Course Profile

This four year course offers career-focused professional training, delivered by people with first hand development experience, in a department at the cutting edge of development policy and practice.

The aim is to equip you with the practical skills and knowledge you need to build a successful career that will help you achieve your priorities and your ambitions, whether that be running a grassroots campaign or a humanitarian response and whether that be in the private, government or non-profit sectors.

Beyond the core teaching, the course will offer options to develop regional or thematic areas of expertise in DEV’s traditional areas of strength. And in addition to developing practical skills, it will also help build critical expertise and an awareness of development’s challenges that is central to all the courses we provide.

This course is about preparing you to achieve your goals in international development.

In it, you will be grounded in the management techniques and concepts needed to work effectively in the modern development sector. For example, you will learn what it takes to run an advocacy campaign, deliver a health services project, or manage a small charity or an evaluation team. You will demonstrate familiarity with and the ability to use key planning, management, monitoring, evaluation and communication tools.

The course will give you the opportunities to develop the skills and techniques you have learned in a real life setting through our development work placement module. Not only will this contextualize and ground what you have learned, it will also boost your employability and help you reflect on your own positioning within the sector.

Development as a sector is characterized by power relations and by often politically contested processes of change. Beyond the practical skills and experience, the course is also about equipping you with the critical skills needed to navigate the development sector. What does this mean for you? How should you position yourself?

Lastly, you will be equipped a strong grounding in the skills of research and analysis, including the ability to look critically at development interventions, looking beyond the claims made to understand the power dynamics on which development is based.

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Train to make a difference on a global scale with a degree in international development and the environment. You’ll explore environmental issues in development such as climate change, water security, reconciling development needs with forest conservation, valuing biological diversity and sustainable natural resource management. At the same time you’ll discover the links between the environment, questions of policy, people’s livelihoods and poverty reduction.

You’ll be on one of very few courses in the UK that integrates social and natural science, whilst taking a broad interdisciplinary approach to the study of development issues.

You’ll graduate well prepared to work in one of the many development fields linked to the environment, sustainable natural resource management and rural livelihood improvement.

On this course you’ll study the key themes in environmental and natural resource management. How do we understand and measure environmental change? What do we mean by good environmental governance? How do we achieve both sustainable development and sustainable environmental management? How can our understanding of these areas influence environment and development policy, human rights and other elements that collectively determine the wellbeing of individuals and communities? Your studies will concentrate on natural resources and environmental issues in development, such as climate change, water security, environmental hazards, food security, coastal ecosystem management and forest conservation, biological diversity and sustainability. You’ll explore links between the environment, questions of policy, and people’s livelihoods and poverty reduction. You’ll learn about the current distribution of access to resources, services, opportunities, human rights and other elements that determine the wellbeing of individuals and communities.

You’ll be taught by academic staff whose research is internationally renowned. We’re actively involved in research across the globe, working on most of the topics we teach with local counterparts and many national and international development agencies.

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Immerse yourself in the worlds of media, communication, and international development, and study the complex relationship between them. Discover the ways charities and other development organisations communicate about famine, poverty, and developing countries, and how they affect public attitudes. Explore why some humanitarian crises make it onto our TV screens and others don’t, and ask what effect is this has on government policy. You’ll also ask, how important is press freedom and freedom of speech in promoting democracy and economic growth? What is the impact of social media in developing countries – do Facebook and Twitter facilitate citizens' engagement with politics or do they undermine genuine political participation?

On this innovative course you’ll be able to study both media and international development, and the relationship between them. The media are important to all aspects of international development, from promoting mass mobilisation and political participation to facilitating the flow of information. At the same time, the media is central to encouraging charitable donations, promoting democracy and human rights, and delivering public health messages during emergencies. This course will enable you to bring an international outlook to a career in media. You’ll also be able to bring an in depth understanding of media to a career in international development. You’ll graduate particularly well prepared for careers in NGO communications, development journalism, humanitarian communication and media development. This degree is unique in the UK in combining media and international development studies side by side. In both fields you’ll be taught by academic staff whose research is internationally renowned. We’re actively involved in research across the globe, working with many national and international development agencies.

