UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH

NEW: MSc South Asia and International Development

The Graduate School of Social and Political Science at the University of Edinburgh is pleased to announce a new one year taught Masters programme, the MSc in South Asia and International Development. This is part of a suite of development-related Masters programmes established under the Global Development Academy.

This Masters programme draws on expertise in the University of Edinburgh’s Centre for South Asian Studies and beyond and will enable students to address crucial political, social and economic issues that confront the South Asian region, for instance: the impact of theoretical perspectives on development on local and international efforts to generate development in South Asia; how development in South Asia has been shaped by history; how international economic and political processes impinge on the livelihoods of ordinary people in the region; and the co-existence of enduring poverty and inequity with apparently dynamic social, economic and demographic change.

The programme will appeal to people from a wide range of professional and disciplinary backgrounds who are interested in pursuing careers in development agencies, consultancy, the public sector and non-governmental organisations as well as academia. Students will do two compulsory courses, as well as the four optional courses and the dissertation that will enable them to build study programmes that best suit their own disciplinary and professional interests.

The University of Edinburgh welcomes students from around the world to study together in Scotland’s beautiful and vibrant capital city. Students will normally complete the programme in one year of full-time study, but it can also be undertaken over two years on a part-time basis. Applications for admission in September 2011 will be accepted from late December 2010 until 15^th July 2011.

Please visit the programme’s website: http://www.sps.ed.ac.uk/said

For any queries about the programme, please contact Professor Patricia Jeffery: pjeffery@staffmail.ed.ac.uk