Rural Development and Natural Resource Management - Master's programme

Published: 21 March 2024
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Information for those studying on the Master's programme (two-year) in Rural Development and Natural Resource Management. On these pages you will find information about the programme, contact details and the documents governing the degree programme.

 

 

 

 

Welcome letter

Welcome to the Rural Development and Natural Resource Management Programme!

We are glad that you have been admitted to the Master's Programme in Rural Development and Natural Resource Management for the academic years 2024–2025 at the Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences (SLU).

We look forward to having you with us in Uppsala. A very warm welcome!

The autumn semester 2024 begins with roll call and study information on campus.

Date: Monday 2 September

Time and place: On the pages for new students for you will find information when the roll call for your programme begins and which room the roll call will be in.

On these pages, you will also find all the information you need as a new student at SLU, including information about the orientation days. The orientation days are not mandatory, but we recommend that you attend them. They take place at the end of August, before the semester starts, and provide essential and useful information about your stay in Sweden and your studies at SLU.

Your first course will be Rurality, livelihood and gender. On the course page, you will find a timetable for your classes and other course-related information. Timetables and reading lists will be published at least four weeks before the course starts.

The programme runs for two years and attracts students worldwide. It offers students learning, knowledge and skills which can be used to understand and address rural development issues in the global South and North. Rural development depends on a multitude of socio-cultural, economic, health, political and agroecological determinants. Understanding this complexity requires trans-disciplinary analyses which students learn in the Programme. The Programme focuses on interconnections between rural development, natural resource management and social organization as well as rural-urban linkages and strategies for sustainable livelihoods.

The introductory course is followed by courses on sustainable natural resource management, conflict, democracy, facilitation, global food systems and food security, during the first year of the Programme. In the second year, the Programme offers courses on how to theorize rural development and on research methods. These courses aim to broaden the students’ understandings of social science theory and prepare them for carrying out individual research for their master theses.

To facilitate students’ learning, the experience and expertise of the faculty at SLU, and external lecturers of international repute, are enlisted with the aim to provide broad experience and understandings of rural change and natural resource management issues.

We would like to inform you that only students with legitimate proof will be considered for late registration (e.g. supported medical reasons). 

Kind greetings,

Margarita Cuadra, Acting Programme Director of Studies

Syllabus

Course subject area and level

Course syllabuses provide information about a course’s subject area(s) and its level and specialisation. The syllabus is available from the course’s webpage which you can search for here. If you are studying on a programme, you can in most cases click the course heading on the programme’s course schedule to go to the course page.

Abbreviations

  • G1N: First-cycle level, only upper secondary entry requirements
  • G1F: First-cycle level, fewer than 60 credits from first-cycle courses as entry requirement
  • G2F: First-cycle level, a minimum of 60 credits at first-cycle level as entry requirement
  • G2E: First-cycle level, a minimum of 60 credits at first-cycle level as entry requirement, contains a degree project for the Degree of Bachelor
  • A1N: Second-cycle level, only first-cycle course(s) as entry requirement – at SLU, a minimum of 120 credits at first-cycle level is required
  • A1F: Second-cycle level, contains degree project for
    Master’s degree (60 credits)
  • GXX: First-cycle level, course specialisation cannot be classified
  • AXX: Second-cycle level, course specialisation cannot be classified

Course schedule academic year 23/24

Year 1

Year 2

Course schedule academic year 24/25

Year 1

Year 2

If you would like to apply for this programme

This page is for students currently studying on the programme. If you are not currently a student but would like to apply, you can read more about the programme’s content and the application process here.

 

 


Contact

Acting Programme Director of Studies - Rural Development and Natural Resource Management

Margarita Cuadra, Researcher
Department or Urban and Rural Development; Division of Rural Development                                                        
Margarita,cuadra@slu.se, 018-67 34 65