Postgraduate Certificate in Global Development Management
Online United Kingdom
Postgraduate Certificate
DURATION
9 months
LANGUAGES
English
PACE
Full time
APPLICATION DEADLINE
EARLIEST START DATE
TUITION FEES
GBP 3,320 *
STUDY FORMAT
Distance Learning
* total cost
Key Summary
The world is at a turning point with humanity facing unprecedented Global Challenges. This postgraduate certificate in global development management critically engages with the complex and contested policies and practices of ‘development’ whilst helping you build the core knowledge and capacities you need to analyse, evaluate and manage humanity’s efforts to bring about positive change.
Building on the global agenda for sustainable development, it assumes that development management is a political and ethical process, a matter of the use of power to bring about desired goals in contexts characterised by conflicts of interests, values, and agendas. You will learn a range of skills needed by a development manager or practitioner to do with strategic thinking, research, advocacy, planning, policy-making and evaluation.
Key features of the course
- Explores the complexity of ‘development’ locally and globally
- Critically analyses development management challenges conventional thinking and encourages the creation of better approaches
- Builds a range of understandings and skills – conceptual, professional, and practical – for managing development
- Promotes competence in using key tools that contribute to development management practice
- Makes links between academic learning and professional practice, to the benefit of both
How long it takes
Minimum - 9 months
This qualification provides opportunities for you to develop and demonstrate knowledge and understanding, qualities, skills and other attributes in the following areas
Knowledge and Understanding
On completion of this certificate you will be able to demonstrate knowledge and understanding of the following:
- The different conceptualisations of development and its management in theory and practice;
- Key concepts and theories that reveal development management as a process that is personal, political and professional
- Tools, methods and frameworks for investigation and analysis aimed at informing development policy and practice.
Cognitive skills
On completion of this certificate, you will be able to demonstrate your ability to:
- Critically analyse the theory and practice of development management
- Critically analyse the contexts, processes and outcomes of development, and the relationships by means of which interventions are undertaken
- Think strategically and creatively about development policy and practice
- Appreciate your own standpoint and the standpoint of others with respect to development management theory, policy and practice
Practical and/or Professional skills
On completion of this certificate, you will be able to demonstrate your ability to:
- Use mapping skills to organise and share thinking and action with respect to development interventions
- Make ethical and political judgments with respect to development interventions
- Work collaboratively to explore and help resolve development management issues
- Produce a theoretically informed, evidence-based report that explores and helps resolve a development management issue
Key skills
On completion of this certificate, you will be able to demonstrate your ability to:
- Gather and make effective use of data of various sorts, from diverse sources, and different media
- Develop and communicate theoretically informed, evidence-based arguments with respect to development management theory, policy and practice.
To gain this qualification, you need 60 credits from the following:
Compulsory module
- Global development in practice (D890)
You should note that the University’s unique study rule applies to this qualification. This means that you must include at least 20 credits from OU modules that have not been counted in any other OU qualification that has previously been awarded to you.
Managers working in development contexts need the ability to appreciate the diversity and complexity of these contexts and the capacity to bring about good change. They also need the capacity to understand their own role and the roles of others in bringing about change that works.
The module in this certificate provides a historical, interdisciplinary and international framework for analysing the contexts in which development interventions take place and a set of skills for planning, implementing and evaluating those interventions. They equip practitioners to make more effective contributions to the policy and practice of their organisations.