MSc Social Policy and Development (Non-Governmental Organisations)

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• Do you want to know more about how NGOs work in the field of international development?
• Are you interested in issues of civil society, global social transformation, development and social justice?
• Do you want to know how to improve your own NGO's performance?

Since 1995, the LSE has provided innovative postgraduate training for those working with, or interested in, the world of non-governmental organisations (NGOs) and development.

Today, the NGO sector needs to be able to assess and develop its roles and it requires a new level of expertise to meet the increasingly complex goals of development and relief work. NGOs are now being expected to deliver projects and programmes more and more effectively as well as to contribute to a healthy 'civil society'.

From 2012-13, we are upgrading our provision with the launch of the new MSc Social Policy and Development: Non-Governmental Organisations. The degree is taught by a team of leading researchers in the field, each of whom has both research and hands on policy experience.

Located in the LSE's Department of Social Policy (rated the UK's top department in the Research Assessment Exercise), the new MSc Degree focuses on key issues such as the changing context of development policy, NGO organizational issues and the theory and practice of civil society.

Programme structure

Please refer to the LSE Calendar| to access current course guides, which include preliminary reading lists. Please note that the current Calendar information is for the 2011/12 academic session and may be subject to change in 2012/13. Not all options will be available every year and the choice of options may be constrained by timetable limitations.

Please refer to the Department Index of courses| for information about course suspension, withdrawal and capping (limited places) in 2012/13 as it becomes available.

* half course unit

Compulsory courses

• Social Policy and Development: Core Concepts*
• Dissertation – NGOs and Development

Options

Courses to the value of two full units from the following

• Social Development: Policy and Practice* †
• Poverty*
• Complex Emergencies*
• Urbanisation and Social Policy in the Global South*
• Foundations of Health Policy*
• Demography of the Developing World*
• Basic Education for Social Development*
• Globalisation and Social Policy*
• Health and Population in Developing and Transitional Societies*
• Rural Development and Social Policy*
• Globalisation, Gender and Development
• International Housing and Human Settlements*
• Cities and Social Change in East Asia*
• Development, Diaspora and Migration*
• Behavioural Public Policy*
• The Economics of European Social Policy*
• Any other option within the Department of Social Policy
• An outside option (with permission)

† Students who choose this optional course will be required to take part in a residential workshop at Cumberland Lodge and this will cost £200

Contacts

• Programme Administrator:
  Dianne Josephs, d.e.josephs@lse.ac.uk
• Programme Director:
  Armine Ishkanian, a.ishkanian@lse.ac.uk