Registry
Module Specifications
Archived Version 2010 - 2011
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To develop an understanding of Africa’s current challenges and opportunities, and to situate those within a global frame of reference. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Assume that a 10 credit module load represents approximately 150 hours' work, which includes all teaching, in-course assignments, laboratory work or other specialised training and an estimated private learning time associated with the module. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Indicative Syllabus | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
participation, political parties and state capacity
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Indicative Reading List | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Ake, Claude. Democracy and Development in Africa. Washington D.C.: The Brookings Institute, 1996. Bratton, Michael and Nicholas van de Walle. Democratic Experiments in Africa: Regime Transitions in Comparative Perspective. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1997. Chabal, Patrick & Jean-Pascal Daloz. Africa Works: Disorder as Political Instrument. Oxford: International African Institute in association with James Currey, 1999. Graham Harrison, Issues in the Contemporary Politics of Sub-Saharan Africa (Basingstoke: Palgrave, 2002). Kevane, Michael, Women and development in Africa : how gender works. Boulder, CO: Lynne Rienner, 2003). Leonard, David K. and Scott Straus, Africa’s Stalled Development: International Causes and Cures (Boulder, CO: Lynne Rienner, 2003). Mkandawire, Thandika and Charles Soludo (eds.) African Voices on Structural Adjustment (Trenton, NJ: Africa World Press, 2003). Onimode, Bade et al., African Development and Governance Strategies in the 21st Century (London: Zed, 2004). Salih, Mohammed ed. African Political Parties – Evolution, Institutionalisation and Governance. London: Pluto Press, 2003. Smith, Brian C. Understanding Third World Politics: Theories of Political Change and Development. 2nd Ed. Bloomington, Indiana University Press. van de Walle, Nicolas, Nicole Ball and Vijaya Ramachandram Beyond structural adjustment : the institutional context of African development., (Palgrave, 2003.)
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Programme or List of Programmes | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
HMSA | Study Abroad (Humanities & Soc Science) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
IFPDEV | Pre-Masters Intl.Found.Prog.Devel.Studie | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
IFPSDE | Pre-Masters Intl.Found.Prog.Devel.Studie | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
IFPSIC | Pre MSc Intl Foun Sgl Sem Intl Sec & Con | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
IFPSIR | Pre MSc Intl Foun Sgl Sem Intl Rels | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
MAIS | MA in Intercultural Studies | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
MDEV | MA in Development | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
MIR | MA in International Relations | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
MISC | MA in International Security & Conflict | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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