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

Area:

Department of Social Sciences

Credits:

50.0

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. **

Lecture:

1 x 1 Hours Weekly

Tutorial:

1 x 1 Hours Weekly

Workshop:

1 x 1 Hours Weekly

Anti Requisite(s):

9912 (v.4) Anthropology 317 - Applied Anthropology
9914 (v.4) Anthropology 217 - Applied Anthropology
11544 (v.3) Geography 320 - Sustainable Rural Development in the Third World
11545 (v.2) Geography 220 - Sustainable Rural Development in the Third World
301557 (v.2) Geography 223 - Approaches to Development
301558 (v.2) Geography 323 - Approaches to Development
301559 (v.2) Politics 228 - Approaches to Development
301561 (v.2) Anthropology 225 - Development Policy in Practice

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. Students must produce a major research project.

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Field of Education:

090303 Anthropology

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

Year	Location	Period	Internal	Partially Online Internal	Area External	Central External	Fully Online
2007	Bentley Campus	Semester 1	Y

Area External	refers to external course/units run by the School or Department or offered by research.
Central External	refers to external and online course/units run through the Curtin Bentley-based Distance Education Area
Partially Online Internal	refers to some (a portion of) learning provided by interacting with or downloading pre-packaged material from the Internet but with regular and ongoing participation with a face-to-face component retained. Excludes partially online internal course/units run through the Curtin Bentley-based Distance Education Area which remain Central External
Fully Online	refers to the main (larger portion of) mode of learning provided via Internet interaction (including the downloading of pre-packaged material on the Internet). Excludes online course/units run through the Curtin Bentley-based Distance Education Area which remain Central External