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MA Development Practices
Program Description :Established 2013, this Program aims to train students to assess and develop integrated methods of promoting sustainable development. In partnership with Columbia University’s Institute in Jordan, this Program provides a framework through which to address this preventable human suffering and ensure "meeting the needs of the present without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their own needs" (Brundlandt Commission, 1987). The Development Practices Program will analyze policies and programs of poverty alleviation and development policies and practices. This Program uses an interdisciplinary approach that equips students with necessary methodological and research skills for promoting sustainable development. The program aims to build national capacity for local and regional sustainable development through research and application of research. The program focuses on perspectives and theories of development policies and procedures, sustainability, and economic issues related to human development. With this major, students will be able to compete at an international level as well as contribute to the research and applied fields of sustainable development.
Program Type :Postgraduate
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Program Department :International Development