Gwybodaeth Modiwlau
Course Delivery
Delivery Type | Delivery length / details |
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Lecture | 18 x 1 hour |
Seminars / Tutorials | 8 Hours. (8 x 1 hour) |
Assessment
Assessment Type | Assessment length / details | Proportion |
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Semester Assessment | 2,500 word Country Report | 40% |
Semester Exam | 2 Hours Exam | 60% |
Supplementary Exam | Exam Students failing the module will repeat only the failed component(s); those re-sitting failed coursework are required to select a different essay/assignment title and must not submit re-written versions of the original essay/assignment. | 100% |
Learning Outcomes
On completion of the modules, students will be able to::
- critically assess the usefulness of the term the Third World
- account for some of the ways in which North-South relations impact on Third World affairs
- outline and analyse the various impacts of colonialism
- account for some of the key political and economic challenges facing Third World societies
- critically discuss the meaning of development and explain some contemporary development challenges
- critically discuss the meaning of security in the Third World and explain some contemporary security challenges
- effectively deploy skills of: identification and location of appropriate sources; independent study; writing (essays and examinations); IT skills plus time-management.
10 ECTS credits
Brief description
Content
Handouts will be provided at all lectures. They will be posted on Blackboard after the lecture is given. Students are encouraged to use the handouts as skeleton lecture notes, allowing them to concentrate on listening to the lecture and its argument.
Knowing the Third World
1. Who drew the maps? ¿ knowledge & names
2. Who knows best? ¿ an introduction to understanding power
Seminar exercise 1: real people in real places.
Colonialism
3. Colonialism ¿ what happened, where and its material consequences
4. Is colonialism over? ¿ global inequalities
Seminar exercise 2: exploitation and civilisation
5. Colonialism ¿ women¿s and men¿s experiences
6. Colonial ideas ¿ tourism and the Caribbean
Seminar exercise 3: the politics of gazing
Race
7. Slavery
8. Racism
Seminar exercise 4: continuities of slavery
9. Whiteness and acting white
10. Black and `third world¿ feminism
Seminar exercise 5: racism and the third world `population explosion¿
Development
11. The Idea of Development
12. The development `industry¿
Seminar exercise 6: Modern Missionaries? The international development NGO
13. Sustainability ¿ Development and the Environment
14. Do we need development?
Seminar exercise 7: Live aid, dead aid?
Democracy
15. Liberal Democracy & `Good Governance¿
16. Patronage politics
Seminar exercise 8: Desirable Democracies
17. Social movements
18. Indigenous challenge
Seminar exercise 9: People Power!
Aims
This course aims to introduce students to key political and social issues which condition the place of the Third World in politics by exploring the topics of colonialism, racism, development and democracy.
Transferable skills
Students will have the opportunity to develop, practice and test a wide range of transferable skills which will help them to understand, conceptualise and evaluate examples and ideas. Throughout the course, students should practice and enhance their reading, comprehension and thinking skills, as well as basic numeracy skills and self management skills. In lectures students will develop listening and note taking skills, as well as analytical skills. In seminars students will enhance their analytical skills and will practice listening, explaining and debating skills, as well as team work and problem solving. Essay writing will encourage students to practice their independent research, writing and IT skills, and the examination will test these skills under time constraint conditions.
Notes
This module is at CQFW Level 4