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Our Teaching Goals
Development Studies is a transdisciplinary postgraduate programme that examines how societies and people interact with accelerating global change, and enables students to engage in development projects and policy development.
The Postgraduate Diploma in Development Studies critically analyses ideas about economics, globalisation, governance, internationalism, regionalism, and urbanisation, and explores their relationships with development.
The programme also offers students an opportunity to undertake project work at a range of different development levels, which may include civil society organisations and NGOs; national ministries, departments and parliaments; regional institutions and international bodies. In this way students learn how to participate in shaping development policies.
In addition, the programme enables students to undertake MA and PhD research theses.
By enabling students to better understand the world and actively engage with it, the programme intends to produce graduates able to assume creative roles in shaping sustainable societies.
About the Development Studies Programme
Development Studies began at the University of the South Pacific (USP) in 1991. In 1997 it became a University Centre, and in 2003 joined the University's new postgraduate Pacific Institute of Advanced Studies in Development and Governance (PIAS-DG).
The programme is globally recognised; many of its students receive scholarships from the Sasakawa (Nippon Foundation) Fund, the European Union, Australia and New Zealand, as well as from the governments of member countries.
The programme enjoys a close teaching and research relationship with other programmes in PIAS-DG: Governance, Pacific Studies, Management Studies, and Labour Market Studies.
Elective courses can also be taken from other University postgraduate programmes in economics, history, geography, land management, management and public administration, marine affairs, politics, population studies, sociology, and tourism studies, etc. Linkages with agriculture, education, journalism, law, literature, and science may also be possible.
Staff in PIAS-DG are actively engaged in research and publications. We work closely with networks of scholars in the region and internationally, for example the Globalisation Studies Network and the Oceania Development Network.
Staff also liaise closely with civil society organisations, government policy makers, business, and regional and international organisations, such as Transparency International, the South Pacific Forum, the UN Development Programme, and the Asian Development Bank. We assist in gathering data, developing policy and offering training workshops.
Through our outreach programmes, publications, public lectures and development forums, staff in Development Studies also inform the public on critical current issues.
Study @ USP
We welcome students from USP member countries as well as international students with professional and research interests in development and the management of social change.
Our courses are designed specifically for students interested in Pacific, Third World, and global issues.
Development Studies is taught from Suva, Fiji's capital city in the heart of the Pacific.
The USP has approximately 20,000 students and is one of only two regional universities in the world.
As a regional university servicing 12 member countries, the USP offers students a truly multicultural experience. Its staff and students are drawn from all around the world.
Contact Us
Applications for entry into the Postgraduate Diploma in Development Studies should normally be submitted by December of the year preceding enrolment at USP.
Applications for entry into MA and PhD studies can be made at any time.
Students wishing only to study individual courses (including internships) or who wish to study such courses as part of another programme (including overseas ones) should apply early in the semester preceding their intended study at USP.
Students wishing to undertake our 5 course Postgraduate Diploma in Development Studies (a 400-level programme equivalent to Honours), or our MA and PhD research theses should contact us at the addresses below for application forms:
The Executive Assistant
Development Studies Program
School of Governance and Development Studies
The University of the South Pacific
Private Mail Bag
Suva, Fiji
Web: http://www.usp.ac.fj/index.php?id=devstudies
email: developmentstudies(at)usp.ac.fj
telephone: (679) 323 2297
fax: (679) 323 1523
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