SP52106: Management of international development
[Page last updated: 15 August 2024]
| Academic Year: | 2024/25 |
| Owning Department/School: | Department of Social & Policy Sciences |
| Credits: | 10 [equivalent to 20 CATS credits] |
| Notional Study Hours: | 200 |
| Level: | Masters UG & PG (FHEQ level 7) |
| Period: |
- Semester 2
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| Assessment Summary: | CWRI 100% |
| Assessment Detail: |
- Briefing paper (CWRI 25%)
- Intervention proposal (CWRI 75%)
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| Supplementary Assessment: |
- Like-for-like reassessment (where allowed by programme regulations)
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| Requisites: |
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| Learning Outcomes: |
At the end of the unit, students will have:
- Knowledge and understanding of actors, organisations, and financial flows involved in the implementation of development policies and programmes in differing institutional contexts (T/F/A).
- An ability to apply a range of tools, techniques and frameworks for managing international development and humanitarian actions (T/F/A), particularly in complex contexts.
- Knowledge, and critical understanding of the personal attributes and skills associated with effective management and leadership.
- An enhanced ability to identify and critically assess management and leadership skills in self and others (T/F/A).
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| Synopsis: | Learn how to identify actors, organisations, and financial flows involved in the implementation of development and humanitarian policies and programmes in different institutional contexts.
In this unit, you'll examine dominant and critical approaches to understanding how these are conceptualised and managed. This includes their evolution, and arguments for and against.
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| Content: | This unit aims to introduce and to critically review the identification of actors, organisations, and financial flows involved in the implementation of development and humanitarian policies and programmes in differing institutional contexts. It examines dominant and critical approaches to understanding how these are conceptualised and managed, including their evolution and contestation.
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| Course availability: |
SP52106 is a Must Pass Unit on the following courses:
Department of Social & Policy Sciences
SP52106 is Optional on the following courses:
Department of Social & Policy Sciences
- THSP-AFM46 : MRes International Development
- THSP-AFM47 : MRes International Development
- THSP-APM41 : MSc International Development
- THSP-AFM42 : MSc International Development, Social Justice and Sustainability
- THSP-AWM42 : MSc International Development, Social Justice and Sustainability
- THSP-APM42 : MSc International Development, Social Justice and Sustainability
- THSP-AFM43 : MSc International Development with Conflict and Humanitarian Action
- THSP-AWM43 : MSc International Development with Conflict and Humanitarian Action
- THSP-APM43 : MSc International Development with Conflict and Humanitarian Action
- THSP-AFM44 : MSc International Development with Economics
- THSP-AWM44 : MSc International Development with Economics
- THSP-APM44 : MSc International Development with Economics
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Notes: - This unit catalogue is applicable for the 2024/25 academic year only. Students continuing their studies into 2025/26 and beyond should not assume that this unit will be available in future years in the format displayed here for 2024/25.
- Courses and units are subject to change in accordance with normal University procedures.
- Availability of units will be subject to constraints such as staff availability, minimum and maximum group sizes, and timetabling factors as well as a student's ability to meet any pre-requisite rules.
- Find out more about these and other important University terms and conditions here.
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