It is concerned with the key debates regarding social and economic transformation, and issues like the structure-agency debate, the different conceptions of power, etc. Both the broader debates regarding rural development questions and specific issues concerned with land reform and agricultural policies are dealt with in this module. The focus is on the relevance of the developmental experience of other countries for the process of socio-economic transformation in South Africa. This module is also usually required. This module investigates the assumed relation between education and development.
Special attention is given to policy issues and education in rural areas.
This module analyses the process of formulating appropriate policies for achieving socially sanctioned goals through planned change. In this module students are given an overview of the various traditions in the philosophy of science, and are challenged to critically analyse their own methodological commitments. In this module the possibility of restructuring public finance policies to deal with poverty and inequality is investigated. The main scope of this module is to study the problems of Economic Management of the Southern African resources, concentrating on the renewable ones. This module critically investigates the social policies in place in South Africa in the light of the changing socio-economic challenges.