Post-Conflict Development and Difference (GEOG20012)
Undergraduate level 2Points: 12.5On Campus (Parkville)
Overview
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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: 14 March 2025
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: 14 March 2025
Assessment
| Description | Timing | Percentage |
|---|---|---|
A review essay
| Week 5 | 35% |
Tutorial presentations and participation
| From Week 2 to Week 11 | 15% |
Weekly reflections on lectures (dot points for 10 tutorials) | From Week 2 to Week 12 | 10% |
A take home assessment
| During the examination period | 40% |
Last updated: 14 March 2025
Dates & times
- Semester 1
Coordinator Rachel Hughes Mode of delivery On Campus (Parkville) Contact hours A 2 hour lecture and a 1 hour tutorial Total time commitment 170 hours Teaching period 3 March 2025 to 1 June 2025 Last self-enrol date 14 March 2025 Census date 31 March 2025 Last date to withdraw without fail 9 May 2025 Assessment period ends 27 June 2025 Semester 1 contact information
Time commitment details
170 hours
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Last updated: 14 March 2025
Further information
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- Breadth options
This subject is available as breadth in the following courses:
- Bachelor of Biomedicine
- Bachelor of Commerce
- Bachelor of Design
- Bachelor of Environments
- Bachelor of Fine Arts (Acting)
- Bachelor of Fine Arts (Animation)
- Bachelor of Fine Arts (Dance)
- Bachelor of Fine Arts (Film and Television)
- Bachelor of Fine Arts (Music Theatre)
- Bachelor of Fine Arts (Production)
- Bachelor of Fine Arts (Screenwriting)
- Bachelor of Fine Arts (Theatre)
- Bachelor of Fine Arts (Visual Art)
- Bachelor of Music
- Bachelor of Science
- Available through the Community Access Program
About the Community Access Program (CAP)
This subject is available through the Community Access Program (also called Single Subject Studies) which allows you to enrol in single subjects offered by the University of Melbourne, without the commitment required to complete a whole degree.
Please note Single Subject Studies via Community Access Program is not available to student visa holders or applicants
Entry requirements including prerequisites may apply. Please refer to the CAP applications page for further information.
- Available to Study Abroad and/or Study Exchange Students
Last updated: 14 March 2025