DVST9013 Applied Development Studies

Associate Professor Jane Haggis

2018

4.5

1 x 2-hour seminar weekly

1 ^ DVST9023 - Research Practice in Development Studies
1a DVST9020A - Research Induction
Must Satisfy: ((1 or 1a))

Master of Arts (International Development) by coursework

The topic provides a framework for students to draw together their academic and professional knowledge and experience and apply them to real-world problems of intention, application and evaluation currently confronting practitioners in International Development. Through a series of learning conversations under the theme of A Moral Economy of Development for the 21st Century: Policy, Program and Practice, students explore such issues as aid effectiveness; evaluating the Millennium Development Goals; the development professional and their role in development in order for students to hone their individual professional ethos to such issues. Underlying each of these sub-themes and the many issues embedded within them about intention, application, evaluation and outcomes, are questions about:

moral obligations and responsibilities;
power relations between the haves and have nots;
the rapidly changing nature of the global socio-economic formation;
what is an appropriate ethic of engagement in contemporary development?

Challenge students to integrate the knowledge and learning they have acquired in their postgraduate studies into a synthesis of professional knowledge and skills, via an engagement with current debates over practice.
Stimulate students to reflect on their own approach to professional practice and ethics.
Encourage a community of practice ethos, based on collaborative learning; co-development of professional resources and tools; and peer review.
Promote awareness of the complexity of social change and the development context.
Build competencies of students in problem solving in simulated 'real-world' change contexts.

Students will be able to

Discuss the main ethical challenges confronting global responses to inequality and development and their links to policy, programs and professional practice.
Identify the key areas of debate over practice in one thematic area covered in the Topic
Evaluate the relative merits of the perspectives in these debates
Apply at least one of these perspectives to a complex problem or issue in a selected thematic area
Develop and justify a set of recommendations on the issue to inform policy, program or practices intended to address the problem.

Key dates and timetable

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