12 monthsProgramme duration
3,093 EURTuition Fee/year
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Programme overview
Main Subject
Sociology
Degree
MSc
Study Level
Masters
Study Mode
On Campus
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The advanced Master of Cultural Anthropology and Development Studies (CADES) draws on anthropology's unique vantage point to enhance students’ intercultural expertise, understanding and skills. Based on cutting-edge research conducted at the Department of Social and Cultural Anthropology, the programme counters the universalising Western master narrative of modernisation and promotes an integrated approach to development issues, transnational solidarity and social change. In taking this tack, rather than offering a ready-made toolkit, CADES explores the bigger questions underlying current development practices.
More specifically, CADES seeks to demonstrate how local actors resist and/or respond to the omnipresent forces of economic globalisation and social change. Only a profound intercultural understanding of, and engagement with, development can open up innovative avenues towards equality. It is for this reason that the programme addresses a wealth of topics ranging from the history of development (theory) to contemporary debates on social exclusion, ecology and climate change in the anthropocene, urbanisation, migration and mobility, social transformation, solidarity, global policy and many others.
The programme will offer you concepts and a theoretical framework embedded in anthropology to acquire a better grasp of the complexity of international development. You will also learn how to translate aspects of this complexity into research questions and appropriate research methods. Designing individual ethnographic field work in combination with in-depth courses is at the core of the programm. Our partners, network and the extended research networks of staff members will provide you with ample opportunities for organising the ethnographic research required for your master thesis.
Programme overview
Main Subject
Sociology
Degree
MSc
Study Level
Masters
Study Mode
On Campus
Get in touch: join KU Leuven’s Webinars
Discover all that KU Leuven has to offer via one of KU Leuven’s Webinars about KU Leuven, admissions & applying, housing, and more.
The advanced Master of Cultural Anthropology and Development Studies (CADES) draws on anthropology's unique vantage point to enhance students’ intercultural expertise, understanding and skills. Based on cutting-edge research conducted at the Department of Social and Cultural Anthropology, the programme counters the universalising Western master narrative of modernisation and promotes an integrated approach to development issues, transnational solidarity and social change. In taking this tack, rather than offering a ready-made toolkit, CADES explores the bigger questions underlying current development practices.
More specifically, CADES seeks to demonstrate how local actors resist and/or respond to the omnipresent forces of economic globalisation and social change. Only a profound intercultural understanding of, and engagement with, development can open up innovative avenues towards equality. It is for this reason that the programme addresses a wealth of topics ranging from the history of development (theory) to contemporary debates on social exclusion, ecology and climate change in the anthropocene, urbanisation, migration and mobility, social transformation, solidarity, global policy and many others.
The programme will offer you concepts and a theoretical framework embedded in anthropology to acquire a better grasp of the complexity of international development. You will also learn how to translate aspects of this complexity into research questions and appropriate research methods. Designing individual ethnographic field work in combination with in-depth courses is at the core of the programm. Our partners, network and the extended research networks of staff members will provide you with ample opportunities for organising the ethnographic research required for your master thesis.
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Admission Requirements
Students with a degree obtained at an institution outside the Flemish Community:
Diploma requirements
• A 4-year university degree (3-year Bachelor + 1-year Master) or (4-year Bachelor equaling 240 ECTS credits)
• Applicants should have outstanding academic results (cum laude or higher). Relevant professional experience is considered as an asset.
Language requirements
The CADES programme is taught in English and students are therefore required to demonstrate a high level of English proficiency (C 1-level), based on the Council of Europe’s Common Framework of Reference for Languages.
Students who obtained their secondary school diploma or academic degree in English in one of the following countries can be exempted from this requirement: Australia, English-speaking Canada, Ireland, New Zealand, the United Kingdom or the United States of America.
For students whose undergraduate or previous studies were all in English (a minimum of four years), copies of transcripts and diplomas may serve as proof of English proficiency.
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