SP10204: Introduction to international development
[Page last updated: 15 October 2020]
![]() | 2020/1 |
![]() | Department of Social & Policy Sciences |
![]() | 6 [equivalent to 12 CATS credits] |
![]() | 120 |
![]() | Certificate (FHEQ level 4) |
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![]() | CW 20%, PF 80% |
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Information regarding synoptic assessment for this unit will be published shortly. In the meantime please contact the Director of Studies or consult your programme handbook for further details. |
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Description: | Aims: The course unit provides an introduction to the interdisciplinary study of International Development and familiarises students with some of its key issues, concepts and methods. Learning Outcomes: By the end of this unit students should: * Have a clear understanding of the range of issues raised by International Development * Have a clear grasp of certain key concepts and methods used in the study and practice of Development * Be able to apply these in the analysis of development contexts. Skills: Critical analysis of texts Clear and logical expression, oral and written Critical reflection on own experience and connections across text and context. Content: The course uses a number of case studies to survey a range of issues concerned with development centred on these four themes: * The four components of International Development: the 'international'; poverty/disadvantage; change/progress; agency/action. * Who are the poor/Why are they poor?: Approaches to understanding poverty; * Change/progress: grand theories and local trajectories; understanding the nature of change * Agency/action: agencies of development; social movements; dynamics of agency; development critique. |
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SP10204 is a Designated Essential Unit on the following programmes:Department of Social & Policy Sciences
SP10204 is Optional on the following programmes:Department of Economics
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