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This course is for students at the master programme in Development Geography. The students at this course go to the same classes as the students who attend the courses SGO4501 and SGO4502. For course description, see SGO4501 - Development Theory Course 1 and SGO4502 - Development Theory Course 2. In addition to this the students the students at DEVG312 spend some time reading additional texts on one theme within development theory, for instance poverty, sustainable development, urbanization and shelter, environment, migration, politics.
The objective of the course is to provide the students with a thorough theoretical understanding of global inequality and mass poverty. A major aim is the improvement of the students' ability to discuss and carefully present many different perspectives. Furthermore, enabling the students to distinguish between mainstream and “smallstream” paradigms and their theoretical “roots” is a major goal. Furthermore the objective is to take the pulse of contemporary development debates, identify central themes and analyse present-day positions in terms of the theoretical understanding. The aims are to enable the students to argue pro et con different positions in many debates, and to strived to be open to valid arguments in any paradigm.
Students who are admitted to study programmes or individual courses at UiO must each semester register which courses and exams they wish to sign up for by registering a study plan in StudentWeb.
International applicants, if you are not already enrolled as a student at UiO, please see our information about admission requirements and procedures for international applicants.
Students are expected to have a bachelor degree in Human Geography.
This course builds upon the following courses: SGO2500 - North/South - Development and SGO3400 - Utviklingsgeografi. These courses are not prerequisites.
The teaching consists of lectures and seminars. All teaching will be given in English.
The assessment for SGO4501 is a 6 hour unseen written exam. The assessment for SGO4502 is a 6 hour unseen written exam. In addition to the exam students must write a paper on one self-selected theme within development theory. The paper may be a maximum of 8 pages of main text (3300 words). The title of the paper must be accepted by the course leader.
Visiting address:
Harriet Holters hus, 2 etg.
Postal address:
Boks 1096 Blindern
0317 Oslo
Visiting hours:
Kl. 12-15 (I tiden 15. mai til 14. september stenger resepsjonen 14.30.)
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