Development Studies examines development throughout the world, with its focus on developing nations. Development Studies aims to tackle some of the challenges faced by the developing world and to establish strategies to help alleviate poverty.
It is an important area of study because it looks at inequality in the world and endeavours to find solutions to improve the lives of citizens in developing countries. Getting to grips with development studies requires delving into many other disciplines including political science, economics, sociology, psychology, communication, health sciences, anthropology, geography, history, and resource and environmental science.
Development Studies is an interdisciplinary programme of study. Development Studies is concerned with expanding capabilities and opportunities for all individuals, families, communities, countries and the world at large to live free lives and to pursue choices that they value. It focuses on the role and form of markets, states and civil society, the reduction of poverty and the progress of human wellbeing.
While Development Studies is grounded in Social Sciences, its impact and application extend to technical fields such as Agriculture, Information and Communications Technologies (ICTs), Water Management, Engineering, Medicine, Business, Forestry, Climate Change, and Mining, among many others. By studying Development Studies, your expertise will be required in, among other fields, public service, private practice and non-profit organisations involved in social, economic and political change and reform, empowerment, gender mainstreaming, the redress of poverty and development communication. You will be able to design, plan, implement, monitor and evaluate development projects and programmes at local, regional, national and international levels.
To study Development Studies, you can enrol for the IIE Bachelor of Social Science degree with a study area in Development Studies, available at Emeris.
Following completion of your three-year Bachelor’s degree, you can articulate into the IIE Bachelor of Social Science Honours, and subsequently, an IIE Master of Philosophy in Arts.
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Choose the programme that matches your goals. All include practical experience and industry exposure.
Duration: 3 years full-time
Bachelor Degree
NQF Level: 7
Credits: 360
Faculty: Faculty of Humanities
Duration: 4 years part-time
Bachelor Degree
NQF Level: 7
Credits: 360
Faculty: Faculty of Humanities
Choose the programme that matches your goals. All include practical experience and industry exposure.
Duration: 1 year full-time
Honours Degree
NQF Level: 8
Credits: 120
Faculty: Faculty of Humanities
Duration: 2 years part-time
Masters
NQF Level: 9
Credits: 180
Faculty: Faculty of Humanities
If you would like to learn about how poverty, globalisation, conflict and the environment can affect a country, you may be interested in a career in Development Studies.
Obtaining a degree in this interesting and evolving field will prepare you for a career in a government agency, aid organisation, a non-profit or refugee agency. By pursuing a career in development studies, you could find yourself making a real difference in the world as you work to better communities around you.
Development Studies is a study area in the IIE Bachelor of Social Science degree or IIE Bachelor of Social Science Honours degree available at Emeris.
If you are interested in applying for the IIE Bachelor of Social Science degree, more information can be found here.
If you are interested in applying for the IIE Bachelor of Social Science Honours degree, more information can be found here.
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