Culture and Development

DEVS 240/3.0

Overview

This course explores the relationship between 카지노 게임 컬렉션culture카지노 게임 컬렉션 and 카지노 게임 컬렉션development카지노 게임 컬렉션 as concepts and practices and where they intersect. We examine how meanings of 카지노 게임 컬렉션the West,카지노 게임 컬렉션 카지노 게임 컬렉션civilized,카지노 게임 컬렉션 카지노 게임 컬렉션development,카지노 게임 컬렉션 카지노 게임 컬렉션modernization,카지노 게임 컬렉션 카지노 게임 컬렉션progress,카지노 게임 컬렉션 카지노 게임 컬렉션poverty,카지노 게임 컬렉션 카지노 게임 컬렉션tradition,카지노 게임 컬렉션 카지노 게임 컬렉션First World카지노 게임 컬렉션 and 카지노 게임 컬렉션Third World카지노 게임 컬렉션 are constructed and contested concepts. The course will exam how culture has been thought of historically within development ideas and practice as well as its contemporary manifestations.  Moreover we examine how colonial perceptions and practices still imbue much development discourse today and how might they be more effectively challenged.

The course focuses on key sites where culture has been deployed to promote development and how these interact with economic policy and political change. Topics include human rights, tourism, digital culture, food, music and sports. Students will be able to research a wide range of other cultural phenomena as it relates to development for their major research project.

Please note: This course will have 1 hour of synchronous lecture per week. Attendance is optional as these lectures will be recorded and uploaded to the course in OnQ.

Learning Outcomes

Learning Outcomes

After completing DEVS 240, students will be better equipped to:

  • Identify, employ and analyze core analytic concepts pertaining to 카지노 게임 컬렉션culture카지노 게임 컬렉션 and 카지노 게임 컬렉션global development카지노 게임 컬렉션
  • Recall and describe how and why development is contested idea and how cultural dimensions are tied to its deployment for political and economic purposes.
  • Identify and breakdown cultural biases within global development discourses
  • Demonstrate through examinations, discussion forms and written work, the relationship between material and representational inequalities that shape 카지노 게임 컬렉션development카지노 게임 컬렉션
  • Analyze how culture is implicated in development policy and local political organizing
  • Communicate effectively about issues related to culture and global development through discussion, multimedia, and in academic writing

Topics

Module

Week

Topic

1. Introduction1What is Culture? What is Development? How do they matter together?
2. Culture and Development: Ideas and Practice2Colonialism, Culture, Orientalism, and "The West"
3Modernization Theory and the Invention of Poverty
4Globalization, Disjuncture, and Difference
5Hegemony and Cultural Policy
6Counter-Hegemony and Alternative Development
3. Culture and Development in Practice7Human Rights and Gender
8Working in Development
4. Topics in Culture and Development9Food
10Sport
11Digital Culture
12Course Summary

Terms

Fall 2024
Course Dates
카지노 게임 컬렉션
Delivery Mode
Online

Evaluation

AssessmentComponentsWeight
Critical Reflection ExercisePost2x10%
Reflect2x5% 
Search-and-SharePost and Comment (3)3x10%
Research Term PaperOutline5%
Paper30% 
Infographic5% 

**Evaluation Subject to Change**

Live Sessions

This course has optional live sessions (e.g. webinars, synchronous activities).

Textbook and Materials

ASO reserves the right to make changes to the required material list as received by the instructor before the course starts. Please refer to the Campus Bookstore website at  to obtain the most up-to-date list of required materials for this course before purchasing them.

There are no required texts for the course. All texts will be available online through the e-reserve system.

**Subject to change**
 

Time Commitment

Students can expect to spend, on average, about 9 hours per week completing relevant readings, assignments, and course activities.