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Programme Overview
The Masters in International Development Studies (IDS) is an interdisciplinary programme drawing from courses in diverse fields of study such as economics, history, political science, sociology and social anthropology as well as social policy. The IDS programme will offer students a challenging graduate degree programme with special focus on practice opportunities and career development, thereby offering promising professional careers in the broad area of international development.
Students will emerge from the programme with a thorough grounding in the history, debates, dimensions, institutional approaches, and critiques of the present field of international development and practice. Given the programme’s importance on building a bridge between academic discourse and development practice, the students will be expected to be able to evaluate documents of the international donor community, including the World Bank, analyse the institutional language of development professionals, and know how to put together proposals for grants and implement a development research.
