 Academic Year:
| 2015/6 |
| Owning Department/School:
| Department of Social & Policy Sciences |
| Credits:
| 6 |
| Level:
| Certificate (FHEQ level 4) |
| Period: |
Semester 1
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| Assessment Summary:
| CW 75%, OT 25% |
| Assessment Detail: |
- Coursework Essay 75% (CW 75%)
- Coursework Essay Plan 25% (OT 25%)
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| Supplementary Assessment: |
SP10204 Supplementary assessment 100% CW (where allowed by programme regulations)
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| Requisites: |
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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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| Programme availability: |
SP10204 is a Designated Essential Unit on the following programmes:
Department of Social & Policy Sciences
- UHSP-AFB21 : BSc(Hons) International Development with Economics (Year 1)
- UHSP-AKB21 : BSc(Hons) International Development with Economics with Year long work placement (Year 1)
SP10204 is Optional on the following programmes:
Department of Economics
- UHES-AFB03 : BSc(Hons) Economics (Year 1)
- UHES-AKB03 : BSc(Hons) Economics with Year long work placement (Year 1)
Department of Politics, Languages and International Studies
- UHPL-AYB13 : BA(Hons) French and Politics with Year Abroad (Year 1)
- UHPL-AYB12 : BA(Hons) German and Politics with Year Abroad (Year 1)
- UHPL-AYB16 : BA(Hons) Italian ab inito and Politics with Year Abroad (Year 1)
- UHPL-AYB14 : BA(Hons) Italian and Politics with Year Abroad (Year 1)
- UHPL-AFB30 : BSc(Hons) Politics and International Relations (Year 1)
- UHPL-AAB30 : BSc(Hons) Politics and International Relations with Study year abroad (Year 1)
- UHPL-AKB30 : BSc(Hons) Politics and International Relations with Year long work placement (Year 1)
- UHPL-AFB10 : BSc(Hons) Politics with Economics (Year 1)
- UHPL-AAB10 : BSc(Hons) Politics with Economics with Study year abroad (Year 1)
- UHPL-AKB10 : BSc(Hons) Politics with Economics with Year long work placement (Year 1)
- UHPL-AYB15 : BA(Hons) Russian ab inito and Politics with Year Abroad (Year 1)
- UHPL-AYB17 : BA(Hons) Spanish and Politics with Year Abroad (Year 1)
Department of Social & Policy Sciences
- UHSP-AFB14 : BSc(Hons) Applied Social Studies (Year 1)
- UHSP-AFB16 : BSc(Hons) Social Policy (Year 1)
- UHSP-AKB16 : BSc(Hons) Social Policy with Year long work placement (Year 1)
- UHSP-AFB05 : BSc(Hons) Social Sciences (Year 1)
- UHSP-AKB05 : BSc(Hons) Social Sciences with Year long work placement (Year 1)
- UHSP-AFB04 : BSc(Hons) Sociology (Year 1)
- UHSP-AKB04 : BSc(Hons) Sociology with Year long work placement (Year 1)
- UHSP-AFB10 : BSc(Hons) Sociology and Social Policy (Year 1)
- UHSP-AKB10 : BSc(Hons) Sociology and Social Policy with Year long work placement (Year 1)
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