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There are incredible differences between outcomes in rich and poor countries. Being born in one of the richest nations can increase your life expectancy by up to 30 years and your earning potential up to 100 times compared to someone born in one of the poorest. On this degree you’ll learn to contribute effectively to development policy and practice, particularly where economics is the dominant specialty. You’ll explore how these inequalities arise, as well as discovering the policies and processes that can reduce them. By choosing the School of International Development, you’ll learn in an interdisciplinary environment. You’ll be exposed to perspectives from subjects like anthropology, politics, geography and natural resources. Guided by lecturers with first-hand experience, you will gain deeper and more rounded understanding of contemporary global trends.

On this course you’ll examine international development while establishing strong foundations in micro and macro economics. You’ll acquire the ability to think like an economist about important world issues, using data and becoming familiar with models of how the world works. You’ll study microeconomics and macroeconomics. You’ll also explore definitions of economic development, and investigate the relationship between poverty, economic development and trade theories, exclusion and deprivation. You’ll address economic and broader socio-political processes. You'll explore the relationship between economy and the environment in different world regions, examining globalisation and its effects.

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Levels of development differ between and within countries. On this degree you’ll study the causes of that inequality and explore possible solutions. You’ll also discover how the development process is shaped by key development actors, including governments, international development agencies, NGOs, and social movements. In your third year, you’ll have the opportunity to spend two to six months gaining work experience either abroad or in the UK through our Development Work Placement module. For many students, this experience is the highlight of their time at university, and can help you to develop your career.

This innovative degree programme combines the study of politics with interdisciplinary approaches to international development. You’ll study a range of topics including the politics of poverty, inequality, democracy and democratisation, the causes and consequences of conflict, and the relationships between state and society. In your dissertation you’ll study a topic of your own choice in depth, under the supervision of a faculty member. You’ll also have the chance to develop a range of skills that are valued by employers, including research skills, data analysis, preparing reports, giving presentations, and team work. You’ll be taught by academic staff whose research is internationally renowned. We’re actively involved in research across the globe, working with many national and international development agencies. Our research commitments keep our lecturers in touch with teaching and development issues at grassroots level and ensures you benefit from the very latest thinking. Our flexible approach to learning enables you to explore your interests and strengths, graduating with a world-class degree in international development.

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Explore how people live, understand and interact within different societies, and how international development affects social change. You’ll explore different aspects of cultural diversity whilst examining the impact of international development on economic growth and social and cultural transformation. You’ll be taught by academic staff whose research is internationally renowned. We’re actively involved in research across the globe, working with many national and international development agencies. Our flexible approach to learning means you can explore your interests and strengths, graduating with a world-class degree in international development.

On this course you’ll explore all aspects of cultural diversity. At the same time, you’ll discover how aspects of international development such as economic growth, and social and cultural transformation, can affect people’s lives. You’ll have the opportunity to draw on other disciplines such as economics, geography and politics to better understand how policy and practice can be improved through greater anthropological engagement. Within UEA’s School of International Development you’ll develop practical skills in key anthropological methods while developing your interest in specific subject areas. In the world-renowned Sainsbury Centre for Visual Arts you’ll study material culture. You’ll also have the opportunity to learn a language (e.g. French and Spanish) and participate in a filmmaking for development workshop.

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Combine the study of human geography with international development. Learn how to tackle the biggest challenges facing the modern world – poverty and inequality, food security, climate change, conflict, global governance, sustainability and migration. You’ll study geography in depth and apply your knowledge and analysis to issues in international development. The course emphasises academic rigour and technical skills, whilst building your employability. You’ll gain practical skills training, field experience, and IT skills including in Geographical Information Systems (GIS). Our School of International Development is internationally renowned for its research. We’re home to the Water Security Research Centre. We have important research groups in areas such as Global Environmental Justice, Lifecourse and Migration, and Gender. We collaborate with the School of Environmental Sciences, which houses the Tyndall Centre for Climate Change Research and a research group on Science, Society and Sustainability.

On this course you'll study specialised human and social geography modules such as Geographies of Development, People and Place and Urban Geographies. You can select modules dedicated to the development of regions of the world such as Sub-Saharan Africa, South Asia and Latin America. You also have the opportunity to choose from a range of related disciplines including anthropology, politics, economics, environmental studies and media. Fieldwork and field courses are a vital part of the degree. Along with field-work elements in several of the taught modules, you'll benefit from a weekend residential trip in the first year. In the second year you will take a compulsory field trip module, either in the UK or overseas. In your third year, you’ll have the opportunity to gain hands on experience through your dissertation research and/or Development Work Placement module.