Development Studies - COMDB23930
Stream Summary
Faculty: ARTSC - Faculty of Arts&Social Science
School: School of Social Sciences
Contact: School of Social Sciences
Program: 3930 - Science/Arts
Award(s):
Bachelor of Arts (Minor)
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Stream Outline
Students graduating from UNSW with a minor stream in Development Studies should be able to demonstrate:
- The knowledge and skills required for effective tertiary study;
- a range of specialised conceptual, policy and practical knowledge and skills developed through acquiring a sophisticated understanding of development analysis, work and the language it employs;
- a capacity to understand and interpret both disciplinary and interdisciplinary knowledge through obtaining an understanding of the ways development issues have emerged, are understood and addressed that takes into account of the role of the social, economic, institutional and political factors and their interaction;
- a deep critical understanding by students of development issues at a level of competency sufficient for either working in the field of development or research of development issues;
- a critical knowledge of the role and methods of development institutions and their role in development practice, for example, in relation to new issues like the recognition and the role of human rights in development;
- build the skills required of those students wishing to engage in development work;
- an international outlook that recognises the role that conditions applying in the developing world effect every aspect of life in the developed world and vice versa.