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. |
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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. |
Field of Education: | 90100 Political Science and Policy Studies (Narrow Grouping) | HECS Band (if applicable): | 1 |
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Extent to which this unit or thesis utilises online information: | Informational | Result Type: | Grade/Mark |
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