 Academic Year:
| 2015/6 |
| Owning Department/School:
| Department of Social & Policy Sciences |
| Credits:
| 6 |
| Level:
| Honours (FHEQ level 6) |
| Period: |
Semester 1
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| Assessment Summary:
| CW 100% |
| Assessment Detail: |
- Coursework 100% (CW 100%)
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| Supplementary Assessment: |
Reassessment not allowed
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| Requisites: |
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| Description:
| Aims:
The unit introduces students to the key contemporary debates on the causes of and possible solutions to the major developmental and security challenges facing the world's poorest countries. In particular, it covers debates on: the utility or futility of international aid to assist poor countries; the 'conflict trap' affecting many under-developed countries; the mainstream 'Liberal Peace' agenda linking security and development; and, contemporary concepts of global governance and global civil society.
Learning Outcomes:
By the end of this unit students will be able to:
* critically understand the concepts of global governance, conflict, security and under-development;
* critically evaluate mainstream diagnoses of under-development as a consequence of poor governance and the 'conflict trap' and critiques of this orthodoxy;
* critically assess contemporary global trends in the politics of development
* understand the different levels and actors involved in world politics of development and critically
* discuss their contributions to different development approaches.
Skills:
* ability to understand and analyse critically a range of issues in the contemporary world politics of development.
* Ability to make presentations and engage in constructive, critical discussion.
* Ability to write articulately, concisely and persuasively about issues in world politics of development.
* Ability to research independently an issue related to world politics of development.
Content:
1. Global governance, conflict security and development
2. Economic theories of violent conflict
3. The politics of ethnic conflict
4. The regional dimensions of civil war
5. Human security and Liberal Peacebuilding
6. Aid and conditionality
7. Humanitarian and military interventions
8. Conflict resolution and peace settlements
9. Global Civil Society and Transnational Social Movements
10. Framing under-development: representations of development, humanitarianism and conflict
Students will be given the opportunity to make short presentations on topics related to their essays in seminars. Formative feedback will be provided on these.
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| Programme availability: |
SP30210 is Optional on the following programmes:
Department of Economics
- UHES-AFB02 : BSc(Hons) Economics and International Development (Year 3)
- UHES-AKB02 : BSc(Hons) Economics and International Development with Year long work placement (Year 4)
- UHES-AFB01 : BSc(Hons) Economics and Politics (Year 3)
- UHES-AKB01 : BSc(Hons) Economics and Politics with Year long work placement (Year 4)
Department of Politics, Languages and International Studies
- UHPL-AYB13 : BA(Hons) French and Politics with Year Abroad (Year 4)
- UHPL-AYB12 : BA(Hons) German and Politics with Year Abroad (Year 4)
- UHPL-AYB16 : BA(Hons) Italian ab inito and Politics with Year Abroad (Year 4)
- UHPL-AYB14 : BA(Hons) Italian and Politics with Year Abroad (Year 4)
- UHPL-AYB08 : BA(Hons) Modern Languages and European Studies (French and ab initio Italian) with Year Abroad (Year 4)
- UHPL-AYB09 : BA(Hons) Modern Languages and European Studies (French and ab initio Russian) with Year Abroad (Year 4)
- UHPL-AYB05 : BA(Hons) Modern Languages and European Studies (French and German) with Year Abroad (Year 4)
- UHPL-AYB04 : BA(Hons) Modern Languages and European Studies (French and Italian) with Year Abroad (Year 4)
- UHPL-AYB18 : BA(Hons) Modern Languages and European Studies (French and Spanish) with Year Abroad (Year 4)
- UHPL-AYB06 : BA(Hons) Modern Languages and European Studies (German and ab initio Italian) with Year Abroad (Year 4)
- UHPL-AYB07 : BA(Hons) Modern Languages and European Studies (German and ab initio Russian) with Year Abroad (Year 4)
- UHPL-AYB02 : BA(Hons) Modern Languages and European Studies (German and Italian) with Year Abroad (Year 4)
- UHPL-AYB23 : BA(Hons) Modern Languages and European Studies (German and Spanish) with Year Abroad (Year 4)
- UHPL-AYB20 : BA(Hons) Modern Languages and European Studies (Spanish and ab initio Italian) with Year Abroad (Year 4)
- UHPL-AYB22 : BA(Hons) Modern Languages and European Studies (Spanish and ab initio Russian) with Year Abroad (Year 4)
- UHPL-AYB19 : BA(Hons) Modern Languages and European Studies (Spanish and Italian) with Year Abroad (Year 4)
- UHPL-AFB30 : BSc(Hons) Politics and International Relations (Year 3)
- UHPL-AAB30 : BSc(Hons) Politics and International Relations with Study year abroad (Year 4)
- UHPL-AKB30 : BSc(Hons) Politics and International Relations with Year long work placement (Year 4)
- UHPL-AFB10 : BSc(Hons) Politics with Economics (Year 3)
- UHPL-AAB10 : BSc(Hons) Politics with Economics with Study year abroad (Year 4)
- UHPL-AKB10 : BSc(Hons) Politics with Economics with Year long work placement (Year 4)
- UHPL-AFB29 : BSc(Hons) Politics with International Relations (Year 3)
- UHPL-AKB29 : BSc(Hons) Politics with International Relations with Year long work placement (Year 4)
- UHPL-AYB15 : BA(Hons) Russian ab inito and Politics with Year Abroad (Year 4)
- UHPL-AYB17 : BA(Hons) Spanish and Politics with Year Abroad (Year 4)
Department of Social & Policy Sciences
- UHSP-AFB16 : BSc(Hons) Social Policy (Year 3)
- UHSP-AKB16 : BSc(Hons) Social Policy with Year long work placement (Year 4)
- UHSP-AFB05 : BSc(Hons) Social Sciences (Year 3)
- UHSP-AKB05 : BSc(Hons) Social Sciences with Year long work placement (Year 4)
- UHSP-AFB04 : BSc(Hons) Sociology (Year 3)
- UHSP-AKB04 : BSc(Hons) Sociology with Year long work placement (Year 4)
- UHSP-AFB10 : BSc(Hons) Sociology and Social Policy (Year 3)
- UHSP-AKB10 : BSc(Hons) Sociology and Social Policy with Year long work placement (Year 4)
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