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Political Economy of Development (DEVT90045)
Graduate courseworkPoints: 12.5Dual-Delivery (Parkville)
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About this subject
- Overview
- Eligibility and requirements
- Assessment
- Dates and times
- Further information
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Contact information
Semester 1
Overview
Availability | Semester 1 - Dual-Delivery |
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Intended learning outcomes
Upon successful completion of this subject, students will be expected to have:
- Strengthened their understanding of the choices involved in setting goals for development policy and their sense of priorities for national strategy formation;
- Gained a thorough knowledge of the underlying assumptions, intellectual strengths and critiques of neo-liberal economics and of alternatives being advocated and attempted;
- Grown in understanding of the diversity of experience of developing countries through comparative case studies;
- Increased their capacity to discern the political and economic forces driving various approaches to development strategy and of the means through which they work;
- Strengthened their analytical capacity to understand complex issues of national development strategy and to formulate more cost-effective steps towards equitable economic and social development; and
- Be able to write persuasively about conceptual and normative aspects of national and international political, economic, financial and social issues.
- This will be an analytical and applied seminar aiming to enhance understanding of views about national and international development strategies. Each session will include both teaching and small group and whole of class discussion. Students will be encouraged to identify issues which they would like to discuss.
Generic skills
Students will be expected to grow in capacity for effective participation in class discussion, in small group work and in essay writing through:
- Undertaking an adequate amount of reading and research about the prescribed topics using appropriate material;
- Speaking and writing lucidly, relevantly and coherently, using appropriate material;
- Demonstrating comprehension of the material read and studied for class, and during preparation for essays;
- Showing evidence of imaginative, creative and principled thought;
- Identifying the main issues involved in a subject and to explain them comprehensively and effectively;
- Writing a succinct and clear introduction to an essay and developing the argument in a rigorous, logical and well organised manner;
- Completing essays with a justified and well expressed conclusion;
- Writing lucidly, with accurate spelling and grammar.
Last updated: 31 January 2024
Eligibility and requirements
Prerequisites
This subject is core in the Master of Development Studies, and Head of Program approval is required for enrolment by Community Access Program (CAP), Inbound Exchange/Study Abroad or Incoming Cross-institutional students.
Corequisites
None
Non-allowed subjects
None
Recommended background knowledge
Code | Name | Teaching period | Credit Points |
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DEVT90009 | Development Theories | Semester 1 (Online) |
12.5 |
Inherent requirements (core participation requirements)
The University of Melbourne is committed to providing students with reasonable adjustments to assessment and participation under the Disability Standards for Education (2005), and the Assessment and Results Policy (MPF1326). Students are expected to meet the core participation requirements for their course. These can be viewed under Entry and Participation Requirements for the course outlines in the Handbook.
Further details on how to seek academic adjustments can be found on the Student Equity and Disability Support website: http://services.unimelb.edu.au/student-equity/home
Last updated: 31 January 2024
Assessment
Description | Timing | Percentage |
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An essay due after Week 5 of semester.
| after Week 5 of semester. | 40% |
An essay
| During the examination period | 60% |
Hurdle requirement: Students are required to attend a minimum of 80% of classes in order to pass this subject and regular class participation is expected. | Throughout the teaching period | N/A |
Additional details
Last updated: 31 January 2024
Dates & times
- Semester 1
Principal coordinator Denisse Rodriguez Quinonez Mode of delivery Dual-Delivery (Parkville) Contact hours 24 contact hours: A 2-hour seminar per week for 12 weeks. Total time commitment 170 hours Teaching period 28 February 2022 to 29 May 2022 Last self-enrol date 11 March 2022 Census date 31 March 2022 Last date to withdraw without fail 6 May 2022 Assessment period ends 24 June 2022 Semester 1 contact information
Time commitment details
170 hours
Additional delivery details
Admission to 097-AB Master of Development Studies or MC-IR Master of International Relations.
Last updated: 31 January 2024
Further information
- Texts
Prescribed texts
Bruce Currie-Alder, Ravi Kanbur, David M. Malone and Rohinton Medhora (Eds.), 2014, International Development: Ideas, Experience, and Prospects, Oxford, OUP.
- Related Handbook entries
This subject contributes to the following:
Type Name Course Master of Public Administration Course Master of Public Administration (Enhanced) Course Master of Development Studies Major Development Major Development - Links to additional information
Last updated: 31 January 2024