Undergraduate at DAAD – Bourses d’étude Allemagne 2019

The course provides the student with the necessary tools to deal with practical problems of managing development programmes and projects. Elements of the curriculum are:

• An introduction to relevant theories in social science and economics
• Methods of empirical social research and project cycle management
• The application of theoretical and methodological knowledge

During their first semester, students are given an interdisciplinary intro-duction to relevant theories and strategies of development. Students will learn about actors in international development cooperation and the role of institutions in development and will be faced with relevant case studies. In consultation with the course coordinator, students will select a research problem related to a development programme or project as the starting point for their MA thesis project. This...