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Overview
You’ll explore the critical questions these challenges raise for understanding and addressing global development issues, including socio-economic security, migration, environmental sustainability, technological innovation, the global politics of development, and the politics of doing development. You’ll have the opportunity to investigate development issues that are of particular interest to you in guided ‘exploration weeks’. These will develop your specialised knowledge and independent enquiry skills.
Vocational relevance
The Key Challenges In Global Development module at The Open University UK will have particular relevance for you if you are working, or want to work, in development-related fields in the UK or around the world. It serves as a gateway for anyone for who wishes to enter the field of global development and as a challenge to the thinking and practice of anyone who is already established in the field. With its breadth of focus across development theory and practice, the module is designed to equip you with the capacities to undertake a wider range of careers, such as in academic and applied research, the design and management of development projects and interventions, and development policy analysis and formulation.
Programme Structure
Modules- Block 1 introduces you to the ways in which conflict, governance, justice, and transformation can be seen as key challenges that cut across all development issues, processes and interventions.
- Block 2 examines the challenge of conflict, exploring the different ways it is understood and the multiple impacts it has on development. You’ll learn why conflict is considered a key challenge in understanding and addressing global development issues.
- Block 3 takes up the challenge of governance, referring to systems for managing collective action problems, for allocating and exercising authority, and for distributing resources within and between societies.
- Block 4 introduces the challenge of justice as central to all debates about global development.
- Block 5 examines the challenge of transformation in terms of framing and pursuing ‘good change’ and understanding historical transitions of one kind or another.
Key information
Duration
- Part-time
- 8 months
Start dates & application deadlines
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Language
English
Credits
60 alternative credits
Delivered
Online
Disciplines
Economics Sociology International Development View 51 other Short Courses in Sociology in United KingdomAcademic requirements
We are not aware of any specific GRE, GMAT or GPA grading score requirements for this programme.
English requirements
We are not aware of any English requirements for this programme.
Other requirements
General requirements
- In order to study this module you must have successfully completed either Global development in practice (D890) or Understanding global development (DD870).
Tuition Fee
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International
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4235 GBP/fullTuition FeeBased on the tuition of 4235 GBP for the full programme during 8 months.
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