45 Distance Learning Degrees in Development Studies 2024
Global Development Challenges (Online Learning) PgCert (ICL), PgCert
The University of Edinburgh Online
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- Online
Part time
1 year
Distance Learning
English
This is a part-time, online programme taking a multidisciplinary approach to understanding the issues around international development and developing your capacity to address them. Delivered through online distance learning, this Postgraduate Certificate programme - which can be combined to form an MSc degree - offers you an innovative route to gaining understanding and skills to address the complex, interrelated problems facing the world today.
- Möckern, Germany
Part time
6 semesters
Distance Learning
English
The MA in Development Studies has a specific focus on development studies and issues around global justice. It aims at professionalizing those already working in development or others for whom an e-learning program seems more fitting. It offers a solid academic base in the field of development studies. Students learn about relevant theories that are necessary to critically reflect on current practices in the field of development aid. Practical competencies are furthered through courses such as project planning, monitoring, and evaluation. Academic competencies in research methods and writing skills enable a continuation in a scientific career. Stemming from the diversity of the student body, the specific worth of the program lies in the opportunity to literally assess international issues through virtual co-learning with students from across the globe.
- Online
Part time
2 years
Distance Learning
English
The MSc in International Development programme offers you an unparalleled opportunity to deepen your understanding and engagement with the most pressing challenges confronting people, communities and institutions in the Global South. This programme builds and strengthens critical skills for analysing these development processes and inequities, exploring development issues in a range of different social, historical and political contexts. It is multidisciplinary in nature and it aims to provide you with a rigorous grounding in major debates, theories and critical concepts as well as proficiency in applying these to investigate contemporary development challenges, policy processes, and initiatives.
- Malmö, Sweden
Part time
2 years
Distance Learning
English
Communication for Development (ComDev) is an interdisciplinary field combining studies on culture, media, communication, and development. ComDev explores communication within contexts of articulating global and local processes of social change. This is a half-time study program, combining courses on culture, communication, and development and integrating them with practical fieldwork. It explores the use of communication - both as a tool and as a way of expressing processes of social change - within the context of globalization.
MA in Development Studies and Diplomacy (Hybrid & Online Formats) (UNITAR)
University for Peace
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- Ciudad Colón, Costa Rica
Full time, Part time
2 semesters
Blended, Distance Learning
English
The Master of Arts in Development Studies and Diplomacy is an interdisciplinary and holistic program that will not only broaden student’s knowledge in the field of development studies, sustainability, and diplomacy but it will also equip them with the required soft skills for a successful international career in any of these areas of expertise. It is offered both online and in a hybrid format on the UPEACE campus in Costa Rica. During this program, students will analyze the different dimensions of development including, environmental, social, economic, and human dimensions as well as the theory and practice of diplomacy in the 21st century. Students will also attend skills development sessions that are designed to support their professional careers and employability. Careers in this field can be very broad. Prospective employers include governments, international organizations, development agencies, academia, and the private sector.
M.A. in Development Studies and Diplomacy (in partnership with UPEACE)
The United Nations Institute for Training and Research (UNITAR)
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- San José, Costa Rica
Full time
4 semesters
Blended, Distance Learning
English
The Master of Arts in Development Studies and Diplomacy is an interdisciplinary and holistic program that will not only broaden student’s knowledge in the field of development studies, sustainability, and diplomacy but it will also equip them with the required soft skills for a successful international career in any of these areas of expertise. It is offered both online and face-to-face on the UPEACE campus in Costa Rica. During this program, students will analyze the different dimensions of development including, environmental, social, economic, and human dimensions as well as the theory and practice of diplomacy in the 21st century. Students will also attend skills development sessions that are designed to support their professional careers and employability. Careers in this field can be very broad. Prospective employers include governments, international organizations, development agencies, academia, and the private sector.
- Ciudad Colón, Costa Rica
Full time
33 weeks
Distance Learning
English
The Certificate in Development Studies and Diplomacy is an interdisciplinary and holistic program that will not only broaden student’s knowledge in the field of development studies, sustainability, and diplomacy but it will also equip them with the required soft skills for a successful international career in any of these areas of expertise.
