- Degree
- Master of Arts
- Course location
- Möckern
- Teaching language
- • English
- Languages
- English
- Full-time / part-time
- • full-time
- Programme duration
- 4 semesters
- Beginning
- Winter semester
- Additional information on beginning, duration and mode of study
- Full-time studies (120 ECTS): two years / four semesters (including a practical training session of eight weeks)
- Application deadline
- EU students: 31 August, non-EU students: 31 March
- Tuition fees per semester in EUR
- 3,079 EUR
- Combined Master's degree / PhD programme
- No
- Joint degree / double degree programme
- No
- Description/content
- The MA Development has a specific focus on issues around global justice. Students learn about relevant theories as well as the practical realities of the development/aid industry. Everyone is required to do an internship and can choose a field of concentration such as gender, sustainability or migration.
The MA prepares thoroughly for a career in development through its emphasis on research methods and project planning. Furthermore, it enables students to develop a critical view on global power relations and to question “development” from a post-colonial perspective. Being highly cosmopolitan with students from all over the world, its specific worth lies in the opportunity to assess international issues through a literally global perspective stemming from the diversity of the student body.
General Content
• Academic Writing and Presentation Skills
• Theories of Development
• Critical Reflection on Development Cooperation
• Poverty Analysis and Social Protection
• Development Economics
• Project Planning
• Empirical Research Methods
• Internship in the Field of Development Cooperation or Humanitarian Aid
• Empirical Research Methods
• Qualitative and Quantitative Research Methods
• Research Oriented Master's Thesis
Concentrations
• Migration, Displacement and Development
• Gender, Intersectionality and Development
• Sustainability and Resource Use
Electives offered in addition to the concentrations
• Monitoring and Evaluation of Humanitarian Interventions (MEDI)
• Human Rights in Theory and Practice
• International Peace and Conflict Studies
• Childhood, Children and Child Rights
• Contemporary Religion and Development
• Disaster Response and Humanitarian Aid
• Global Public Health