Hi
List members may be interested in the following MA scheme, run in
conjunction with the Disability Research Unit:
University of Leeds
Centre for Development Studies
MA Development Studies and Disability
12 months full-time; 24 months part-time
(also offered as Post-Graduate Diploma)
Objectives
To combine broad interdisciplinary insight into development
theories and strategies, with knowledge and skills relating to
disability studies
Content
Students follow a common core programme which includes
theoretical debates about development alongside a review of
theories of disability. Option modules deepen knowledge across
the areas of both development and disability and include project
and research skills in the context of developing countries and with
respect to disability issues, social policy, politics and disabled
people and such specialist topics as gender and development,
food security, the politics of developing countries and rural
development. All students produce a dissertation dealing with both
development and disability issues.
Core Programme: Development Theories, Strategies and Issues;
Definitions and Theories of Disability; Dissertation
Options: Research Methodology; Managing Development Projects;
Project Appraisal; Evaluation of Social Development Projects;
Project Formulation and Implementation; Gender and
Development; Rural Development; Famine and Food Security;
Research Disability and Changing Practice; Social Policy, Politics
and Disabled People
Entry Requirements
Normally a good first degree in the social sciences or another
appropriate discipline, or equivalent qualifications on the basis of
professional and work experience.
When taken for a Post-Graduate Diploma (a 9 month programme where no
dissertation is required), a first degree in an area outside of the social
sciences is permissible and greater weight may be placed on development
or professional experience, especially where a first degree is not part of the
academic profile. Upgrading to the MA is possible if performance is of a
sufficient standard.
It is hoped that this will shortly also become available as a
‘distance learning’ programme.
Further information and application form: Maura Crosland,
Centre for Development Studies, University of Leeds, Leeds LS2
9JT; tel: 0113 233 4393; email: [log in to unmask]
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