The MA Development Practice is a new interdisciplinary degree focusing on the key management and strategic challenges that development faces. It will provide students with a solid conceptual understanding of key debates and issues in international development, combined with technical skills in project design and management. It will appeal to students wishing to start or advance a career in development and humanitarian management. It offers a full introduction to the way the sector works, from planning to critical issues affecting the sector. Over the year and the two core modules, students will develop an increasingly rigorous and deep critique of both the ways the NGOs and other agencies work, and the political contexts of development. Recent decades have seen shifts in the way NGOs and other organisations in the sector operate, and this course is designed to provide students with critical perspectives on these changes, and equip them with tools for contributing to the way forward.