301556 (v.2) Anthropology 324 - Approaches to Development

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Area:	Department of Social Sciences
Contact Hours:	3.0
Credits:	50.0
Lecture:	1 x 1 Hours Weekly
Tutorial:	1 x 1 Hours Weekly
Workshop:	1 x 1 Hours Weekly
Anti Requisite(s):	301558 (v.2) Geography 323 - Approaches to Development 301557 (v.2) Geography 223 - Approaches to Development 11545 (v.2) Geography 220 - Sustainable Rural Development in the Third World 11544 (v.3) Geography 320 - Sustainable Rural Development in the Third World 9914 (v.4) Anthropology 217 - Applied Anthropology 9912 (v.4) Anthropology 317 - Applied Anthropology 301561 (v.2) Anthropology 225 - Development Policy in Practice
An introduction to discourses of development that have underpinned development policy and practice over the past 100 years. Among the discourses examined are colonial development thinking, modernisation theory, dependency and world-systems theory, marxist and neo-marxist approaches, neo-liberalism, and post-colonial development theory. Students must produce a major research project.