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Teaching languageEnglish
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Study startSep or Feb
Introduction to the programme
Global and Development Studies offers you cutting-edge academic training in analysing, assessing, and addressing current global changes and how they affect people’s lives around the world. Mounting questions of conflict and peace, inequality, sustainability and justice as well as their effects on states, markets, and civil society will be central to your studies. During the programme you shape your own academic profile through elective course work and collaborative project work where you and your project teammates decide which precise research question to scrutinize and how to do it.
The master’s programme is interdisciplinary combining the fields of global studies and development studies as well as drawing on international relations, political economy, political science, sociology, and anthropology. You will encounter the interdisciplinary approach in your classes and use it actively in your project work. This way you acquire cutting-edge problem-solving skills that are essential for addressing the challenges of today’s increasingly complex, transboundary problems.
At Global and Development Studies you will become part of a culturally and linguistically diverse study environment which will equip you with essential social competences for pursuing a career in an international context. Our campus is designed to accommodate not only lectures and seminars, but also the important project work that you do in teams of typically four teammates. Studying can be a very individual endeavour. But at Roskilde University it is a collective effort. You will develop close collaborations with your fellow students and the faculty.
Study environment
Being a student at Global and Development Studies involves many activities. You attend lectures and seminars, prepare readings, have study groups discussions, complete exercises. You do project work in teams. The project work involves several steps (designing, executing, analysing, reporting, presenting) each of which involves discussions and decisions. During the process you receive supervision and discuss your work with other teams. You may also prepare an internship stay, engage in extracurricular student activities, or attend academic or social events arranged by faculty members or fellow students.
Career
Global problem solvers are employed in private companies, the public sector, international organisations, NGOs, and more. Tasks commonly involve preparing and conducting analyses and evaluations, coordinating initiatives, and giving advice. Job titles include:
- Policy analyst (private company)
- Head of section (EU/international team) (ministry)
- Public affairs consultant (private public relations company)
- Policy advisor on peace and security (UN)
- International financial officer (international relief organisation)
- Business continuity specialist (private company)
- Foreign service officer (embassy)
- International project manager (NGO)
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Facts about the programme
Degree: Master of Science in Social Sciences in Global and Development Studies
Teaching language: English
Study start: First study start will be September 2022. Global and Development Studies has two annual study starts (February and September).
An example of a Study Programme
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1. Semester | 2. Semester | 3. Semester | 4. Semester |
Course Foundation Course in Global and Development Studies 10 ECTS |
Course
Current Global and Development Challenges and Solutions 10 ECTS |
Choose A, B or C
3. semester A Courses Current Global and Development Challenges and Solutions 10 ECTS Policy Analysis 5 ECTS Advanced Methods Course 5 ECTS Project Current Global and Development Challenges Project 10 ECTS or 3. semester B Courses Current Global and Development Challenges and Solutions 10 ECTS Policy Analysis or Advanced Methods Course 5 ECTS Internship Project-oriented Internship 15 ECTS or 3. semester C Internship Project-oriented Internship 30 ECTS |
Master thesis
30 ECTS |
Course
Project Management and Evaluation 5 ECTS |
Course
Power, Conflict and Justice 5 ECTS |
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Course
Sustainability, Development and Inequality 5 ECTS |
Course
Advanced Methods Course 5 ECTS |
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Project
Project linked to Sustainability, Development and Inequality 10 ECTS |
Project
Project in Economic and Social Contestation 10 ECTS |
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Note that the above is an example of a recommended course of study. Individual students’ courses, projects, internships and accredited study abroad may vary in relation to the above.
* If you begin your studies in the spring semester, the bottom 20 ECTS of 1st and 2nd semester will be swapped around.

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