International Development
Undergraduate Studies
The Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences offers two ways to study International Development: a Bachelor of International Development (ABID) for an intensive focus on Development issues, and an International Development major within the Bachelor of Arts degree (ABA).
The ABID curriculum is designed to provide students with a grounding in the historical, conceptual and practical issues of regional and world development. A series of compulsory core units in first and second year is capped in third year with a unit in which students learn about the nature of development projects, project proposal writing, and project research. This reflects an important goal of the course, which is to show the range of ways people can be involved in development, including careers, activism, advocacy and volunteer work. In addition to this goal, the ABID aims to equip students with a critical understanding of issues in development which they may use in such fields as teaching, journalism, and in government service or private enterprise on overseas programs. Details about the ABID are available in the University’s Undergraduate Handbook.
The ABA major offers students an understanding of issues in development such as different patterns of economic, social and practical development around the world, the reasons for different levels and rates of development, the emergence of newly industrialising countries, the links between gender and patterns of development and underdevelopment, and the problems of environmentally sustainable development. These issues are covered in subjects selected from anthropology, sociology, history, Asian Studies, politics, economics and Gender Studies. The BA major has fewer elements of a professional training program in development than the ABDS, but it does offer training in a number of skills which will be of use in a wide range of employment settings. Details of the Development Studies major is available in the University's Undergraduate Handbook.
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