Global Development with a Placement Year

Overview
The world urgently needs a new generation to help tackle global challenges like inequality, conflict, sustainability, and social justice. If you’re ready to make a difference, our BA in Global Development with a Placement Year will equip you with the knowledge and skills to drive meaningful change.

From day one, you’ll work alongside research-active lecturers to explore the lasting impacts of colonial and imperial legacies. You’ll uncover why partnerships between the Global South and Global North are essential for fair and just development and learn how to challenge power structures that drive inequality on local, national, and global scales.

You’ll explore how cross-cultural dialogues, resistance, mobilisation, and social action can achieve greater social and environmental justice and how people in different parts of the world shape development. You'll be encouraged to expand your understanding of diverse perspectives on development and experiment with action-driven research methods.

At UEA, you’ll be joining one of the UK’s longest established and most prestigious undergraduate Global Development courses. Our School of Global Development (DEV) is a vibrant community of interdisciplinary academics and 1st in the UK for Development Studies (REF 2021). You’ll connect to our exciting global development networks through our work placement programme. Recent destinations for work placements include Uganda, Peru, Thailand, Ghana, Cambodia, Belgium, Tanzania, and Cyprus, where students have joined educational, health, and environmental organisations.

Upon graduation, you'll have the professional skills and confidence to engage in critical global development debates. Whether you aspire to be a researcher, policymaker, NGO worker, activist, entrepreneur, filmmaker, writer, or teacher, a degree in Global Development will open doors to many rewarding careers. If you’d like a taster, check out our free Future Learn course.

Disclaimer
Course details are subject to change. You should always confirm the details on the provider's website: www.uea.ac.uk

Located in the UK’s best place to live (Sunday Times, BBC), The University of East Anglia’s stunning and vibrant Norwich campus is home to many. Offering a wide variety of subjects, staff work hard to support and encourage students to be their best selves. Outside of the classroom, find your people at one or many of UEA's societies and clubs. Accommodation is guaranteed with Clearing offers.

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