Content and teaching | Assessment | Availability

Module content and teaching

Principal aims

This module aims to: introduce you to issues pertaining to the politics of development; provide you with an overview of the literature in this field; encourage you to sift through relevant materials, make an argument, and defend it by presenting your views in seminars and written work; provide a space in seminars for critical thinking on the politics of development.

Principal learning outcomes

At the end of the module: you should be familiar with both the main theoretical arguments and key substantive issues central to the politics of development; you should have gained knowledge of different trajectories of social, economic and political development in particular developing countries; you should be able to assess the various models of development and state, explain and defend your preferred model; you should be able to conduct high-quality research on issues of development, utilising print, database and web resources, as well as key statistical indicators of development; you should be able to present your theoretical and empirical work in a coherent manner – both verbally in seminars, and through your written work.

Timetabled teaching activities

This module runs throughout terms 1, 2 and 3. 1 lecture and 1 seminar per week.

Departmental link

http://www2.warwick.ac.uk/fac/soc/pais/studyundergrad/ugmodules/po203

Module assessment

Assessment group	Assessment name	Percentage
15 CATS (Module code: PO203-15)
A (Assessed work only)	Assessed Course Work	100%

Module availability

This module is available on the following courses:

Core

N/A

Optional Core

N/A

Optional

• Undergraduate Economics, Politics and International Studies (LM1D) - Year 2
• Undergraduate Economics 4 Year Variants (LM1H) - Year 2
• Undergraduate Politics with International Studies (M160) - Year 2
• Undergraduate French with International Studies (R1MA) - Year 2
• Undergraduate Philosophy, Politics and Economics (V7ML) - Year 2
• Undergraduate Philosophy, Politics and Economics (V7MP) - Year 2
• Undergraduate Philosophy, Politics and Economics (V7MR) - Year 2
• Undergraduate History and Politics (VM11) - Year 2
• Undergraduate Language, Culture and Communication (X3Q5) - Year 2