Global and Development Studies

Are you passionate about understanding global development trends? Are you enthusiastic about analysing global social, political, and economic actors, relations, and institutions, including their histories and contemporary manifestations? And do you want to learn how to address these issues? Then Global and Development Studies is an MA programme for you.

Global and Development Studies offers cutting-edge academic training in analysing, assessing, and addressing current global changes and how they affect people’s lives around the world. Questions of justice, inequality, conflict, and sustainability as well as their effects on states, markets, and civil society will be central to your studies. 

You will acquire knowledge about global and development processes across local, national, regional, and international levels and learn how these processes are manifested differently in specific sites around the world. You will also acquire practical skills that enable you to analyse and critically reflect on issues and problems, such as climate change, conflict and peace-making, development aid, disaster management, economic transformation, human rights, inequality, mobility, social movements, and sustainability. 

The Master’s programme is interdisciplinary, combining the fields of global and development studies. It also draws on international relations, political economy, political science, sociology, and anthropology. You will meet the interdisciplinary approach in your taught classes and apply it actively in your project work. 

Mandatory study activities provide an academic common ground while elective courses allow you to pursue your specific empirical, theoretical, and methodological interests. The development of your own academic profile is particularly ensured through the project work where you and your project team of fellow students investigate a problem of your own choosing. While guided by a supervisor, you will design, prepare, and execute your project.