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AIS302
1 x 1-hour on-campus lecture per week
1 x 1-hour on-campus seminar per week
1 x 1-hour online lecture per week (recordings provided)
1 x 1-hour online seminar per week
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.
This unit asks urgent and important questions about why it is that some parts of the world are poor while others are rich. With human suffering, power and inequality as its central concerns, the unit covers key historical and contemporary processes that contribute to these dire social, political and economic problems. The unit is organized into three modules: colonialism, capitalism and development. It explores these ideas in historical and conceptual terms, and draws extensively on case studies from Africa and Latin America, with some case studies also from Asia. Assessment tasks allow students to develop a deep knowledge about a country of their choice.
Alignment to Deakin Graduate Learning Outcomes (GLOs)
Accurately define and explain colonialism, capitalism and development, including contestations around the conceptualization of these terms, in general and in an applied manner
GLO1: Discipline-specific knowledge and capabilities
GLO4: Critical thinking
Critically analyse the impact of colonialism, capitalism and development on a country of the global South
Understand and explain the contribution of post-colonial theory, international political economy and development theories to real-life practices of the private, public, or non-government sectors
GLO5: Problem solving
GLO8: Global citizenship
Effectively use data from international and national organisations to understand development challenges facing countries with which the student is unfamiliar.
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.
The texts and reading list for AIP211 can be found via the University Library. 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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