ADS734 - Geopolitics and Political Economy of Development

Unit details

Year:

2024 unit information

Enrolment modes:

Trimester 2: Burwood, Online, Community Based Delivery (CBD)*

Credit point(s):1
EFTSL value:0.125
Unit Chair:Max Kelly
Cohort rule:Nil
Prerequisite:

Nil

Corequisite:Nil
Incompatible with: AID231, AID331, AID731, AID734
Typical study commitment:

Students will on average spend 150-hours over the teaching period undertaking the teaching, learning and assessment activities for this unit.

This will include educator guided online learning activities within the unit site.

Educator-facilitated (scheduled) learning activities - on-campus unit enrolment:

1 x 1-hour class (livestreamed with recordings provided) per week, 1 x 1-hour seminar (livestreamed with recordings provided) per week

Educator-facilitated (scheduled) learning activities - online unit enrolment:

Online independent and collaborative learning activities equivalent to 1 x 1-hour per week

Note:

*Community Based Delivery (CBD) is for National Indigenous Knowledges, Education, Research and Innovation NIKERI Institute students only.

Content

This unit explores crises and development through geopolitical and political economy lenses. It considers how international institutions, laws, systems, structures, and economies impact humanitarian and development work from both the global and contextual scales. The unit explores International legal frameworks (sovereignty, international humanitarian law, humanitarian intervention, peacekeeping), Geopolitical systems and structures (UN approaches, power and foreign policy, securitisation and counter-terrorism) , Political economy of crisis and development (economic crises, globalisation, political economy of aid).

In this unit, students will learn about the legal basis for development and humanitarian response. They will also explore legal tools that enable development and humanitarian action, while critically unpacking the legal basis for why ‘we [the international community] don’t just do something.’ The unit provides an overview and history of the United Nations as it applies to development and humanitarianism – namely peacekeeping, the role of the security council, and its approaches to organising short-term crisis response alongside longer term goals. Finally, the unit delves into issues of political economy of crisis and development, using political economy lenses to interrogate not only the response to challenges but also their root causes.

ULO These are the Learning Outcomes (ULO) for this unit. At the completion of this unit, successful students can: Deakin Graduate Learning Outcomes
ULO1

Students will demonstrate discipline specific, critical thinking and problem solving skills, and will be required to demonstrate a degree of self-management in undertaking research and in communication in the presented final form

GLO1: Discipline-specific knowledge and capabilities

GLO2: Communication

GLO4: Critical thinking

GLO5: Problem solving

GLO6: Self-management

ULO2

Students are required to apply their knowledge of discipline-specific subject matter to a particular case study

GLO1: Discipline-specific knowledge and capabilities

GLO2: Communication

GLO4: Critical thinking

GLO5: Problem solving

GLO6: Self-management

ULO3

Apply a critical understanding of key debates about the relationship between politics and development in the global South to a particular case study

GLO1: Discipline-specific knowledge and capabilities

GLO4: Critical thinking

ULO4

Communicate ideas clearly and coherently via essay writing and/or case study presentation

GLO2: Communication

Assessment

Assessment Description Student output Grading and weighting
(% total mark for unit)
Indicative due week
Assessment 1: Essay 2500 words 50% Information not yet available
Assessment 2: Essay/Report 2500 words 50% Information not yet available

The assessment due weeks provided may change. The Unit Chair will clarify the exact assessment requirements, including the due date, at the start of the teaching period.

Learning Resource

The texts and reading list for the unit can be found on the University Library via ADS734
Note: Select the relevant trimester reading list. Please note that a future teaching period's reading list may not be available until a month prior to the start of that teaching period so you may wish to use the relevant trimester's prior year reading list as a guide only.

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