Overview

REGULATIONS FOR THE MASTER OF ARTS DEGREE IN DEVELOPMENT PRACTICE (AH17)

Duration:                                               18 months

Actual Credit Load:                                    330

Minimum Credit Load:                               270

Maximum Credit Load:                              330

MBK Credit Load:                                     250

ZNQF Level:                                              9

 

  1.             PURPOSE OF PROGRAMME

The Master of Development Practice (MDP) programme prepares professionals for careers in sustainable development.  It seeks to establish, sharpen and polish among MDP graduates, the technical knowledge and skills required to drive development locally, nationally and globally. It offers a strategic blend of theory and practice, with a strong emphasis on practice. This is in a bid to equip MDP graduates with knowledge, skills, and competencies essential for appropriate and effective engagement with stakeholders to address society’s complex sustainable development challenges. MDP centres on engagement whereby students are taught to undertake inquiry and take action based on real development challenges faced in local and global settings. The programme is equally designed to produce practitioners and particularly, managers who have the technical skills and drive to formulate, grow and sustain thriving development entities and processes in the corporate, non-governmental and state spheres. It seeks to ensure that graduates will have the skills required to design and manage viable development programmes. Broadly, MDP thus fosters the integration of knowledge and practice that is necessary to address the grand and systemic development challenges confronting society and development practitioners today.

  1.             ENTRY REQUIREMENTS
  •   To qualify for enrolment into this programme, prospective students should have attained an Honours Degree in Development Studies, Development Practice or a related Social Science and Humanities discipline. 
  •   Exceptions may be made for potential candidates who do not have the requisite programmes for entry but have traceable and ample experience at the management level in the world of development practice.
  1.             PROGRAMME CHARACTERISTICS

The programme is offered on a module basis, with a project paper submitted in partial fulfilment of the requirements of the programme.

Career Opportunities

Programme Structure