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Description This course will intorduce you to the challenges of global development. Why does pioverty and inequality persist? What explains regional variations in levels of development? | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Learning Outcomes 1. understand the key debates on global development 2. analyse the underlying causes of underdevelopment 3. explain why underdevelopment, poverty and inequality persist | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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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Learning Activities Course overviewThis course is designed to introduce students to development studies and the theories that attempt to explain the different ways that development has taken place over time. The objective of the course is to develop students ability to understand the key development challenges today, and to analyse their root causes and effects. Within this, the course will focus on the sustained levels poverty and inequality which exist in our world, and will look critically at some of the explanations provided by development studies for this reality, including key theories which have influenced development such as modernisation, dependency and neo-liberal theories. The course will ask why, after over half a century of development interventions by rich countries into the affairs of poorer countries, has global poverty and inequality not been diminished substantially or indeed eradicated completely? How have approaches to development evolved since the Second World War, and why? What is the role of states and international institutions in development today, and how has the dynamic of globalization shaped the development process? | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Other Resources 1008, other readings, 0, these will be pasted each week on Moodle, | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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IR | BA in International Relations |
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