Postgraduate

MSc, Postgraduate Diploma/Certificate in Managing Rural Development

Structure and Syllabus

MSc: 10 modules (4 compulsory, 4 optional plus 2 research)

Postgraduate Diploma: 8 modules (4 compulsory plus 4 optional)

Postgraduate Certificate: 4 modules (at least 3 compulsory plus up to 1 optional)

Compulsory modules

Economics and institutions for development (C116) [must be taken in first year]
Rural development (C130)
Management in rural development (C131)
Gender and social development (C140)

Optional modules (four from the following)

Agricultural trade & policy (C10)

Agri-food marketing in developing countries (C138)

NGO management (C132)

Project planning and management (C134)

Socioeconomics of rural livelihoods (C35)

Water resource management (C126)

One module selected from another programme

Research modules (MSc only)

Research methods (C106)

Research Report (R01)

Module to be selected from another programme

Agricultural trade & policy (C10)
Agrifood marketing in developing countries (C38)
Agroecosystem sustainability (C83)
Animal genetic resource conservation (C96)
Applied econometrics (C05)
Applying economics in business & development (C06)
Assessing and understanding biological diversity (C91)
Biodiversity utilisation (C98)
Conservation and society (C118)
Corporate environmental management (C67)
Ecological science and management* (C100)
Economic principles (C02)
Economics of environmental policy (C21)
Entrepreneurship for the agrifood industry (C112)
Environmental auditing (C108)
Environmental ethics (C63)
Environmental impact assessment (C107)
Environmental monitoring (C71)
Environmental sociology (C69)
Environmental valuation (C22)
Financial and management accounting (C49)
Information and communication technologies for development* (C104)
International environmental law (C25)
Introduction to agricultural sustainability & development (C86)
Introduction to biodiversity conservation and management (C117)
Introduction to environmental economics & policy (C70)
Land resource conservation (C68)
Management in rural development (C31)
Marketing research techniques (C53)
Natural resource economics (C105)
NGO management (C32)
Organisational Behaviour & HRM (C47)
Plant genetic resource conservation (C95)
Policy and reform in OECD and transition economies (C15)
Political economy of public policy (C12)
Problem evaluation & solution (C62)
Project planning and management (C34)
Quantitative methods (C04)
Research methods* (C106)
Rural development (C30)
Science of environmental change (C61)
Society, gender & development (C40)
Socioeconomic research methods in rural development (C36)
Socioeconomics of rural livelihoods (C35)
Socioeconomics of sustainable development* (C102)
Strategic international marketing (C51)
Supply chain management (C111)
Sustainable development: approaches and indicators* (C101)
Sustainable development: design & innovation* (C103)
Sustainable farm management (C84)
Sustainable forest management (C85)
Water resource management (C26)

Short courses

Modules can also be taken as short courses for professional development or as a taster of the full degree, diploma or certificate programme. In 2009 the cost of taking a module as a short course is £925.