Course Type: Postgraduate (taught)
Training Provider: University of Glasgow
School/Institute/Dept./Centre: Centre for Development Studies (CDS)

Programme structure

Students take four core courses and select two additional options from the list below. MSc candidates also write a 12,000-15,000 word dissertation. Students are required to attend a course on research methodology in preparation for writing the dissertation.

Core courses

Development Policy
This course analyses some of the main social and developmental problems facing less developed countries and examines possible policy responses. Four main sets of problems are considered. The course looks first at poverty and income distribution and goes on to consider population growth and education. A third part of the course deals with rural-urban migration and poses the question why this should continue even though migrants often find at best poorly paid jobs in the cities to which they go. The course ends with a series of lectures on financial development and policies to build financial institutions. Throughout, the course attempts to provide a basis for formulating alternative policy responses and encourage an understanding of the limitations of different policies along with the importance of specific country conditions.

Principles of Business and Management
This course consists of five components: Managing Operations; Managing People ; Marketing; Financial Information Management; and Strategy and the Competitive Environment. By the end of the course, students should be able to fully understand the role of effective and efficient management in all areas of economic and human activity, and to apply basic knowledge and understanding of management to practical business problems.

Methods of Management Enquiry
This course will enable students to develop generic skills of research to analyse management situations and solve management problems. It will draw upon techniques of management enquiry to formulate key questions, design research methods to address them, develop and evaluate feasible solutions, and plan the implementation of these solutions.

Applied Management Theory
This course consists of three parts: Strategic Management, Strategic Marketing, and Human Factors and Organisational Relations. In Strategic Management students will show how to formulate a viable organisational strategy, and develop an understanding of organisational change. In Strategic Marketing they will learn how to analyse strategic marketing situations, identifying both underlying marketing problems and key marketing decision-making areas, before formulating strategic and operational marketing plans. And in Human Factors and Organisational Relations students will learn about a range of different systems development perspectives and methodologies and evaluate proposals for user-participation in organisational change, particularly that associated with the use of IT.

Optional courses

• Economic Appraisal of Development Projects
• Globalisation, Trade and Economic Development
• Poverty: Concept, Analysis and Policies
• Quantitative Methods for Planning - Optimal Decision Making

Students may also choose relevant options from other MSc Programmes subject to approval.

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Staff:
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Entry Requirements:
Applicants for MSc programmes will be expected to have at least an upper second class honours degree, or comparable non-UK degree. Normally, this should be a degree in economics or a joint degree containing a significant amount of economics, although in the case of the programme in Development Studies, an upper second class honours degree in an area of the social sciences is acceptable, while applicants for Environment and Sustainable Development should have the equivalent of an upper second class degree in a relevant field of study. Occasionally candidates with other qualifications and/or relevant work experience may also be admitted. Well-qualified applicants who do not meet the requirements for MSc programmes may be accepted for a programme of study leading to the award of a postgraduate Diploma.

Course Duration:
MSc: 12 months (October-September) full-time, 24 months part-time. Diploma: 9months (October-June) full-time, 2*9 months over two sessions part-time.

Language(s) of Instruction:

• English

Thematic Focus:

• Development Policy and Management
• Development Studies

Country(ies):

• United Kingdom

Town(s) or City(ies):
Glasgow

Course fees:
Please see http://www.gla.ac.uk/registry/students/fees/feeindex.html for details.

Scholarships & Awards:
Please see http://www.gla.ac.uk/studying/scholarships/ for details.

Course's Webpage:
http://www.gla.ac.uk/centres/developmentstudies/postgraduatetaughtprogrammes/mscinmanagementdevelopmentpolicy/