Courses Handbook 2006 - [Archived]

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


Area:

Department of Social Sciences

Credits:

25.0

Contact Hours:

3.0
 
** The tuition pattern below provides details of the types of classes and their duration. This is to be used as a guide only. For more precise information please check your unit outline. **
 

Tutorial:

1 x 1 Hours Weekly

Laboratory:

1 x 1 Hours Weekly

Workshop:

1 x 1 Hours Weekly

Anti Requisite(s):

301555 (v.2) Anthropology 224 - Approaches to Development
301556 (v.2) Anthropology 324 - Approaches to Development
301557 (v.2) Geography 223 - Approaches to Development
301558 (v.2) Geography 323 - Approaches to Development
 

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.
 
** To ensure that the most up-to-date information about unit references, texts and outcomes appears, they will be provided in your unit outline prior to commencement. **
 

Field of Education:

090100 Political Science and Policy Studies (Narrow Grouping)

Funding Cluster:

05 - Behavioural Science, Social Studies

SOLT (Online) Definitions*:

Informational
*Extent to which this unit or thesis utilises online information

Result Type:

Grade/Mark

Availability

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