History of Development Policy – Doctrines and Practices

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Expectations and Grading Information

• Active participation 30 %• Presentation 20 %• Course Paper/Oral Exam 50 %

• 16-04 1 Introduction • 23-04 2 Development? It’s History!• 23-04 3 Evening Meeting (20:00-21:30) Film

Viewing: Süsses Gift. Hilfe als Geschäft (Peter Heller 2012)

• 30-04 4 The Early Years of DevelopmentPresentation: Development as an Objective in the Early United Nations

• 07-05 5 The Take-Off of Development (1940s-1950s)

• Presentation: The Marshall Plan – A Model or an Exception?

• 07.05 6 Evening Meeting (18:30-20:00): Modernization Theory

• Presentation: The World Bank: The History of an Institution

• 14-05 Ascension Day/Christi Himmelfahrt

• 21-05 7 Practices of Development in the 1950s and 1960s

• Presentation: The Alliance for Progress• 28-05 Study Day• 04-06 Corpus Christi/Fronleichnam• 11-06 8 Alternative Interpretations and Critics • Presentation: Dependency Theory • 11-06 9 Evening Meeting (18:30-20:00) Film

Viewing: Population Boom (Werner Boote, 2014)• 18-06 10 Capabilities, Human Rights, Democracy• Presentation: Millenium Development Goals:

Aims and Achievements

Learning Outcomes

• Historical appreciation of the development of „development“ over the past 70 years

• Analysis of primary and secondary sources• Ability to better assess current development

practices• Practice ability to approach problems in an

interdisciplinary way• Have fun!