ECON3171: DEVELOPMENT ECONOMICS
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Type | Tied |
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Level | 3 |
Credits | 20 |
Availability | Available in 2024/2025 |
Module Cap | |
Location | Durham |
Department | Economics |
Prerequisites
- EITHER Macroeconomics (ECON2011) AND Microeconomics (ECON2021) OR Economic Theory (ECON2291)
Corequisites
- None.
Excluded Combinations of Modules
- None.
Aims
- To provide students with insights into some of the key issues affecting the development of countries.
- To stimulate students to study, present and debate their own ideas and analyses of these issues.
- To widen students' perceptions of the world and of the applicability of economic science and to motivate them to retain that perception.
- To provide the opportunity for students to build on knowledge and key skills acquired in their second year studies.
Content
- Content will include the relationship between the development of countries and topics such as:
- Structural transformation,
- Climate change,
- Agriculture and famines,
- Poverty and inequality,
- Physical capital and technology,
- Human capital,
- Demography,
- Internal and international labour migration,
- Formal and informal institutions,
- International trade and openness,
- Natural resources,
- Foreign aid.
Learning Outcomes
Subject-specific Knowledge:
- Theories, controversies, policies and case studies of how countries attempt to grow and develop over time.
Subject-specific Skills:
- Application of economic analysis to lower income countries
Key Skills:
- critical and analytical thinking
- problem solving
- written communication
- own learning
- working with numbers
- working with others
- bibliographic search and information retrieval.
Modes of Teaching, Learning and Assessment and how these contribute to the learning outcomes of the module
- Teaching is by lectures and seminars. Learning takes place through attendance at lectures; preparation and participation in seminar classes and private study.
- Formative assessment is by means of a written assignment.
- Summative assessment is by means of a written assignment.
Teaching Methods and Learning Hours
Activity | Number | Frequency | Duration | Total | Monitored |
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Lectures | 20 | 10 in term 1, 10 in term 2 | 1 hour | 20 | |
Seminars | 8 | 4 in term 1, 4 in term 2 | 1 hour | 8 | Yes |
Preparation and Reading | 172 | ||||
Total | 200 |
Summative Assessment
Component: Assignment | Component Weighting: 100% | ||
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Element | Length / Duration | Element Weighting | Resit Opportunity |
One written assignment | 4,000 words | 100 | Same |
Formative Assessment
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