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| PR 3300 - Politics of Int Development |
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Associated Term:
2024/25 Academic Session
Learning Objectives: Despite growing total economic affluence, the world continues to be characterised by persistent poverty and inequality. To briefly illustrate this reality, close to one billion people globally still lack daily access to sufficient food, more than three billion people live on less than 2.5 USD a day, and more than 22,000 children die each day due to poverty (World Development Indicators, 2015). In theory, ‘development’ should resolve these problems – but what is development and how can it be achieved? This course explores key development challenges faced across developing countries and is divided into three sections. The first critically examines some of the major concepts, paradigms, and theories, which have attempted to define what development is, how and why it occurs (or does not), and to whose benefit. The second focuses on some of the key development challenges faced by developing countries: economic (poverty, inequality, unemployment), political (democracy, human rights, role of elites), social (religion, race/ethnicity/caste, urbanization), and natural (climate change, pollution, resource extraction, extermination of species). The final section explores possible remedies to these issues through international cooperation (trade, aid, finance, South-South cooperation), national policies (welfare schemes, laws and regulations), and micro and informal solutions.
Learning Outcomes:
1. Understand the contested nature of the concept of ‘development’ and its measurements;
2. Be familiar with key concepts and debates around political, economic, and social development;
3. Be able to critically analyse major development issues and discuss the benefits and drawbacks of potential policy solutions;
4. Appreciate the role of power relations, politics, and institutions in development outcomes.
Required Materials: Click here for the reading list system Technical Requirements: The total number of notional learning hours associated with this course is 150. These will normally be broken down as follows: 20 hour(s) of Seminars across 10 week(s) 130 hour(s) of Guided independent Study Formative Assessment: Class presentation (30 minutes) Final essay in draft, peer assessed (2,500 words) Summative Assessment: Engagement/participation 10% Varies depending on the week. 10 weeks = 1% assigned per week activity Blog post 30% 1000 Words Essay 60% 2500 Words |
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