Masters in Development Studies 2018-2019 Brochure nieuw ontwerp 2018 web | Page 17

Module I
(for all three Master programmes)
Course Credits Period
Theories of development
• Unit 1: Economic and institutional development 8 ECTS Sep – Jan
4 ECTS Sep – Jan
6 ECTS Sep – Jan
Credits Period
12 ECTS Jan – Mar
• Unit 2: Politics of development
• Unit 3: Poverty and inequality
Research methods I
• Unit 1: Research in a development context
• Unit 2: Design and methodology in development research
Research methods II (choose up to 3 units)
Quantitative Units
• Unit 1: Working with data
• Unit 2: Regression analysis and inference
Qualitative Units
• Unit 3: People as informants: collecting qualitative data
• Unit 4: Participatory research and development methods
• Unit 5: Multi-actor processes in development: negotiation,
collaboration and mediation
• Unit 6: Analysing text and discourse in development
• Unit 7: Qualitative data analysis
• Unit 8: Mobility window (research stay) at UCA (Nicaragua) or
Mzumbe University (Tanzania)
Module II
MS c in G lobalisation and D evelopment
Globalisation and development
Unit 1: Globalisation: the basic issues
Unit 2: Sub-units on various topics: (choose 3 out of 4 subunits)
• Trade policy: poverty impact and policy implications
• Financial globalisation and the poor
• Global value chain
• Global environment-development nexus
Unit 3: End-of-module paper
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