Global Development and Humanitarian Practice

Your learning will be grounded in theory, case studies and field based experience. You will develop intellectual knowledge and cultivate academic skills including:

• synthesis
• analysis
• interpretation
• understanding
• judgement.

You will focus on your approach as a practitioner. Particular reference is made to:

• the setting in which you work - for example poverty, conflict, power and vulnerability
• the approaches you adopt - for example community mobilisation, aid and human rights advocacy
• yourself - the personal motivations that drive and shape your vocation, personality and temperament

You will become a more self-aware, knowledge-based practitioner, able to work flexibly around a variety of problems in different situations. These include poverty, armed conflict and disaster.

Our assessments are designed to strengthen your academic learning and to give you important practice and employability skills. Our students design, run and evaluate human rights campaigns and write policy briefs to the UN and other organisations.

Your assessments will be diverse, and will support different learning styles - you’ll have a real opportunity to showcase your strengths. Your learning may be assessed by a combination of individual or group coursework, examinations, and presentations. The assessment methods chosen will be based on your learning needs, individual aims and the academic standards expected for the course.

The course offers several field trip options each year. These usually take place in late January before the beginning of Semester 2.

Past field trip locations have included:

• Asia (India, Thailand, Cambodia, Philippines)
• Latin America (Peru, Colombia)
• Middle East (West Bank)
• Europe (Bosnia, Northern Ireland)
• Africa (South Africa)
• The Caribbean (Jamaica).

Please note that field trips are an additional cost to the course fee, to reflect the fact that some students prefer not to take up this option.