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Postgraduate Certificate in Global Development Management - Learning Outcomes

Educational aims

  • To provide a grounding in the basic concepts and frameworks of global development management.
  • To develop capabilities in the basic tools and skills of development management.
  • To enable you to reflect on and improve your own development practice.

Learning outcomes

This qualification provides opportunities for you to develop and demonstrate knowledge and understanding, qualities, skills and other attributes in the following areas

Knowledge and understanding

On completion of this certificate you will be able to demonstrate knowledge and understanding of the following:

  • the different conceptualisations of development and its management in theory and practice;
  • key concepts and theories that reveal development management as a process that is personal, political and professional
  • tools, methods and frameworks for investigation and analysis aimed at informing development policy and practice.

Cognitive skills

On completion of this certificate you will be able to demonstrate your ability to:

  • critically analyse the theory and practice of development management
  • critically analyse the contexts, processes and outcomes of development, and the relationships by means of which interventions are undertaken
  • think strategically and creatively about development policy and practice
  • appreciate your own standpoint and the standpoint of others with respect to development management theory, policy and practice

Practical and/or professional skills

On completion of this certificate you will be able to demonstrate your ability to:

  • use mapping skills to organise and share thinking and action with respect to development interventions
  • make ethical and political judgments with respect to development interventions
  • work collaboratively to explore and help resolve development management issues
  • produce a theoretically-informed, evidence-based report that explores and helps resolve a development management issue

Key skills

On completion of this certificate you will be able to demonstrate your ability to:

  • gather and make effective use of data of various sorts, from diverse sources, and from different media
  • develop and communicate theoretically informed, evidence-based arguments with respect to development management theory, policy and practice.

Teaching, learning and assessment methods

This module will be delivered on the innovative platform of FutureLearn. You may already know FutureLearn, which was founded by The Open University, for the free short courses it hosts for universities and institutions around the world. In addition to these free short courses, FutureLearn has a growing collection of full fee-paying university courses linked to undergraduate and masters-level qualifications. These fee-paying courses feature additional options and tools that aren’t available on the free courses.

You will be supported by a tutor who will guide you on many aspects of the module. They will grade and comment on your written work. You may also ask your tutor for advice and guidance. You will be taught and assessed through a combination of media, including the Internet, live discussion online, text-based discussion, email and written assignments. The module offers online tutorials. In these you’ll be able to interact with your tutor and other students using voice, visuals and text-chat.

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