Rural Development and Communication

Master of Management of Development

 



Content programme

 

Course structure

 

 

 

This one-year course consists of 1.) a nine-month teach­ing period and 2.) a three-month research project culmi­nating in a thesis. It involves a series of competency-building modules that advance your disciplinary expertise and hone your professional skills.

 

Study load per module is expressed in European Credits (EC). The total programme requires 1,960 study hours, and leads to the award of 70 EC.

 

The Rural Development and Communication programme consists of the following modules:

  • Introduction (4 EC)
  • Management of Development (8 EC)
  • Professional Environment (13 EC)
  • Management and Planning (4 EC)
  • Communication and Innovation (8 EC)
  • Learning and Transformation (11 EC)
  • Research and Thesis (22 EC)

 

  

rural development and communication with persons and women and children

 

 

 

Course content

 

  • Introduction. This focuses on study and personal development competences.
  • Management of Development. After an introduction to Development Theories, this module conducts a Visual Problem Appraisal (VPA) - a simulation of a consultancy assignment in which stakeholder consultation is essential to the analysis and framing of a complex multi-disciplinary problem.
  • Professional Environment. This module analyses your development organisation in its institutional context - i.e.

its clients, and stakeholders such as government, NGOs, and community-based organisations. You also receive training in management, communication and leadership competences.

  • Management and Planning. This includes project-cycle management, financial management, and gender analysis &planning.
  • Five specialisation modules:

- Foundations of learning and transformation,

- Planning and management of training and facilitation,

- Media design and media management,

- Communication and innovation studies,

- Public participation & knowledge circulation.

  • Research and Thesis project. After examining the role of research in addressing human needs, this module outlines

1.) the design of research projects,

2.) research types and tools, and

3.) the interpretation of research output.

These activities are followed by a 12-week period in which you write a thesis. This is likely to focus on one of the following themes:

- the consequences of policy changes to management and organisational issues,

- communication and innovation,

- extension,

- staff development and transformation.

Similarly, it might also examine ways in which specific policies and interventions could be influenced.

 

 

rural development and communication with buildings and house in jungle

 

Competences

 

At graduation, you will have developed the following competences:

  • the ability to analyse stakeholders' interests and needs and outline policies that lead to social change and participation,
  • the ability to design processes and strategiesthat facilitate communication and knowledge sharing,
  • the ability to transform traditional extension policyand practice and develop new approaches to communication and innovation,
  • the ability to design and facilitate effective, appropriate and exciting learning environments.

 

 

 


rural development and communication and landscape with jungle and suspension bridge