MSc Environment and Development

Full-time 12 months
Part-time 24 months

This course examines the policy challenges in promoting healthy envrionments in the developing world by providing an analytically rigorous but broadly-based understanding of the inter-relations between environment and development at the global, national and local levels.  The course is designed for students interested in pursuing careers in environmental policy and planning in international government and non-governmental organisations, academia and journalism. 

Course Content

Students take 60 credits in core modules:

  • Perspectives on Development
  • Environment and Development: Problems and Policies
  • Environment and Development: Case Studies
  • Resource and Environmental Economics
  • Research and Study Skills for Independant Learning

A further 60 credits are selected from a wide range of modules and students prepare a disertation on a relevant topic to be agreed with their Course Director. 

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Entry Requirements :

Applicants are normally required to have a good undergraduate Honours degree(or equivalent from a University outside the UK). Applicants with other qualifications and at least two years of relevant work experience may also be eligible to apply.

Students may join immediately after their undergraduate degree, or after some years of employment to enhance career prospects by acquiring further skills.

 

Contact: Postgraduate Student Office
Email: pgso@reading.ac.uk

 

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