301559 (v.2) Politics 228 - Approaches to Development

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Area:	Department of Social Sciences
Credits:	25.0
Contact Hours:	3.0
Tutorial:	1 x 1 Hours Weekly
Laboratory:	1 x 1 Hours Weekly
Workshop:	1 x 1 Hours Weekly
Syllabus:	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.
Unit Outcomes:	To provide students with an understanding of the theories and approaches that have guided development thinking from colonial to postcolonial times To provide a conceptual and theoretical basis for the examination of development policies and practices inspecific development programs and projects. To examine new postcolonial development discourses which challenge/provide alternatives to dominant approaches.