Course Content
Year 1
- Foundational Issues in Global Development
- Research Methods in Global Development
Year 2
- Issues and Skills in Global Development
- Politics of Development
Year 3
- Work Placement
Year 4
- Advanced Issues and Skills in Global Development
- Global Development Dissertation
Option Modules
Year 1
- Introduction to International Politics
- Introducing Social Policy
- Exploring Social Policy and Social Justice
- Environment, Development and Society
- Global Geographies
- Historical Perspectives on Economic Growth
- Political Communities in World History
- Societies and Economies in World History
- Knowledge and Beliefs in World History
- Ecological Principles for the Environment
- Concepts in Environmental Science
- Frontiers in Sustainability Research
- Frontiers in Environmental Research
- Language module for credit
Year 2
- War and Peace
- Empire War and Law
- The Rising Powers
- Critical Global Security Studies
- Global Political Economy
- The Politics of Gender
- Megacities and Urbanisation
- Environmental Policy: from Global to Local
- Geographies of Development
- Economics of Sustainable Development
- Histories and Contexts: Available to all Global Development students
- Ending European Empires: Decolonization after 1945 in Comparative Perspective
- Britain in the Long Twentieth Century
- Explorations: Prerequisite - students must have an A-level in History (or equivalent) OR have taken a Stage 1 History module.
- From the Global Shadows: Africa and the World since the 1950's Knowledge and Empire, c.1760-1965
- “The Color Line”: Race and Empire in British, French and North American Worlds, c.1860-1945
- An Inconvenient Truth: Climate and Capitalism in the Modern World
- Black Radicalism in the Americas
- Britain and the World Since 1945
- LFA modules (not including Latin)
Year 4
- Regionalism in World Politics
- Governing the Global Economy
- Contemporary Politics of South Asia
- Global Food
- Ethnicity and Conflict
- Poverty & Inequality
- Sustainable Development & Social Inclusion
- Gender, Environment, and Global Poverty
- From Colonial to Post-Colonial States? The Twentieth Century Caribbean
- Improvement, Modernization or Violence? 'Development' in Historical Perspective
- Empires
- Neoliberalism & its Discontents: The World since 1968
- Education & International Development
- Education and Citizenship
