Duration
30h Th
Number of credits
Lecturer
Language(s) of instruction
French language
Organisation and examination
Teaching in the first semester, review in January
Schedule
Units courses prerequisite and corequisite
Prerequisite or corequisite units are presented within each program
Learning unit contents
First part
- Presentation of the historical dimension of the North-South relationship: colonial interventions and the birth of the notion of development.
- Putting concepts of development, underdevelopment and co-operation towards development into perspective, using theoretical principles of development and the relevant political and institutional contexts.
- In conclusion, the following question will be addressed: How can current paradigms of international co-operation be situated and understood?
- The socio-anthropology of contemporary interventions in developing countries through international aid and co-operation policies and interventions of development and partnership institutions.
Learning outcomes of the learning unit
- Knowledge of the evolution of main theories of development, international co-operation and North-South relationships.
- Acquisition of a capacity for historical, comparative and critical analysis of speeches, ideologies and methods used by co-operation institutions and development programmes.
Prerequisite knowledge and skills
An interest in the problems of development in the South. The course was originally designed in the context of a DES.
Planned learning activities and teaching methods
None
Mode of delivery (face-to-face ; distance-learning)
Direct teaching: presentations, interventions by researchers.
Recommended or required readings
- First part: a reading portfolio will be distributed at the beginning of the course
- Second part: Jean-Pierre Olivier de Sardan, Anthropologie et développement. Karthala Editions, Paris, 2003.
- Third part : Reading textbook portolio (PULg)
Assessment methods and criteria
- First session: individual written exam, open questions.
- Second session: Individual oral exam.
Work placement(s)
Organizational remarks
Students will be systematically invited to take part in conferences, seminars etc organised in the department or in relation to University co-operation activities.
Contacts
Lecturer :
Prof. Marc Poncelet
Tel.: 04 366 30 74
Marc.Poncelet@ulg.ac.be
Assistant:
Noémie Lambert
n.lambert@uliege.be
Secretary :
Marina Salerno
Tel.: 04 366 31 61
Marina.Salerno@ulg.ac.be