Academic Year:
| 2013/4 |
Owning Department/School:
| Department of Social & Policy Sciences |
Credits:
| 6 |
Level:
| Intermediate (FHEQ level 5) |
Period: |
Semester 2
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Assessment:
| CW 100% |
Supplementary Assessment: |
SP20208 Supplementary cw 100% (where allowed by programme regulations)
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Requisites:
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Description:
| Aims: To introduce students to the international dimension of development and familiarise them with key issues in the international politics of development.
Learning Outcomes: By the end of the unit students should:
* have a clear understanding of how the concept of development has to be understood in the context of politics at international level;
* develop analyses of connections between practices of development and that of politics at international level;
* be familiar with the debates over First World, Third World and development;
* have a critical understanding of key issues such as aid, conditionalities, international organisations, human security, war, and inequality.
Skills:
* Critical thinking
* Proactive 'reading' of the written and visual texts
* Relating academic learning to everyday life
* Managing time effectively to optimise knowledge and understanding of a syllabus
* Writing clearly and concisely and presenting an argument logically and succinctly.
Content: The topics will include: conceptualising the 'international' of development; development in the context of international politics; the idea of first world, third world and Developmentalism; postcolonial states and developmentalism; aid and conditionalities; security and development; women, war and development; the role of international organisations; inequality, poverty and hunger as international development as well as international political issues and the changing geo-political environment with respect to the rise of China and the 'Left Turn' in Latin America.
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Programme availability: |
SP20208 is Compulsory on the following programmes:
Department of Economics
- UHES-AFB02 : BSc (hons) Economics and International Development (Full-time) - Year 2
- UHES-AKB02 : BSc (hons) Economics and International Development (Full-time with Thick Sandwich Placement) - Year 2
SP20208 is Optional on the following programmes:
Department of Economics
- UHES-AFB01 : BSc (hons) Economics and Politics (Full-time) - Year 2
- UHES-AKB01 : BSc (hons) Economics and Politics (Full-time with Thick Sandwich Placement) - Year 2
Department of Politics, Languages and International Studies
- UHPL-AYB13 : BA (hons) French and Politics (Full-time with Year Abroad) - Year 2
- UHPL-AYB12 : BA (hons) German and Politics (Full-time with Year Abroad) - Year 2
- UHPL-AYB16 : BA (hons) Italian (ab initio) and Politics (Full-time with Year Abroad) - Year 2
- UHPL-AYB14 : BA (hons) Italian and Politics (Full-time with Year Abroad) - Year 2
- UHPL-AYB15 : BA (hons) Russian (ab initio) and Politics (Full-time with Year Abroad) - Year 2
- UHPL-AYB17 : BA (hons) Spanish and Politics (Full-time with Year Abroad) - Year 2
- UHPL-AAB30 : BSc (hons) Politics and International Relations (Full-time with Study Year Abroad) - Year 2
- UHPL-AFB30 : BSc (hons) Politics and International Relations (Full-time) - Year 2
- UHPL-AKB30 : BSc (hons) Politics and International Relations (Full-time with Thick Sandwich Placement) - Year 2
- UHPL-AAB10 : BSc (hons) Politics with Economics (Full-time with Study Year Abroad) - Year 2
- UHPL-AFB10 : BSc (hons) Politics with Economics (Full-time) - Year 2
- UHPL-AKB10 : BSc (hons) Politics with Economics (Full-time with Thick Sandwich Placement) - Year 2
- UHPL-AAB29 : BSc (hons) Politics with International Relations (Full-time with Study Year Abroad) - Year 2
- UHPL-AFB29 : BSc (hons) Politics with International Relations (Full-time) - Year 2
- UHPL-AKB29 : BSc (hons) Politics with International Relations (Full-time with Thick Sandwich Placement) - Year 2
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