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It's an invaluable experience!

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You can sit in the classroom
and learn about these things all you want,

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- but to actually get into it and experience it.

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No amount of studying will replace that.

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The program in global development studies

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- is relevant for everyone who
is interested in global development issues.

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We discuss inequality, climate change,

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- migration, cultural change,

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- but our students also get
insight into how these large issues

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- impact people
in different parts of the world.

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The students have
the possibility to come with inputs

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- about how to make the class better

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- and how to improve
the whole study program in itself.

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It's not just one-way communication

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- where I show up to lectures
and sit in a chair and then go home.

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There's a lot of involvement
and I think that's one of my favourite parts.

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The program enables you to go into the field

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- the first, second and third year,

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- so you can really get your hands dirty

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- and get that feel of what
development studies is about

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- and what development work is about.

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It's so like exhilarating and challenging

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- to be out on UN projects in 30-degree heat

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- and working with Norwegians
and then also international students

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- and Sri Lankan locals

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We got to meet so many different people

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- and so many different
organisations in Sri Lanka.

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You get to see the world in a new way

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- because you learn different perspectives
and you learn to be critical.

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It's one thing to look at
economic development at the global level

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- with a bunch of people
that you grew up with

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- or see the world the same way,

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but to get to do it with people
from Norway or Russia,

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- Sri Lanka or China

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and contribute all those
different perspectives.

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I think is really incredible!