Master of Development Studies (097AB) // Attributes, outcomes and skills

Intended learning outcomes

On completion of this course, students should be able to: 

• Evaluate current practice, policy and scholarship about development, and the interaction between them
• Appraise the relations between the political, economic, socio-cultural, environmental and gendered dimensions of poverty, inequality and development
• Critically and constructively analyse development problems and interventions through rigorous interrogation of arguments and evidence.

Generic skills

Students who successfully complete the Masters should have acquired skills in:

• leadership and communication
• critical analysis and creative thinking
• project management
• team work and professional networking
• research, writing and communication.

Graduate attributes