DEVT 3003 - Rights and Development

North Terrace Campus - Winter - 2016

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This course is about human rights and international development, and about how these two parts of the international system increasingly intersect in a number of different ways. This intersection is an outcome, on the one hand, of the fact that human rights instruments, and the institutions which enforce these, have greatly expanded in recent decades, to now engage with a much wider range of (especially) social issues. On the other hand, `rights-based approaches? to international development have become increasingly influential in development policy circles over the past twenty years ? and they now inform much of the work of many official and non-government development organisations (including UN agencies and key bilateral donors such as DFID and AusAID). This course provides an introduction both to human rights, especially as these apply to questions of social change, and to rights-based approaches to international development. Through a series of empirically-rich case studies taken from across the developing world, we look at the approaches of both of these areas, and examine debates surrounding them. In this way, the course addresses key questions such as: What are human rights, how can these be applied, and what effects do they produce in practice? What are the main features of rights-based approaches to international development and how do these differ from other approaches? How are rights-based approaches received (and perceived) by their target audiences? What are the limits of human rights; how, when and why might they not be applicable? In attempting to answer these and related questions, the course looks at a range of literatures, but focuses in particular upon the contributions made by the anthropology of human rights and international development.

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Course Details

Course Code	DEVT 3003
Course	Rights and Development
Coordinating Unit	Anthropology and Development Studies
Term	Winter
Level	Undergraduate
Location/s	North Terrace Campus
Units	3
Contact	Up to 3 hours per week
Available for Study Abroad and Exchange	Y
Prerequisites	At least 6 units of level 2 undergraduate study
Incompatible	DEVT 2002
Assessment	Tutorial participation 10%, Policy essay 40%, Long essay 50%

Course Staff

Course Coordinator: James Chalmers

Dr Andrew Skuse

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Learning Outcomes
Course Learning Outcomes
1. Provide an understanding of the broad nature of multi-disciplinary studies of human rights and international development
2. Develop of knowledge of and insight into key issues and concerns of human rights policy, practice and theory
3. Foster the ability to understand the history and application of key theoretical approaches to human rights and international development
4. To develop the ability to critically evaluate central themes, propositions and concepts in these fields
5. To develop the skills to work collaboratively in teams as well as individually in a learning and research environment
6. To foster an interest in and commitment to continuous learning and social scientific research
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Grade	Mark	Description
FNS		Fail No Submission
F	1-49	Fail
P	50-64	Pass
C	65-74	Credit
D	75-84	Distinction
HD	85-100	High Distinction
CN		Continuing
NFE		No Formal Examination
RP		Result Pending

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