The Master
of Arts in Sustainable International Development has an innovative
professional curriculum that includes a Year-in-Residence studying
with senior researchers and development practitioners, and a second-year
field project, internship, or advanced study applying and evaluating
methods and models of development. The accelerated track option exempts
a select group of advanced development practitioners from the second-year
internship while raising the academic requirements for them
during their Year-in-Residence
To gain a comprehensive understanding of
the historical and current state of world development, by probing
selected issues affecting the interests
of future generations, in a context of interdependence.
To acquire
a capability to examine models of development for their achievements
in reducing poverty, hunger and human inequality, in raising the
quality of choices available for a good life and in conserving the environment.
To develop critical thinking about complex interrelationships by
linking concerns reserved traditionally to social scientists, ecologists,
demographers, economists, policy makers, human rights activists, and development
practitioners.
To offer courses that cover four broad work areas that combine
some of the key concerns:
