Environment, Politics and Development MSc 12 months Postgraduate Programme By King's College London |TopUniversities
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Programme Duration

12 monthsProgramme duration

Tuitionfee

31,600 GBPTuition Fee/year

Main Subject Area

Environmental SciencesMain Subject Area

Programme overview

Main Subject

Environmental Sciences

Degree

MSc

Study Level

Masters

Study Mode

On Campus

Our Environment, Politics and Development MSc programme provides an advanced theoretical understanding of the relationship between development problems and environmental issues. You will explore these relationships from the perspectives of political ecology, development geography and environmental governance. To illustrate these relationships, we use relevant case studies drawn from across the globe.

Key benefits
  • Learn and interact with academic staff that have first-hand experience of development problems and environmental issues in contexts from around the globe.
  • Appreciate critically the distinct disciplinary approaches to a dynamic and contested body of knowledge on development, politics and the environment
  • Develop awareness of contemporary development issues, problems and policies through engagement with development theory
  • Enhance understanding of framing and problem-solving challenges at the interface of environment and development with learning of political theory, political science and political ecology theories and environmental justice lenses
  • Gain critical analytical skills to uncover reciprocal relationships between changing natural environments and dynamic livelihood strategies, or the nature of power, difference and inequality within economic, social, physical and cultural environments
  • Develop interdisciplinary understanding of the ways in which the human and physical world is revealed through representations of space, place and landscape
  • Access opportunities to carry out original fieldwork either in the UK or overseas for your dissertation
  • An optional internship module helps students take their first steps towards employment in a relevant vocational field.

Programme overview

Main Subject

Environmental Sciences

Degree

MSc

Study Level

Masters

Study Mode

On Campus

Our Environment, Politics and Development MSc programme provides an advanced theoretical understanding of the relationship between development problems and environmental issues. You will explore these relationships from the perspectives of political ecology, development geography and environmental governance. To illustrate these relationships, we use relevant case studies drawn from across the globe.

Key benefits
  • Learn and interact with academic staff that have first-hand experience of development problems and environmental issues in contexts from around the globe.
  • Appreciate critically the distinct disciplinary approaches to a dynamic and contested body of knowledge on development, politics and the environment
  • Develop awareness of contemporary development issues, problems and policies through engagement with development theory
  • Enhance understanding of framing and problem-solving challenges at the interface of environment and development with learning of political theory, political science and political ecology theories and environmental justice lenses
  • Gain critical analytical skills to uncover reciprocal relationships between changing natural environments and dynamic livelihood strategies, or the nature of power, difference and inequality within economic, social, physical and cultural environments
  • Develop interdisciplinary understanding of the ways in which the human and physical world is revealed through representations of space, place and landscape
  • Access opportunities to carry out original fieldwork either in the UK or overseas for your dissertation
  • An optional internship module helps students take their first steps towards employment in a relevant vocational field.

Admission Requirements

3.3+
176+
7+
100+
62+
Candidates who do not achieve a 2:1 but have professional or voluntary experience will also be considered.

1 Year
Sep

  • Candidates are required to submit references or letter(s) of recommendation for acceptance
  • Candidates are required to submit an essay(s) for acceptance

Tuition fees

Domestic
14,500 GBP
International
31,600 GBP

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