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DVST6904: Rethinking Poverty
2024 unit information
Poverty reduction has always been a central development goal. Major international programs such as the UN's Millennium Goals place poverty at their centre. New explanatory concepts such as social exclusion, capability, social capital and sustainability have considerably expanded our thinking about its nature. Students will examine cases from many parts of the world of the way discourses, policies and development practices operate together, enabling an evaluation of contemporary approaches to poverty and their effects on those most vulnerable.
Unit details and rules
Managing faculty or University school:
Anthropology
| Code | DVST6904 |
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| Academic unit | Anthropology |
| Credit points | 6 |
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At the completion of this unit, you should be able to:
- LO1. demonstrate an historically and culturally informed understanding of poverty and development
- LO2. illustrate and understand the structural causes poverty and the lived experience of poverty
- LO3. demonstrate a critical approach to development practices and discourses
- LO4. interrogate development concepts, apply contextual examples to them and consider development solutions, and to do this through both group work and individual research
- LO5. demonstrate mature and informed way of communicating development problems and solutions to both an intellectual and general audience
- LO6. identify the literature and resources relevant to a research problem.
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Semester 2 2024
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Normal day | Camperdown/Darlington, Sydney |
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