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Degree Programme Table: International Development (MSc) (Full-time) (PTMSCINTER1F)

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Year 1 Academic year: 2025/26, Starting in: September

Notes:
Not all electives may run in a given year and places may be limited.
Students will have an opportunity to apply for a Placement-based Dissertation in Semester 2. http://www.drps.ed.ac.uk/current/dpt/cxpgsp11539.htm

Compulsory courses

You must take these courses
Politics and Theories of International Development
PGSP11240 20 credits
Interpreting Development: Institutions and Practices
PGSP11296 20 credits
International development: research design and practice
PGSP11420 0 credits
People First: The Anthropology of International Development
SCAN11027 20 credits
Dissertation (MSc International Development)

Must be passed at 50% and taken during Block 5 (Sem 2) and beyond

PGSP11291 60 credits

Course options

Group A

Select exactly 60 credits in this group.

Recommended Electives - International Development

Select between 0 and 60 credits of the following courses
Key Skills in Development Practice
PGSP11348 20 credits
Displacement and Development
PGSP11369 20 credits
Anthropology of Global Health
PGSP11379 20 credits
Energy in the Global South
PGSP11422 20 credits
Economic Development and Change in Africa
PGSP11451 20 credits
Business and International Development
PGSP11471 20 credits
Digital Global Development
PGSP11573 20 credits
Conflict, Security, and Development
PGSP11590 20 credits
AND

Additional Electives - International Development

Select between 0 and 60 credits of the following courses
Policing and Punishment: Insights from across the globe
AFRI11010 20 credits
Governance, Development and Inequality in Africa
AFRI11011 20 credits
Education and Conflict
EDUA11425 20 credits
Introduction to Education and International Development
EDUA11436 20 credits
Research Skills in the Social Sciences: Data Collection
PGSP11016 20 credits
Consumption, Exchange, Technology: The Anthropology of Economic Processes
PGSP11176 20 credits
Gender and Development
PGSP11225 20 credits
Research in Africa
PGSP11340 20 credits
Evaluation Research Methods
PGSP11373 20 credits
Anthropology of Sex and Reproduction
PGSP11415 20 credits
Anthropology and Environment
PGSP11416 20 credits
Resource Politics and Development
PGSP11418 20 credits
Latin American Anthropology
PGSP11419 20 credits
Contagion
PGSP11421 20 credits
Conflict and Peace in Africa
PGSP11453 20 credits
Critical approaches to Global Mental Health and Social Change
PGSP11562 20 credits
Culture and Mental Health in a Global Perspective
PGSP11563 20 credits
Pursuing Justice after Violence
PGSP11605 20 credits
AND

Additional Electives - EFI Courses (fusion-on-site option) - International Development

Select between 0 and 20 credits of the following courses
Notes:
The courses beginning EFI are 10 credits and you would need to take 2 courses for 20 credits. You need to register for the "fusion-on-site" option. This requires contacting the programme director and course organiser for permission. Students on this programme will not have priority enrolment for these courses and spaces may be limited.
Narratives of Digital Capitalism (fusion on-site)
EFIE11007 10 credits
Migration and Forced Displacement in a Digital Age (fusion on-site)
EFIE11050 10 credits
AND

Level 11 courses in Schedules A to Q, T and W

Select between 0 and 20 credits from Level 11 courses in Schedules A to Q, T and W
Notes:
Courses in this collection can only be taken with permission of the Programme Director and the Course Organiser.
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