
Gender
•Globalisation, Gender and Development
•Gender, Postcolonialism, Development: Critical Perspectives and New Directions*
Government
•Public Management Theory and Doctrine*
•Public Management: A Strategic Approach*
•Democratisation and its Discontents in Southeast Asia
Geography
•Globalisation, Regional Development and Policy
•Local Economic Development and Policy
•Globalisation and Regional Development
•Economics of Local and Regional Development*
•Gender and Development: Geographical Perspectives*
•Environment and Development
•Cities, People and Poverty in the South*
•Cities, Culture and Politics in the South*
•Urban Ethnography*
•Urban Theory, Policy and Practice in the Global South
•The Economics of Regional and Urban Planning*
•Race and Space*
•Development, Diaspora and Migration*
•Environment and Development: Sustainability, Technology and Business*
•Environment and Development: Resources, Institutions and the Global South*
Management
•Business Model Innovation at the 'Base of the Pyramid'* '
Social Policy
•Urbanisation and Social Policy in the Global South*
•Reproductive Health Programmes: Design, Implementation and Evaluation*
•Child Rights, Child Poverty and Development
•Basic Education for Social Development*
•Migration: Population Trends and Policies*
•Planning for Population and Development*
教学与评估 Teaching and Assessment：
All students must take the core course and complete a dissertation of up to 10,000 words. Students also participate in a live group 'consultancy project' for a leading development agency, which forms part of their total assessment.