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SP12007: International development: global perspectives

[Page last updated: 03 June 2024]

Academic Year: 2024/25
Owning Department/School: Department of Social & Policy Sciences
Credits: 5 [equivalent to 10 CATS credits]
Notional Study Hours: 100
Level: Certificate (FHEQ level 4)
Period:
Semester 1
Assessment Summary: CWPF 60%, CWRA 40%
Assessment Detail:
  • Portfolio (CWPF 60%)
  • Write a blog-post (CWRA 40% - Qualifying Mark: 40)
Supplementary Assessment:
Like-for-like reassessment (where allowed by programme regulations)
Requisites:
Learning Outcomes: By the end of this unit students will be able to:
* Define different visions of international development and identify the actors behind them.
* Reflect critically on how and why different visions of international development achieve global scope, scale and sustainability, or fail to do so.
* Reflect critically on the sustainability (political, economic, environmental) and inclusivity of different views of international development.
* Appreciate and evaluate alternative and post development ideas, and be able to use them to reflect critically on development prospects locally as well as globally and into the future.
* Formulate and refine their own views of international development and recognize how they differ from those of others.


Synopsis: Explore the idea of international development (ID), focusing on its emergence and evolution as a Western dominated phenomenon over the last century and more to then explore the global nature of ID as a universally applicable framework. You will review ID as a natural, national, socio-cultural, institutional, political and economic and market led phenomenon while exploring different actors and agencies involved in ID. Reflect critically on ID, alternative development and post-development futures.

Content: This unit will explore the idea of international development (ID), focusing on its emergence and evolution as a Western dominated phenomenon to then explore the global nature of ID as a universally applicable framework. It will review ID as a natural, national, socio-cultural, institutional, political and economic and market led phenomenon while exploring different actors and agencies involved in ID. It will reflect critically on ID, alternative development and post-development futures.

Course availability:

SP12007 is Compulsory on the following courses:

Department of Social & Policy Sciences
  • UHSP-AFB31 : BSc(Hons) International Development with Economics (Year 1)
  • UHSP-AKB31 : BSc(Hons) International Development with Economics with professional placement (Year 1)

SP12007 is Optional on the following courses:

Department of Economics
  • UHES-AFB10 : BSc(Hons) Economics (Year 2)
  • UHES-AFB11 : BSc(Hons) Economics with Politics (Year 2)
  • UHES-AKB11 : BSc(Hons) Economics with Politics with professional placement (Year 2)
  • UHES-AKB11 : BSc(Hons) Economics with Politics with professional placement and study abroad (Year 2)
  • UHES-AKB11 : BSc(Hons) Economics with Politics with study abroad (Year 2)
  • UHES-AKB10 : BSc(Hons) Economics with professional placement (Year 2)
  • UHES-AKB10 : BSc(Hons) Economics with professional placement and study abroad (Year 2)
  • UHES-AKB10 : BSc(Hons) Economics with study abroad (Year 2)

Notes:

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