MS DEVELOPMENT STUDIES
Course Curriculum
| CORE COURSES | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sr.No | Course Code | Subjects | Credit Hours | Related SDG | Pre Requisite |
| 1 | DVST-801 | Theory and Concepts in Development Studies | 3+0 | ||
| 2 | DVST-802 | Social Research: Methodology, Ethics, and Design | 3+0 | ||
| 3 | DVST-804 | Social Policy for Development | 3+0 | ||
| 4 | DVST-803 | South Asia: State and Security Challenges to Development | 3+0 | ||
| 5 | DVST-805 | Trade vs. Aid: The Political Economy of Globalization | 3+0 | ||
| 6 | DVST-899 | MS Thesis | 6+0 | ||
| ELECTIVE COURSES (CLIMATE CHANGE AND DEVELOPMENT) | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sr.No | Course Code | Subjects | Credit Hours | Related SDG | Pre Requisite |
| 1 | DVST-832 | Global Resource Politics | 3+0 | ||
| 2 | DVST-831 | Climate Change | 3+0 | ||
| 3 | DVST-833 | Course in either GIS or Remote Sensing | 3+0 | ||
| ELECTIVE COURSES (GENERAL ELECTIVES) | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sr.No | Course Code | Subjects | Credit Hours | Related SDG | Pre Requisite |
| 1 | DVST-846 | Gender and Development | 3+0 | ||
| 2 | PCS-904 | Conflict and Conflict Resolution | 3+0 | ||
| 3 | PCS-920 | Conflict, Security and Development | 3+0 | ||
| 4 | PCS-921 | Peace, Multilateralism and the UN | 3+0 | ||
| 5 | DVST-855 | Globalization and Food Security | 3+0 | ||
| 6 | DVST-852 | Environmental Policy and Planning | 3+0 | ||
| 7 | DVST-847 | Rural Development and Agrarian Change | 3+0 | ||
| 8 | DVST-849 | Project Management | 3+0 | ||
| 9 | DVST-842 | Migration and Development | 3+0 | ||
| 10 | DVST-850 | Population and Development | 3+0 | ||
| 11 | DVST-851 | Environmental Science for Sustainable Development | 3+0 | ||
| 12 | DVST-848 | Cities and Development | 3+0 | ||
| 13 | MC-837 | Conflict Peace & Media | 3+0 | ||
| 14 | DVST-856 | Remote Sensing | 3+0 | 4, 9 | |
| 15 | DVST-857 | Geographic Information Systems | 3+0 | ||
| ELECTIVE COURSES (PEACE, CONFLICT, AND DEVELOPMENT) | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sr.No | Course Code | Subjects | Credit Hours | Related SDG | Pre Requisite |
| 1 | DVST-813 | Participation, Power, and Social Change | 3+0 | ||
| 2 | DVST-812 | Conflict and Development | 3+0 | ||
| 3 | DVST-811 | The Politics of Development | 3+0 | ||
| ELECTIVE COURSES (SINOLOGY STREAM) | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sr.No | Course Code | Subjects | Credit Hours | Related SDG | Pre Requisite |
| 1 | HU-331 | Development Experience of China | 3+0 | 1,8 | |
| 2 | DVST-860 | Pakistan-China Relations: CPEC & Future Trajectory | 3+0 | ||
| 3 | DVST-861 | Chinese Culture and Soft Power | 3+0 | ||
| 4 | DVST-862 | Public Policy Formulation and Governance in China | 3+0 | ||
| 5 | DVST-863 | China’s Poverty Alleviation Program | 3+0 | ||
| 6 | DVST-864 | China’s Environment Program | 3+0 | ||
| 7 | DVST-865 | Chinese Language Level-I & II | 3+0 | ||
| ELECTIVE COURSES (SOCIAL WORK AND COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT) | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sr.No | Course Code | Subjects | Credit Hours | Related SDG | Pre Requisite |
| 1 | DVST-822 | Community Mobilization | 3+0 | ||
| 2 | DVST-821 | Theories and Models in Social Work | 3+0 | ||
| 3 | DVST-823 | Gender and Society | 3+0 | ||
| Additional Courses | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sr.No | Course Code | Subjects | Credit Hours | Related SDG | Pre Requisite |
| 1 | RM-898 | Research Methodology | 2+0 | 4 | |
| 2 | SEM/WKSP-897 | Seminar / Workshop | 1+0 | 4,17 | |