PG Cert Global Development Challenges
The Postgraduate Certificate in Global Development Challenges is a part time, online programme.
Approach
Increasing economic, social and political inequalities in many parts of the world highlight the need for new ways of thinking about and addressing international development.
The Postgraduate Certificate in Global Development Challenges is a part time, online programme taking a multidisciplinary approach to understanding the issues and developing your capacity to address them in your professional life.
A multidisciplinary approach
Increasing economic, social and political inequalities in many parts of the world highlight the need for new ways of thinking about and addressing international development. Coming up with effective responses requires an understanding of the complexities of policy, governance and social interaction at multiple levels of society, in both wealthier countries and poorer countries.
Global governance, social marginalisation, human rights, regional conflict and security, livelihoods, health and human migration, national economic reform, donor aid strategy, international project evaluation, public-private sector partnerships for development and sustainable development policies are some of the major themes explored, demonstrating the importance of the programme's multidisciplinary approach.
Study while you work
The Postgraduate Certificate in Global Development Challenges is an online distance learning programme for people working, or considering a career, at the intersections of policy, practice and/or research in a range of sectors including government, international agencies, NGOs, private sector and academia.
It offers a flexible approach to personal and professional development and can be studied around your other commitments, including full time work, from anywhere in the world with internet access.
Develop understanding, knowledge and skills
You will develop understanding, knowledge and skills to apply in your professional life:
- understand the complex social, political and economic processes and contexts that shape contemporary global patterns of inequity and development
- be able to critically evaluate development issues, initiatives and projects at multiple levels of society within a global context
- be able to apply theories and insights from scholarly research to support the development of appropriate responses to such issues through practice and policy
Expertise from across the university and beyond
The Postgraduate Certificate in Global Development Challenges is offered by the School of Social and Political Science in the College of Humanities and Social Science.
The programme draws on multidisciplinary expertise from across the university and beyond through the Global Development Academy, a global network of experts developing innovative solutions for the world's most challenging problems.
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Course description
The Global Development Certificate programme is offered as an online learning, 60-credit Postgraduate Certificate, comprising the following courses:
Compulsory Courses (40 credits)
Global Development Challenges (20 credits) - September - December
Rapid technological, political, environmental and economic changes are linking the world in ways that are both symptomatic of, and drivers of, emerging global challenges. You will examine the implications for institutional decision-making and for society. Themes include inequality and poverty, conflict and social vulnerability, globalisation, human rights and national and global governance.
You will develop your capacity to analyse development issues, taking account of the complex social, institutional and economic contexts in which governance takes place.
Analysing Development (20 credits) - January - March
This course provides a practical overview of international development aid: its role in addressing humanitarian emergencies, funding social services, stimulating economic change and supporting the work of non-governmental actors; and also its perverse effects: creating dependency, undermining public services, fuelling economic crises and political turmoil.
You will develop your capacity to critically assess the social and political effects of aid and the way aid policy is made and executed.
Optional Course (20 credits)
For a list of optional courses, please visit our Degree Programme Table