MA International Development at Anglia Ruskin University

The MA International Development is offered at Anglia Ruskin University.

Duration: 12 months full-time; 24 months part-time  |  Study mode: full-time, part-time  |  Intake: September 2027  |  Location: Chelmsford, England, United Kingdom

What you will study

Through weekly lectures and seminar discussions, you will expand your horizons and broaden your perspectives on a wide range of theories, policies, and practices of international development. Your affective and transferable skills will be enhanced through presentations, class debates and role play, and your interpersonal skills enriched through effective negotiation, persuasion, and presentation, as well as developing your awareness of multi-disciplinary and multicultural approaches to studying international development. Year 1: Theoretical Foundations: Critiques, Debates and Contexts, Global Development: Policy and Practice, Postgraduate Dissertation Project; options include War, Peacekeeping and Military Intervention, Beyond Borders Intercultural Communication Welfare and Policy, Policing Transnational Crime, Intercultural Consultancy Project.

Career pathways

Our MA International Development will allow you to develop your employability toolkit organically as you study from the very start of the course. By the time you graduate, you will be well equipped to pursue a career in the non-for-profit or humanitarian sectors, or a range of local, national, and international organisations.

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