Designing Alternatives for Development (010IDS)

30 credits, Level 6

Spring teaching

On this module, you’ll gain the skills to design sustainability and social justice development projects, within and beyond development institutions. The module examines drivers of change within current development agendas and policies. It deploys decolonial, feminist, queer and diverse economies approaches. You will:

• explore multiple ways to transform relations of production, finance, social reproduction, care and common resource management
• draw on case studies from the Global South and North
• identify ways out of development quandaries which can be applied in future work places

You’ll be invited to design innovate responses to concrete development challenges in real-life scenarios through creative critical thinking and problem-solving.

Contact hours and workload

This module is approximately 300 hours of work. This breaks down into about 33 hours of contact time and about 267 hours of independent study. The University may make minor variations to the contact hours for operational reasons, including timetabling requirements.

We regularly review our modules to incorporate student feedback, staff expertise, as well as the latest research and teaching methodology. We’re planning to run these modules in the academic year 2025/26. However, there may be changes to these modules in response to feedback, staff availability, student demand or updates to our curriculum.

We’ll make sure to let you know of any material changes to modules at the earliest opportunity.

Courses

This module is offered on the following courses:

• Anthropology and International Development BA
• Economics and International Development BA
• Geography and International Development BA
• International Development BA
• International Development with a Language BA
• International Relations and Development BA
• Sociology and International Development BA