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Main Campus, Mzuzu View mapThe Masters and Doctor of Philosophy programme in Transformative Community Development (TCD) is an interdisciplinary programme. The Masters and PhD is awarded by Department of Agri-Sciences, Faculty of Environmental Sciences of Mzuzu University. The program is designed to stimulate interdisciplinary examination and critical theorization of social practice and its relationship to policy, programs and transformational change. Basically the program aims at transformative engagement between practitioners, policy-makers, decision-makers and the Communities of Practice (COPs) in interdisciplinary areas. As immediate outcomes TCD post graduate program strives to enhance and establish:
- Graduate training to enhance the capacity of agencies to work with vulnerable communities.
- Increased flows of transformative knowledge and understanding among food insecure rural communities and all levels of the policy hierarchies affecting them.
- Strengthened agency of vulnerable communities with respect to policy-making and knowledge
- Strengthened Higher Education Institutions (HEI) capacities in transformative research and promotion of transformative capacities among actors in food and climate change.
- For a Master’s degree in Transformative Community Development, the candidates are expected to have a bachelor’s degree in Science, Engineering, Social Science, Humanities, Arts, or any related field from an accredited institution of higher learning.
- For a Doctor of Philosophy in Transformative Community development, the candidates are expected to have a Master’s degree in Science, Engineering, Social Science, Humanities, Arts, or any related field from an accredited institution of higher learning.
