Are you interested in development issues, developing countries, North-South relations? Would you like to study together with students from all over the world? Then the MPhil in Development Studies might be a perfect programme for you.

Development Studies provide the students with an understanding of the relationship between growth and poverty, globalisation and processes of marginalisation. Who wins and who loses in the developing process? What is the significance of social changes occurring in poor and developing countries today?

Empirical examples, exercises and assignments build on studies and development strategies of the South. Further, the programme encourages interdisciplinary thinking. This is sought through an interdisciplinary introductory course and elective courses offered by several different departments.

We aim at listening to voices from the South. Teachers from different countries in Africa and Asia are accordingly involved as lecturers etc. on a number of courses. The Norwegian teachers on the programme have long and varied work experience from research and teaching in the South. The aim is to provide students from the South with expertise that can be used in the development process in their home countries, and to give students from the North knowledge that will make them capable of assisting the development process, either through working in Norway or abroad. All lectures and tutorials are given in English.

The programme is structured around three core courses, different elective courses (some of which are offered by other Departments) and the writing of a Master’s thesis. The thesis is a substantial individual research project.