An interdisciplinary collaborative postgraduate scheme in Development Studies started during 1999. Set book examinations are taken at faculty examinations. The unit deals with global environmental problems and their solutions, sustainable development and international environmental policies. It covers themes such as the intensification of the contacts between various parts of the world, the spread of world religions and disease, European colonialism and its impact on the Third World and examines how these were manisfested in the major regions of the world. The course consists lectures, readings and an essey.
Students choose books from each of the three groups.
Each book 2 ECTS credits unless otherwise stated. Different modalities of development assistance, their history and economic and political motivations are considered. It introduces the student to the main concepts and ideas of the project cycle and the logical framework within which projects are planned, managed and evaluated. A written essay based on the seminar presentation. Students present papers on topics that fall within the general area of development discourse and theory.