Several methodology courses provide students with a firm disciplinary grounding in anthropology and sociology and their application in international and development studies. These include epistemology and hermeneutics, quantitative and qualitative social science methods, ethnography, network analysis, and research design. In the first semester, students will also take a compulsory course in social theory relevant to international and development studies. Another compulsory course will aim to reflect and reinforce the programme’s transversal emphasis on gender. The remaining compulsory courses are devoted to providing a theoretical grounding in the four defining themes of the programme, while the electives offer students the opportunity to explore specific areas of interest related to them. The latter includes the possibility of obtaining the equivalent of up to 24 ECTS in the form of complementary courses from other academic units.

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