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Module details for 2025/26.

15 credits

FHEQ Level 4

Module Outline

This module introduces first year ID students to the evolution of International
Development as a global project from its post-Second World War origins to present day. It provides
students with a broad understanding of the evolution of the main features of the international policy
framework that governs development interventions at the global level and the paradigms that
underpin development strategy. We map out key moments - of innovation, crisis and reinvention - in
that evolution and shifts in thinking that underpin changes in global development agendas. We
identify the main characteristics and consequences of each policy agenda and examine alternative
ways of understanding their evolution and results, considering: whether these shifts have enhanced
global prosperity, well-being and stability; whether they have reduced poverty, inequality and
insecurity; who has benefitted from them, and who has been disadvantaged.

Module learning outcomes

Demonstrate a knowledge of underlying principles and concepts shaping
international development policy.

Develop an understanding of trends in development thinking.

Develop the ability to critically analyse and evaluate different approaches
to international development and identify different kinds of development
actors.

Demonstrate capacity to express own ideas and perspectives on
development policy and thinking.

Timing

Submission deadlines may vary for different types of assignment/groups of students.

Weighting

Coursework components (if listed) total 100% of the overall coursework weighting value.

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