This master's offers a comprehensive overview of social development, combining academic and theoretical perspectives with more practical and policy-focused approaches. Key themes include vulnerability and social exclusion, poverty, gender relations and mainstreaming, and social analysis. We pay particular attention to issues such as social equality, education, migration, health provision and policy, the implications of the HIV/AIDS pandemic and the role of civil society. The MA International Social Development degree combines social theory and analysis with more practical and policy-focused approaches. Students learn concepts to analyse social development and social change; and will often apply this analysis to development interventions and practice. A range of optional seminars and workshops are offered during your master's programme for the teaching and strengthening of student skills.