Overview

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Offerings

MURDOCH-S2-EXT-2023-2024
MURDOCH-S2-FACE2FACE-2025-ONGOING
MURDOCH-S2-INT-2023-2024
MURDOCH-S2-ONLINEFLEX-2025-ONGOING
OUA-S2-EXT-2024-2024
OUA-S2-ONLINEFLEX-2025-ONGOING

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Learning outcomes

1.

Read widely and actively participate in discussions concerning the nature of interactions between development agencies and target communities within the developed and the developing world and thereby gain a detailed picture of what international aid entails.

2.

Demonstrate a critical understanding of the principal concepts theories and practices of overseas aid and international development

3.

Learn to think critically about recent debates informing development, the motivations behind international aid and the attendant difficulties in its delivery.

4.

Understand why overseas aid and international development remain so contested within international relations and such a problematic context for altruistic notions of help.

5.

Work both independently, and collaboratively in a respectful manner with a range of people

6.

Communicate effectively both orally and in writing.

Assessments

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Additional information

Unit content:This unit will cover a diverse range of topics on aid and development, grand theories underpinning development ideologies and practice, Sustainable Development Goals, and a range of topical development issues, for example, fair trade, new development actors, global epidemics like ebola, participatory development, with themes such as gender, poverty, power, and structural inequality central to each topic.