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Post-Conflict Development and Difference (GEOG20012)

Undergraduate level 2Points: 12.5On Campus (Parkville)

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Citizens of post-conflict nation states often experience a range of rapid social, economic and environmental changes. This creates new challenges and very often new conflicts. This subject provides an introduction to the sub-discipline of critical development geography and uses its concepts and perspectives to examine post-conflict development in the Asia Pacific region, focusing on East Timor and Cambodia. It asks how ideas of social and cultural difference are deployed, experienced and (re)negotiated by a range of more and less powerful actors. The subject will foreground various processes – of nation-building and humanitarian intervention, urban and rural development, memory activism, justice and accountability mechanisms, ethnicity and race relations, and environment resource contestation – across a series of case study sites.

Intended learning outcomes

At the completion of this subject, students will have achieved the following:





  • A broad knowledge of development geography’s major concepts, theoretical perspectives and key debates
  • An understanding of the dynamic and complex connections between post-conflict societies, development processes, agents and environments, across a variety of scales
  • Research skills to enable the investigation of post-conflict development processes and problems
  • Understanding of some country-specific experiences of conflict and post-conflict development

Generic skills

Upon successful completion of this subject, students will have skills in:

  • reading, writing and speaking in theoretical terms
  • conducting library searches for relevant, critical literatures
  • using a case study approach to explore larger processes and problems

Last updated: 22 November 2023

Eligibility and requirements

Prerequisites

None

Corequisites

None

Non-allowed subjects

None

Recommended background knowledge

Completion of 50 points at Level 1 subjects.

This subject is a level 2 subject designed for students who have experience in writing essays of up to 1,000 words at University level. It is recommended that students have successfully completed at least 25 points of level 1 or level 2 subjects that include essay based assessment.

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: 22 November 2023

Assessment

DescriptionTimingPercentage

A review essay

  • 1500 words
Week 535%

Tutorial presentations and participation

  • 500 words (equivalent)
From Week 2 to Week 1115%

Weekly reflections on lectures (dot points for 10 tutorials)

From Week 2 to Week 1210%

A take home exam

  • 2000 words
During the examination period40%

Last updated: 22 November 2023

Dates & times

  • Semester 1
    CoordinatorRachel Hughes
    Mode of deliveryOn Campus (Parkville)
    Contact hoursA 2 hour lecture and a 1 hour tutorial
    Total time commitment170 hours
    Teaching period27 February 2023 to 28 May 2023
    Last self-enrol date10 March 2023
    Census date31 March 2023
    Last date to withdraw without fail 5 May 2023
    Assessment period ends23 June 2023

    Semester 1 contact information

    hughesr@unimelb.edu.au

Time commitment details

170 hours

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Last updated: 22 November 2023

Further information

Last updated: 22 November 2023