BA (Hons) International Development with NGO Management (with Foundation year)

• A Level: Must include passes at A2 in at least one subject.
• BTEC: Extended Diploma (QCF) or Diploma (QCF)
• International Baccalaureate: Diploma with 24 points including a minimum of 15 points at Higher Level.
• Other equivalent qualifications recognised by the university.

Note: We would normally expect you to have Grade C in GCSE English and Maths.

English Language Requirements:

• Overall IELTS score of 5.5 with a minimum of 5.5 in Reading, Writing, Listening and Speaking (or recognised equivalent).

By studying International Development, you'll be asking vitally important questions. What is poverty? What is the connection between a country’s economy and the wellbeing of its people? How do issues such as inequality, conflict and faith relate to development? What is globalisation and how does it impact on all of our lives?

Our course gives special emphasis to the lived experience of people in the developing world. In doing so, it challenges the assumption that development is a purely economic phenomenon.

Your third-year work placement in an NGO, which we’ll help you to arrange, will provide you with invaluable experience in the field, whether it’s at the Vitality project in Bangladesh or working for the St Francis Hospice in the UK. You’ll develop the skills that NGOs look for in people they employ.

In addition to studying theory, you’ll learn about real-world issues in modules such as Human Mobility, Forced Migration and Social Change as well as The Politics of Global Powers and Imperialism Now: Economy, State and War.

Foundation Year

• Key ideas and issues for Social Scientists 
• Understanding Work in Contemporary Society 
• Perspectives on Race and Racism 
• Technology and Self 

Year 1

• Introduction to Development Studies
• Introduction to the Political Economy of Development 
• International Studies 
• Introduction to NGO Management

Year 2

• Theories of Development and Globalisation
• Inequalities, Social Development and Livelihoods 
• Planning & Fundraising in the Third Sector

Optional:

• Human Mobility, Forced Migration and Social Change 
• International Organization and Global Governance 
• Anthropological Theory 

Year 3

• Research Methods & Dissertation 
• NGO Placement 

Optional:

• Imperialism Now: Economy, State and War 
• Global
• Islam and Society 
• Faith and Development 
• Conflict, Intervention and Development 
• Overseas Study Semester 
• The Politics of Global Powers 
• Topics in Regional Ethnography 
• Anthropology of Political Economy and Belief