Short Courses in Development Studies

Birbeck College

• Birbeck College at the University of London offers a short, part-time, certificate-awarding course in Development Studies in four modules. To achieve the Certificate of Higher Education awarded by the University of London, students must complete all four modules, for a total of 120 credits. The modules are: (1) Introductions: Understanding the Social World; (2) Theories and Development; (3) Development and Globalization, and (4) Actors in Development. The program is designed to give students a firm understanding of global power and inequality with regards to women, ethnicity, disability, and the like. The role of governments, NGOs, and non-profits is considered. Each course meets 11-15 times.

  Birbeck Colleger

  Malet Street

  London WC1E 7HX

  United Kingdom

  020-7631-6000

  bbk.as.edu

Johns Hopkins

• The Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced International Studies at Johns Hopkins University offers summer-long certificate courses in International Development Studies. The program is designed to help participants anticipate and solve problems in social, economic, and political development. Students are required to take four classes in order to achieve the certificate, two of which must be Comparative National Systems and Introduction to Economic Development. Approved electives for the other two classes include Energy, Environment and Development in Developing Countries and Rural Development and the World Food Crisis.

  The Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS)

  The Johns Hopkins University

  Nitze Building

  1740 Massachusetts Ave., N.W.

  Washington, D.C. 20036

  202-663-5600

  sais-jhu.edu

University of East Anglia

• The University of East Anglia provides students with six UK-based short training courses in development studies. The two-to-four-week courses are designed to give participants a broad understanding and important base of knowledge on a number of important subjects in the field of development studies, from topics such as Climate Change and Development and Monitoring and Evaluating for Development Activities. Ideal students for the courses are those from developing nations or working with development organizations looking for basic understanding and knowledge to bring back to their respective organizations in order to implement positive policy.

  University of East Anglia

  Norwich, NR4 7TJ

  United Kingdom

  01603-456161

  uea.ac.uk