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Module Specifications
Current Academic Year 2012 - 2013
Please note that this information is subject to change.
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The relationship between the rich North and the developing South is a major issue in today s world. This issue has implications beyond economic development and human security, spilling over into questions of military security and environmental sustainability. The aim of this module is to examine the ways in which the international community has collectively debated this issue and to introduce students to the principal theoretical perspectives within development studies. It will analyse the key phases in thinking on international development from the 1950s to the present day. This will provide a framework in which to examine contemporary approaches to the subject including sustainable development, human development and post-development theory. Recognising that theory and practice stand in a dialectical relationship to one another (namely that theory grows and changes through reflection on practice and that practice is always guided by theoretical presuppositions whether it is aware of these or not), the course relates theoretical developments and changes in the academic study of development to the main events and movements that have shaped world development over the past half century. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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1. 1. Critically assess and discuss key theories and strategies of development including modernisation and dependency theories, post-development, sustainable development, gender and development, and participation. 2. 2. Analyse the role of different political actors in development in a variety of contexts and from different theoretical perspectives. 3. 3. Engage with these theoretical debates in the context of specific case studies from different countries and contexts. 4. 4. Communicate independent research and reading orally in groups, in written form, and engage in class debates on relevant topics 5. 5. Reflect on the usefulness of development as a socio-political concpet and as a discrete unit of study. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
All module information is indicative and subject to change. For further information,students are advised to refer to the University's Marks and Standards and Programme Specific Regulations at: http://www.dcu.ie/registry/examinations/index.shtml |
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| GCDEV | Graduate Certificate in Development | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| MDEV | MA in Development | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Timetable this semester: Timetable for LG598 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Date of Last Revision | 31-MAY-10 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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