Master of International Development and Environmental Analysis

Course code: 3086 + Course abbreviation: MIDEA + Total credit points required: 72 + 1.5 years full-time, 3 years part-time

Study mode and course location

On-campus (Clayton)

Course description

This course is an interdisciplinary initiative of the faculty. It is aimed at students from a wide range of disciplinary backgrounds who wish to pursue careers or enhance their professional skills in the fields of international development and environmental sustainability. It takes an innovative interdisciplinary approach based on contemporary concerns with the processes, theories, and practices of globalisation. The course introduces students to international and comparative perspectives and approaches to development and global sustainability by focusing on contemporary processes such as global production systems, foreign direct investment, natural resource management and development, devolution of governance during a time of centralisation of geopolitical power, global climate change, and changing concepts of property in natural resource exploitation and management. It seeks to encourage critical and comparative analysis of international development policies and practice, and to promote active engagement in sustainable development in transnational and regional contexts.

Minimum pass grade

To graduate with the Masters, students must gain a credit (60 C) or above in core units and a minimum credit average overall.

Course structure

Students complete 72 points, comprising a set of core units (36 points) and elective units (36 points):

Core units

IDA4140 Urbanisation and regional development in the Inde-Pacific rim (6 points)
IDA4230 Research and analysis in political ecology (6 points)
IDA5130 Environmental revolutions (6 points)
IDA5220 The art and business of international development (6 points)
IDA5310 Final project in M.IDEA (internship-based client project) (12 points), or IDA5400 Supervised research paper in IDEA (independent research paper on international development and environmental analysis) (12 points)

Electives

Students can choose electives (36 points) in one of five areas of concentration that correspond to current issues relevant in international development:

sustainable development and natural resource management
urban and regional sustainability
gender, culture, society in the Asia-Pacific
democracy, governance and civil society
development and environmental economics.

A wide range of elective units are available in sociology, women’s studies, politics, Asian studies, geography and environmental science, Indigenous studies, anthropology and visual culture.

Exit points

After successful completion of 24 points, students may apply to exit the program with a Graduate Certificate in Arts, or after successful completion of 48 points with a Graduate Diploma in International Development and Environmental Analysis.

Course coordinators

Dr Craig Thorburn and Dr Bruce Missingham

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