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Teaching Development Studies and Development Management in DPPThe Open University teaches at a distance by supported open learning. Courses comprise written texts, audio-visual materials and the support of a tutor (Associate Lecturer) who guides students through the materials, conducts tutorials, marks assignments and provides feedback. There is increasing use of electronic tuition and use of online communication. Undergraduate TeachingSince its first undergraduate course in development 1983, Development Studies at the Open University has grown as an area of teaching and research, with contributions from all Faculties and a wide network of contacts and collaborators in Britain and overseas. Undergraduate Development Studies now forms a compulsory element in the BA and BSc in International Studies through the course, U213 International Development: Challenges for a World in Transition. U213 is available to anyone resident in the UK and other European Union countries, and over 500 students are registered on this course every year. As well as being a compulsory core course on the BA/BSc in International Studies , it is a designated course in degrees in Technology, Environmental Studies and Social Sciences, and a constituent course for the Diploma in Environment and Development, the Diploma in Gender and Development, and the Diploma in Health and Social Welfare. For students new to distance learning or to development issues there is an access pack called Preparing for Development. U213 can also be studied as a stand alone course. Postgraduate TeachingThe Global Development Management MSc programme (GDM) was established 1996 with support of various UK development organisations, including the UK Department for International Development, Oxfam UK and the Voluntary Service Organisation (VSO). It is a modular programme where modules can be taken on a stand alone basis, as part of a Certificate, a Diploma, or towards the MSc. It is a unique modular programme designed to meet the needs of development professionals and anyone aspiring to work in the field of development and regeneration, such as policy makers, the military and development professionals. The programme uses the Open University’s supported open learning approach, but all courses have online tuition and can be taken internationally. Students can take core development management courses as well as electives on strategy and management, social policy, conflict, environment and public action. Courses on the MSc include: TU870 Capacities for Managing Development TU871 Development: Context and Practice TU872 Institutional Development: Conflicts, Values and Meanings TU874 Development Management Project TU875 War, Intervention and Development Development Teaching TextsTextbooks written by DPP on Development are used by other university departments in the UK and overseas. Follow the link to the publishers for more detail: Research Skills for Policy and development: How to find out fast (2007) Sage Publications Civil War, Civil Peace (2006) James Currey/Ohio University Press Development and Displacement (2002) Oxford University Press Managing Development: Understanding Inter-organizational relationships (2000) Sage Publications Poverty and Development into the 21st Century (2000) Oxford University Press Finding Out Fast: Investigative Skills for Policy and Development (1998) Sage Publications The Third World Atlas (Second edition) (1997) Oxford University Press Industrialisation and Development (1992) Oxford University Press Rural Livelihoods: Crises and Responses (1992) Oxford University Press Development Policy and Public Action (1992) Oxford University Press Contact mct-edm-gdm-enquiries@open.ac.uk for more information.
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