Course unit details:
Disasters and Development
Unit code | HCRI20011 |
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Credit rating | 20 |
Unit level | Level 2 |
Teaching period(s) | Semester 2 |
Available as a free choice unit? | Yes |
Overview
Pre/co-requisites
Aims
Learning outcomes
On successful completion of this module, a student will be expected to be able:
- To critically understand the interface between development and disasers;
- To interrogate what development means and how it is practicsed over time and in different contexts;
- To understand the intended and unintended consequences of various forms of development interventions and how they shape disaser risk and risk reduction;
- To understand the role of key international and local actors and agencies in development and disaster risk reduction.
Teaching and learning methods
Intellectual skills
- Deepen critical appraisal
- Appreciate differing methodological/conceptual perspectives
- Link theoretical/conceptual material with case study material
Practical skills
- Writing academic essays -
- Preparing and delivering presentations
- Debating and discussing
Transferable skills and personal qualities
- Working autonomously
- Working in teams
- Respecting different views
- Giving feedback to others
Employability skills
- Other
- - Editorial and analytical skills - Evidence-led decision-making - Putting together and maintaining arguments (useful for a marketing/awareness campaign or business case) - Oral and communication skills - especially in terms of comprehending large amounts of information and drawing reasoned conclusions - Meeting deadlines - Working autonomously and in groups
Assessment methods
Assessment Task | Formative or Summative |
Assessed group presentation (based on the idea of development-disaster nexus) | Summative |
Essay (based on 3-4 multiple choice questions/mini-cases) | Summative |
Feedback methods
Feedback method | Formative or Summative |
Informal verbal feedback during lectures and workshops. Additional one-to-one feedback (during office hours or by making an appointment) Formative feedback on essay plan (up to 1000 words) | Formative |
Written feedback on the presentations Written feedback on the essay | Summative |
Recommended reading
Achebe, C. (1986). Things fall apart. Heinemann.
Bankoff, G., Frerks, G., & Hilhorst, D. (2004). Mapping vulnerability: Disasters, development, and people. London: Earthscan.Chambers, R. (1997). Whose reality counts? : putting the first last. Practical Action Publishing.Chari, Sharad, and Stuart Corbridge. 2007. The development reader. Routledge
Cowen, M.P. and R.W. Shenton 1996. Doctrines of Development. London: Routledge
Deaton, Angus. 2013. The Great Escape: Health, Wealth and the Origins of Inequality. Princeton: Princeton University Press
Desai, V., & Potter, R. B. (2014). The companion to development studies (3rd edition.). Routledge.
Escobar, A. (2012). Encountering development : the making and unmaking of the Third World. Princeton University Press.
Kothari, U. (2005). A radical history of development studies : individuals, institutions and ideologies. Zed Books. (e-book available via the Manchester U Library)
Sen, A. K. (1999). Development as freedom (1st ed.). Knopf. (e-book available via the Manchester U Library) UNISDR 2000: Living with Risk, A global review of disaster reduction initiatives. http://www.undp.org/cpr/disred/documents/publications/isdr_livingwithrisk2002.pdf,
Study hours
Scheduled activity hours | |
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Lectures | 20 |
Practical classes & workshops | 10 |
Independent study hours | |
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Independent study | 170 |
Teaching staff
Staff member | Role |
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Omer Aijazi | Unit coordinator |