BSc International Development, UCC
The BSc International Development at UCC is a four-year level eight Honours Degree, the only one of its kind in Ireland. The course provides students with the chance to engage with key global issues in international development such as food security, poverty, conflict, climate change, migration, and human rights.
Students on this course benefit from inputs from highly skilled lecturers as well as experts with practical experience working in international development and humanitarian action.
You will get the unique opportunity to live and study abroad, putting your newly developed skills into practice through an overseas placement in Asia, Africa or Latin America - a truly international experience.
The programme has been running since 2005 and has graduated over 300 students to date.
5 key reasons to take this programme
- A chance to engage with key global issues featured in the United Nations Sustainable Development Goal – including food security, poverty, conflict, climate change, migration, and human rights.
- A truly international experience, with a diverse study body and a programme that puts particular interest on low and middle-income countries in Asia, Africa and Latin America.
- A multi-disciplinary perspective, with a core focus on international development enhanced by exposure to subjects such as public health, nutrition, human rights law, sociology of race, ethnicity and inequality, and the economics of the global system.
- Inputs from experts with experience working in international development and humanitarian action, as well as practitioners working in local issues such as migration, asylum and development education.
- An opportunity to live and work in a developing country while studying, as part of a five-month internship with an organisation linked to your area of interest.
Employment opportunities for our graduates
- International organisations, including United Nations bodies
- The Irish government sector such as Irish Aid
- Non-government sector e.g. organisations such as Concern, Trócaire, Self-Help Africa, working in areas such as migration, human right and climate change; or with community organisations, working on issues of local development.
- In addition, many of our graduates go on to study at Masters and even PhD level in universities in Ireland and around the world, in specialist areas ranging from human rights law to public health, climate change and local economic development.
For more information about this course, check out our website at https://www.ucc.ie/en/ck214/ – where you can also see some exciting videos of our students on international placement.