- London, United Kingdom
Full time, Part time
1 year
Distance Learning
English
The MSc International Development builds on the established global reputation of the Development Studies department as one of the top places in the world to study international development. We welcome applications from those who have worked in development, however broadly defined, but also from students without relevant work experience who can demonstrate a strong interest in, and understanding of, issues pertaining to international development. International Development is a dynamic field concerned not only with processes of change in the Global South but also of social, economic, political and cultural change in middle-income countries and the Global North. The perspective of International Development analyses these processes as interdependent and engages major policy challenges as well as efforts to overcome poverty and insecurity while also presenting a structural analysis. This programme provides a solid interdisciplinary social science formation in the political economy and sociology of development and develops students’ capacities for independent and critical analysis.
BA in Human and Organizational Development
Virginia Commonwealth University, School of Education
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- Richmond, USA
Full time, Part time
2 years
Blended, Distance Learning
English
The B.A. in Human and Organizational Development prepares undergraduate students to pursue entry-level positions in organizations as human resource development professionals, corporate training and development, training specialists, learning and development professionals, talent development specialists, and instructional designers.
- Online United Kingdom
Full time
2 years
Distance Learning
English
This postgraduate diploma provides an advanced grounding in the key theories, approaches and issues that are shaping contemporary global development. Drawing on important social science ideas, it introduces a conceptual framework for making sense of development and employs this in examining six major issues: migration, socio-economic security, environmental sustainability, technological innovation, the global politics of development, and the politics of doing development. You’ll also have the opportunity to deepen your knowledge and understanding of the issue or issues of most interest to you by exploring them through four cross-cutting challenges: conflict, governance, justice, and transformation. The diploma, therefore, enables you to identify and pursue your own interests in development while also enhancing your skills of critical thinking and independent learning and investigation.
Performance Coaching and Development (Online Learning) MSc, PgCert, PgDip
The University of Edinburgh Online
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- Online
Full time
2 years
Distance Learning
English
This unique online MSc in Performance Coaching and Development has been designed for practising coaches, coach developers and associated professionals who want to extend their knowledge and understanding of coaching and coach development in the workplace. Our MSc in Performance Coaching and Development has been developed to complement the work of and develop active coaches, coach developers and associated professionals to provide evidence-informed support in their workplace.
MS in Human Development and Family Science - Youth Development
North Dakota State University - Graduate School
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- Fargo, USA
Full time
2 years
Distance Learning
English
The Human Development and Family Science Youth Development M.S. option requires 36 credits and is offered fully online.
- Online United Kingdom
Full time, Part time
2 years
Distance Learning
English
The MSc in Global Development is an innovative, interdisciplinary and flexible course that equips you with the knowledge and skills to understand, investigate and respond to the key development issues of our times. You'll critically examine development theory, policy and practice across a range of contexts and you'll have the opportunity to explore six major issues: migration, socio-economic security, environmental sustainability, technological innovation, the global politics of development, and the politics of doing development. You’ll also deepen your understanding of the issues of most interest to you by examining them through four cross-cutting challenges: conflict, governance, justice, and transformation. This will lay the foundation for undertaking your own independent research project on a development topic of your choice. Overall, the MSc will enable you to build in-depth knowledge and understanding of key development issues, ideas and debates as well as an advanced capacity for critical and reflexive thinking, independent study and research, and collective dialogue and action.
- Online United Kingdom
Full time
1 year
Distance Learning
English
In this postgraduate certificate, you'll explore historical and contemporary theories about global development and critically examine their role in shaping development policy and practice. It will provide you with an in-depth understanding of key development issues, such as migration, environmental sustainability and the global politics of development, and encourage you to reflect on ways to engage with development issues at different scales. You will be introduced to a conceptual framework to help analyse and understand global development in a multitude of contexts, drawing on a range of case study material. In the process, you will enhance your skills in critical thinking, working with evidence, and presenting arguments using a variety of techniques and media.
- London, United Kingdom
Full time, Part time
1 year
Distance Learning
English
This MSc (or PGDip/PGCert) in Climate Change and Development is an online programme. Climate change is the most significant challenge to achieving sustainable development globally, threatening current patterns of growth and poverty reduction whilst creating global injustice and vulnerability. Yet we are well placed with the knowledge and solutions to simultaneously tackle the crisis, meet the Sustainable Development Goals and improve the lives of people all over the world. Businesses, governments, development agencies and NGOs alike now seek to integrate low-carbon and climate-resilient approaches into their work. The Climate Change and Development programme equips students with a grounding in the conceptual and practical dimensions of mitigation of and adaptation to climate change as they relate to development issues.