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11544 (v.3) Geography 320 - Sustainable Rural Development in the Third World


Area: Department of Social Sciences
Credits: 50.0
Contact Hours: 4.0
 
** 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 4 Hours Weekly
Anti Requisite(s): 11545 (v.2) Geography 220 - Sustainable Rural Development in the Third World
 
Syllabus: Perspectives and concepts of rural development - early modernisation approaches through to green development, and gender and development. Contemporary issues of rural development-rural/urban imbalances, health, migration, poverty, resources, labour and work, cash cropping and subsistence production. Rural development practice - case studies, role of aid institutions for government and non government, methodological issues relating to data collection, analysis and project evaluation, plus one seminar presentation and a major research paper.
 
** 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: 90309 Human Geography
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

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