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BA (Hons) International Development

University of Portsmouth ( Navitas ), United Kingdom
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Course Overview

BA (Hons) International Development degree course, you'll learn to address some of the significant global challenges of our time, such as poverty and hunger, environmental sustainability, universal education and health care.

You'll expand your understanding of the role and purpose of cooperation between governments, international organisations and non-governmental organisations (NGOs) in international development, using this to gain insights into strategies to improve people's lives globally.

This course is ideal for a national and international career in community development, advocacy, policy development and public affairs. You'll have the confidence and ability to take what you learn in this course to positively impact areas such as gender equality and women's empowerment, democracy, human rights and conflict and security.

General Eligibility

Typical offers

  • A level – ABB–BBC

  • UCAS points – 112–128 points to include a minimum of 2 A levels or equivalent. (calculate your UCAS points)

  • T levels – Merit

  • BTECs (Extended Diplomas) – DDM–DMM

  • International Baccalaureate – 25

Part Time Work Details

20 hours of work permit weekly for international students.

What You'll Study

1 Year 1

  • Global Development

  • Introduction to Development Studies: Policy and Practice

  • Key Themes in International Relations

  • Professional Practice: Skills for Academic and Professional Success (ID)

  • The Making of the Global South

2 Year 2

Core modules this year include:

  • Economics and Politics of Development

  • Global Environmental Issues and Concerns

Optional modules in this year include:

  • Analysing Foreign Policy

  • Development and Democracy in Latin America

  • Development Economics L5

  • East Asian States and Societies

  • Empire and its Afterlives in Britain, Europe, and Africa

  • Engaged Citizenship in Humanities and Social Sciences

  • Gender and Social Justice

  • Global Security

  • Intercultural Perspectives on Communication

  • Introduction to Teaching

  • Managing Across Cultures (FHEQ5)

  • Marketing and Communication

  • Modern Foreign Language

  • Modernity and Globalisation

  • Nationalism and Migration: Chaos, Crisis and the Everyday

  • News, Discourse and Media

  • Principles of Economic Crime Investigation

  • Professional Experience L5 

  • Social Enterprise and Entrepreneurship

  • Space, Place and Being

  • Transitional Justice and Human Rights

  • Wildlife Crime: Threats and Response

3 Year 3

Core modules in this year include:

  • Dissertation / Major Project

  • Rethinking Aid and Development

Optional modules in this year include:

  • Africa Revisited: Nation Building and 'State Fragility' in Post-Colonial Africa

  • Global Capitalism: Past, Present and Future

  • Global Health

  • Independent Project

  • NGOs and Social Movements

  • Professional Development: Recruiters and Candidates

  • Professional Experience L6 

  • Race, Rights and Development: Global Perspectives on Inequality and Social Justice

  • Religion and Politics in Global Perspective

Language Requirement

  • IELTS5.5
  • TOEFL59
  • PTE50
  • Duolingo69

  • English language proficiency at a minimum of IELTS band 6.0 with no component score below 5.5.

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