Area: | Faculty of Education, Language Studies and Social Work |
Credits: | 25.0 |
Contact Hours: | 2.0 |
Seminar: | 1 x 2 Hours Weekly |
Syllabus: | Ideas of development - economic development and social development. Critiques of conventional development models. The relationship of human rights to development issues and development practice. Colonialism and anti-colonialist practice . Human rights abuses of Indigenous populations in the name of 'development'. Indigenous understandings of human rights and Indigenous challenges to colonialist development. Community Development and human rights. Human rights and world poverty. Human rights and environmental issues. Human rights and business, especially in the developing world. |
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Unit Outcomes: | On completion of this unit students will have - A basic understanding of development issues and how they relate to human rights. They will be able to also apply principles of human rights to development settings - within both community development and social development traditions. |
Texts and references listed below are for your information only and current as of September 30, 2003. Some units taught offshore are modified at selected locations. Please check with the unit coordinator for up-to-date information and approved offshore variations to unit information before finalising study and textbook purchases. |
Unit References: | Brysk, A (ed) (2002), Globalization and Human Rights, Berekely, University of California Press. Human Rights Council of Australia, (1995), The Rights Way to Development: A Human Rights Approach to Development Asistance, Sydney, HR Council of Australia. Ife, J. (2001) Community Development: Community-based Alternatives in an Age of Globalisation, Melbourne, Longman. Ife, J. (2001), Human Rights and Social Work: Towards Rights-based Practice, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press. Pogge, T. (2002); World Poverty and Human Rights, Cambridge, Polity Press. UNDP, (2000), Human Development Report 2000: Human Rights and Human Development. |
Unit Texts: | No prescribed texts. |
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Unit Assessment Breakdown: | Essay 80%, Presentation 20%. This is by grade/mark assessment. |
Field of Education: | 90515 Welfare Studies | HECS Band (if applicable): | 1 |
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Extent to which this unit or thesis utilises online information: | Not Online | Result Type: | Grade/Mark |
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Availability
| Year | Location | Period | Internal | Area External | Central External | | 2004 | Bentley Campus | Semester 1 | Y | Y | |
Area
External | refers to external course/units run by the School or Department, offered online or through Web CT, or offered by research. |
Central
External | refers to external course/units run through the Curtin Bentley-based Distance Education Area |
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