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IDST 1001H: Human Inequality in Global Perspective: Introduction
A comparative and historical introduction to the basic ideas in international development studies, including the areas of global poverty and inequality; colonialism and decolonization; modernization, social change, and globalization; population and conflict; environment and climate change; and international development assistance.
A.H. Akram-Lodhi
IDST 1002H: Human Inequality in Global Perspective: Issues
An introduction to the basic issues in contemporary international development studies, including the areas of gender and social class; food and agriculture; industrialization and trade; forms of social provisioning; and civil society and democracy. These issues are examined from a comparative perspective, and illustrated using a case study.
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Course Format
Weekly lectures and tutorials.
Course Texts
Haslam, Paul, Schafer, Jessica and Beaudet, Pierre (2012) Introduction to International Development: Approaches, Actors and Issues (2ndedition), Don Mills: Oxford University Press.
Allen, Tim and Thomas, Alan (eds.) (2000) Poverty and Development Into the 21st Century (2nd edition), Oxford: Oxford University Press
Topics
IDST 1001H
Week 1:
What is international development?
Week 2:
The challenge: poverty and inequality in a globalizing world
Week 3:
Colonialism and development in the South and North, 1500 - 1950
Week 4:
Decolonization and state-building, 1950 - 1980
Week 5:
Structural adjustment and development dilemmas, 1980 - 1995
Week 6:
Mid-Term Test
Week 7:
Reading Week
Week 8:
Globalization and development, 1995 – 2014: rhetoric or reality?
Week 9:
Regulating globalization: the World Trade Organization and trade agreements
Week 10:
Climate change, ecology and sustainable development
Week 11:
Does the world have too many people?
Week 12:
Conflict and human development
Week 13:
International development assistance
IDST 1002H
Week 1:
Food and hunger: an irresistible force?
Week 2:
Industrialization: a development imperative?
Week 3:
Gender and human development
Week 4:
Health and development
Week 5:
Culture and development
Week 6:
Mid-Term Test
Week 7:
Reading Week
Week 8:
Civil Society and Democracy
Week 9:
Indigenous Peoples and Development
Week 10:
Country case study 1: pre-colonial history
Week 11:
Country case study 2: colonialism
Week 12:
Country case study 3: state-building and modernization
Week 13:
Country case study 4: contemporary challenges
For More Information
Course notes, assignments, and other details are available to enrolled students via myTrent >>blackboard. For more information regarding this course or if you have any other questions, please contact the International Development Studies department.