Module manager: Dr Markus Fraundorfer
Email: M.Fraundorfer@leeds.ac.uk
Taught: Semester 2 (Jan to Jun) View Timetable
Year running 2024/25
This module is approved as a discovery module
This module will extend and deepen students’ awareness of challenges in global development such as poverty, health, hunger, education, work and environmental sustainability. Concepts such as development, rights, and gender are introduced and used as critical tools to critically evaluate the different interpretations of the causes of those challenges, and understand how a wide range of actors respond. Throughout the module students will develop their abilities to analyse, synthesise and communicate ideas and information in formats relevant to professional contexts.
This module aims to: extend and deepen students’ awareness of challenges in global development, interpretations of the causes of those challenges, and to understand how a wide range of actors respond; provide opportunities to develop abilities to analyse, synthesise and communicate ideas and information in formats relevant to professional contexts
On successful completion of the module students will have demonstrated the following learning outcomes relevant to the subject:
1. Demonstrate a familiarity with the key contemporary challenges in global development across a range of country contexts.
2. Demonstrate awareness and critical understanding of the roles and responses of relevant development actors to those challenges
3. Demonstrated awareness of, and ability to use, evaluate and compare a diverse range of relevant information and research resources, including academic analyses, ‘grey’ and other policy materials.
Skills Learning Outcomes
On successful completion of the module students will have demonstrated the following skills learning outcomes:
1. Retrieve, organise, and produce summaries of information and/or data.
2. Assemble basic arguments and be able to evaluate the arguments of others.
3. Work and discuss with others in a collaborative manner.
4. Use digital technologies to retrieve data and information and to communicate this information to others.
Details of the syllabus will be provided on the Minerva organisation (or equivalent) for the module
| Delivery type | Number | Length hours | Student hours |
|---|---|---|---|
| Lecture | 22 | 1 | 22 |
| Seminar | 11 | 1 | 11 |
| Private study hours | 167 | ||
| Total Contact hours | 33 | ||
| Total hours (100hr per 10 credits) | 200 | ||
Seminar discussion and presentations will ensure students are up to speed with the weekly topics and seminar tutors will monitor for gaps in understanding and group discussions will help peer-to-peer learning. As well as deepening the week’s topic, the second lectures can be used each week to clarify any confusion and consolidate learning.
| Assessment type | Notes | % of formal assessment |
|---|---|---|
| Assignment | Coursework | 30 |
| Assignment | Coursework | 70 |
| Total percentage (Assessment Coursework) | 100 | |
Normally resits will be assessed by the same methodology as the first attempt, unless otherwise stated
The reading list is available from the Library website
Last updated: 8/28/2024
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