The major focus of Development Studies (DevS) is on understanding the world of development and changes seeking to bring about improvement in people’s lives from multidisciplinary approaches to multidimensional developments. It is relatively a young area and a field of academic study within social sciences stemmed out as a result of decolonization process of 1950s and 1960s when newly independent nations tried to ‘catch up’ and also compete with the industrialized ones. Being a liberal education, it supports changes in economic, technological and socio cultural issues and their speed and impact on human civilization emanating from diverse contexts. The contexts that trigger new concerns and thereon seek the educations to workout paradigm shifts in defining development in new perspectives include global warming, economic global orders, emerging forms of transnational corporations, multiplex information sharing systems, globally connected civil society, and new global economic order. In recent decades, it has also been increasingly recognized that the quality of policy and institutional design to development needs have to be closely studied within the national realities together with their relations and impacts on transnational and multinational contexts which turn out to be the broad concerns of DevS.
Dr. Khagendra Prasad Ojha is presently leading Global College associates as Chief Executive Officer. He is also the Chairman of Kathmandu World School Bhaktapur, Valley View English School Kathmandu, Uniglobe College Kathmandu, Uniglobe Higher Secondary School Kathmandu, and Global College International (Mid-Western University affiliate). He has served as Associate Professor at Tribhuvan University, senate member of Lumbini Bouddha University and academic council member of Mid-Western University. Dr. Ojha has got Nepal Vidya Bhushan and Gold Medal for standing Nepal top position in MBA from Tribhuvan University. He has obtained Ph. D degree in Economics from University of Warsaw. Dr. Ojha has published several books and conducted research works in accounting and finance.
Dr. Drona Lal Puri is serving as Deputy Management Director of Professional Educator Ltd and Global College associates. He is also the Managing Director of Valley View English School Kathmandu, Uniglobe Higher Secondary School Kathmandu, Global College International (Mid-Western University affiliate), Global College of Technology, College of Development Studies, and Board of Director of Kathmandu World School Bhaktapur. Dr. Puri is leading the Pro-Ed Multi-purpose Cooperatives Limited Kathmandu as Chief Executive Officer. Dr. Puri has completed Ph. D. in Corporate Governance in Cooperatives in Nepal from Sinawatra University, Thailand. He has obtained master of business administration (MBA) from Tribhuvan University. Dr. Puri has participated in several international trainings and published research articles in Corporate Governance.
Dr. Dev Raj Paneru earned PhD degree in European Doctorate in Teacher Education (EDiTE) from Masaryk University, Czech Republic with a secondment from the University of Lower Silesia, Poland. As a PhD scholar at Kathmandu University School of Education, he completed all courses of educational leadership when he was selected for Expert Sustain program as a research fellow hosted by ERASMUS MUNDUS, Europe. His master degrees include; M Phil, MA, MED from Tribhuvan University. Dr. Paneru is a versatile researcher with publications of dozens of research papers in the esteemed international journals of education and management. His research interests cover academic disciplines that include; pedagogy, teacher education and learning, leadership, general management particularly organizational behavior, business communication, human resource management, education and social issues. Presently, Dr. Paneru is the Principal of Global College of Management, and the academic director of Valley View English School, Uniglobe SS/College, Global College International, and College of Development Studies,.
