Course Outline Summary

PART 1: Development in Theory: Meanings and Models

Week 1 Introductions and Definitions: Third World, South
countries, global economy

Week 2 Development in Theory 1: Colonial History and Population in
the South: past and present.

Week 3 Development in Theory 2: Paradigms and approaches to
understanding the Third World, the meaning of restructuring

Week 4 Third World Strategies: Models and Measures, crisis and
debt from non-alignment to free trade pacts, theoretical debate

PART 2: Development In Practice: Resources, cities and industry

Week 5 Rural Development, farming systems and agrarian structures: food,
environment, trade and crisis

Week 6 Mining and energy, export economies and oil

Week 7 Urbanization, megacities

Week 8 Manufacturing, exports and the global economy

PART 3: Presentations

Week 9 Class Paper Presentations

Week 10 Class Paper Presentations

Week 11 Class Paper Presentations [Final Exam Period]

Required Texts

Industrialization and Development, 1992, edited by T. Hewitt, H. Johnson and D.
Wield, Oxford University Press and the Open University, London, New York [ID]

Geography of the Third World, edited by John Dickenson, B. Gould;
C. Clarke, et al, Routledge, London New York, 1996, 2nd Edition.