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Development in Practice - SOCA3211
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Faculty: Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences
 
 
School:  School of Social Sciences and International Studies
 
 
Course Outline: http://sociology.arts.unsw.edu.au/
 
 
Campus: Kensington Campus
 
 
Career: Undergraduate
 
 
Units of Credit: 6
 
 
EFTSL: 0.12500 (more info)
 
 
Indicative Contact Hours per Week: 3
 
 
Enrolment Requirements:
 
 
Prerequisite: 36 units of credit
 
 
Fee Band: 1 (more info)
 
 
Further Information: See Class Timetable
 
 

Description

Investigates the parameters of contemporary development and the ways they affect our lives and the lives of others. Takes a historical approach to examine how the 'development project' arose out of the decline of colonialism and the rise of the Cold War, and how this 'project' was eventually supplanted by a quite different set of processes. Covers various topical areas including population pressures, urbanisation, the world food crisis, women and the international division of labour, foreign aid and NGOs, sustainable development, and the ethics of intervention.

Learning Outcomes

Expected student learning outcomes:
  • Gain an appreciation of the global problems that development policies aim to address
  • Acquire ethnographic knowledge of how anthropology illuminates issues such as rural poverty, gender disparity, informal education and local participation
  • Acquire ethnographic knowledge of how local people have responded to development programmes
  • Gain an understanding of anthropological critiques of development theory and projects
  • Gain practical experience in some of the methods used by anthropologists to study and/or manage development projects
  • Explore why development projects fail or succeed.

Assessment

  • Essay (3000-3500 words) - 50%
  • Fieldwork - 30%
  • On-line tutorial - 10%
  • In-class tutorial - 10%

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