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Composed of multidisciplinary approach, Master in Development Studies (MDevS) is a theoretically sophisticated and empirically grounded very comprehensive research based study. Keeping with its curricular orientation that is prolifically research informed in content and areas and/or courses of study devised for MDevS, CDS has set up a well-defined and dynamic research support system that involves the students in apprenticed learning and also the conduction of field research as a regular activity. On its orientation, research has been adopted to link theoretical discourses with the field-based practices on development and so, it bears high academic significance for MDevS. At CDS, there is a research management cell in place. It functions under the guidance and leadership of senior researchers whose expertise is in diverse areas of development studies. The team of researchers who are deputed as faculty at CDS dedicate their efforts both to integrate each segment of teaching and students learning with research practices and on the same degree, their primary job is to provide research guidance to every single student for whom it is mandatory to take up research through semester studies in each course of registration in general. Nevertheless, the main and mandatory research work will be in final semester in particular. It is a 12 credit comprehensive research work that constitutes in design following all the conceptual and methodological procedures of academic research. The students are mandated to take up empirical research designed to survey, explore, examine, assess and invent ways or approaches, trends, methods, and modes relating to what, why and how of development specially seeking to understand and search paradigm shift in each area that the curriculum of this study bears its concerns. Besides research, it is mandatory for the students at CDS to conduct field study and report writing, term paper writing, case studies together with the term exams and test papers the program uses as some ways for the students to get through internal assessment procedures. The CDS faculty who are the professional researchers in their field of teaching are deputed to train their students enough to learn about research methodologies of development and social sciences that this curriculum is designed on. The students are also trained of the techniques on how to review literature as basic but essential step for designing a research concept that the academic research usually demands.
The general objective of MDevS program is to understand development as an outcome of complex social, economic and political processes at micro-and macro-level. While some of the courses theoretically explore why and how societies, regions and communities change, others focus on how governments, NGOs, international donors, and other development agencies intervene in an order to facilitate change. With the role of the state being redefined in the context of market reforms and global economic integration, this program examines how development could benefit people who otherwise remain outside the market. The course curriculum gives an equal platform to students from varied backgrounds.
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Download Course Details| Semester Sem | Course Code | Course Title | Credit Hours |
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| I | DEVS 511 | Development Theories and Approaches | 3 |
| DEVS 512 | Public Policy and Planning | 3 | |
| DEVS 513 | Development Economics | 3 | |
| DEVS 514 | Development Management | 3 | |
| DEVS 515 | Community Actions and Governance | 3 | |
| Total Credits | 15 | ||
| II | DEVS 521 | Global Environmental Change | 3 |
| DEVS 522 | Land, Agriculture and Food Security | 3 | |
| DEVS 523 | Development Project Design | 3 | |
| DEVS 524 | Poverty, Livelihood and Sustainable Development | 3 | |
| DEVS 525 | Research Methods and Statistical Procedures | 3 | |
| Total Credits | 15 | ||
| III | DEVS 611 | Research Methods - Tools and Practices | 3 |
| DEVS 612 | Gender Issues in Development | 3 | |
| DEVS 613 | Migration and Development | 3 | |
| DEVS 614 | Case Reviews and Seminars | 3 | |
| DEVS 615 | Conflicts, Human Rights and Peace Building | 3 | |
| DEVS 616 | Development Politics of south asia and Beyond | 3 | |
| Total Credits | 18 | ||
| IV | DEVS 621 | Thesis Research | 12 |
| Total Credit Hours | 12 | ||
| All Credit Hours for the Course | 60 | ||
| Form submission: | Thursday February 10, 2022 |
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| Forms available at: | CDS Premises, Basuki Marga, Mid Baneshwor 31, Kathmandu (Old Global College Building) (or online form available at http://tiny.cc/gbnbtz) |
| Entrance Test: | Friday February 11, 2022 (Entrance test conducted remotely with Microsoft Forms at this link http://tiny.cc/0phbtz) |
| Entrance Result Announcement: | Sunday February 13, 2022 (Through phone call, SMS and email notice) |
| Admission Fee Paying & Seat Confirmation: | February 13 to February 18, Total Seats:25 (Admission fee payable at CDS Premises, Mid Baneshwor or through online) |
| Number of Seats: | 25 |
| Class Commencement: | Sunday February 20, 2022 (On-campus (if possible) or online via CDS Microsoft Teams Login & Password) |
| Key Contact Person: | Mr. Biraj Ghimire Mobile : 9849906855 (Viber) and 9801904907 (biraj.ghimire@globalcollege.edu.np) |
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