MA in Community Development - International

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Overview

The Challenge
Our globally interconnected world today faces enormous challenges in addressing issues of poverty, violence, climate change and exclusion. Such issues demand practical solutions based on perspectives of participatory development and accountable governance.

Addressing these challenges requires committed professionals and leaders around the world, who are able to combine strong analysis with personal capacities to initiate and sustain change efforts in communities and organizations of civil society, local government, and development agencies.

The Master of Arts in Community Development - International (MACD-I) is based on a unique partnership between the University of Victoria and the Society for Participatory Research in Asia (PRIA), a civil society organization with three decades of experience in grassroots development.

The Program
Designed with working professionals and new graduates in mind, the MACD-I will build and develop your capacity to become a successful leader in forging social and economic change, working within, or in partnership with, development organizations. Through course work, assignments, field exposure, and interactions with students and instructors, you will explore the theory and practical learning on facilitating sustainable community development, as well as leadership and management in organizations and networks.

The MACD-I program incorporates the global strategic context, personal leadership and the organizational perspectives relevant to community development and sustainable change.

The two year program is delivered through a combination of online courses and residential sessions based at PRIA Head Office in New Delhi, India. Each of the two residential sessions is held over a two-week period in the summer terms (Term 1 and Term 4).

Students will work on a Master's project (CD 598) throughout the program and submit their Master's project report at the end. Students will apply new skills and knowledge to their ongoing Master's project which will address a real world problem faced by a development organization.

Knowledge and Skills
The program’s unique fusion of practical insights and theoretical concepts means that graduates:

• plan and manage effective projects, programs, organizations and networks based on participatory methods.
• are conversant about global trends that frame the challenges, threats and opportunities that communities, regions and sectors face.
• demonstrate initiative, innovation and leadership in identifying challenges and opportunities for their organizations.

 

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