BA (Hons) International Development With NGO Management (With Foundation Year)

This extended course is perfect if you want a degree in International Development with NGO Management, but you don’t have the standard entry requirements. First, we prepare you for your degree during the Foundation year, bringing you up to speed with academic skills and a firm grounding in the subject. Then you can go on to do the full undergraduate degree. You’ll find out how social development is affecting the people who live in the world’s poorest countries? You’ll learn about globalization and consider its impact on the people of Africa, Asia, Latin America, the Caribbean, the Middle East, and Europe.  And you’ll explore the way NGOs work to address issues of poverty and whether there’s value in their work. You’ll have the chance to study for a term overseas. Recently students have studied in South Africa, Brazil, Thailand, and at the American University in Cairo. In your third year, you will undertake a supported work placement with an NGO.

Foundation Year(If Required)

• Knowledge, Skills, Practice and the Self: Professional Life: Mental Wealth (Core)
• Exploring Communities as Social Scientists (Core)
• Researching Changing Communities (Core)
• Reimagining the Work of a Social Scientist (Core)
• Crime, Justice, and Surveillance (Core)
• Reading the Body Psychosocially (Core)
• Introduction to Digital Sociology (Core)
• Globalization & Society (Core)

Year 1

• Knowledge, Skills, Practice and the Self (Mental Wealth) (Core)
• Introduction to Development Studies (Core)
• Global Political Economy (Core)
• Introduction to NGO Management (Core)
• The Mess We Are In (And How We Got Here) (Core)
• International Relations (Core)

Year 2

• Alternative Approaches to Development (Mental Wealth) (Core)
• Space, Bodies, and Power (Core)
• Social Entrepreneurship (Core)
• Research Methods (Core)
• Inequalities and Social Change (Core)
• Global Governance (Optional)
• Human Mobility and Forced Migration (Optional)

Optional Placement Year

This course offers the opportunity for year-long placement between years two and three. If you choose to take this option, you’ll spend your third year on a placement with a relevant company or organization, adding valuable practical experience to your growing academic knowledge. The extra placement year means it will take four years to complete your studies, instead of three.

Year 3

• Mental Wealth: NGO Placement Reflections (Core)
• Applied Research Project in Social Sciences (Core)
• African Politics and Development (Optional)
• Conflict Intervention and Development (Optional)
• Gender, Power and Politics (Optional)
• Global Political Ecology (Optional)
• Constructions of Race (Optional)
• Gender Studies (Optional)
• Culture, Media and Politics (Optional)

Employability

Having undertaken a work placement in an NGO, you’ll have the knowledge and hands-on experience that employers seek. While there is no pressure on you to know your career path when you start the course, a range of exciting options will be open to you when you graduate. From moving into communications within the not-for-profit sector to becoming a campaign in fundraising agencies, our graduates have taken on a variety of roles in the UK and abroad. Others have established NGOs and charities of their own, including the Children of Congo Foundation, which provides education for street children, and the Otra Cosa Network, which supports communities in northern Peru through life-changing, affordable volunteering. Your placement will give you the opportunity to meet and impress professionals in the field. You’ll develop an invaluable network of contacts who will have seen your work at close quarters. Many of the students on this course find their first job after graduation through this route. We organize events each year to introduce you to development specialists and practitioners, including our own alumni.