NGO Education Survey
University of South Africa
Contact Information:
University of South Africa
G r a d u a t e S t u d i e s
Preller St
Pretoria
0002
South Africa
Sub-Saharan Africa
Africa
https://www.unisa.ac.za/sites/corporate/default
Development debates and Issues
Credit Bearing: 24Level: honours
To equip students with advanced knowledge and understanding of the contemporary field of development studies IN ORDER to understand global dynamics, recent debates, theories and selected topical and symptomatic issues.
Gender and Development
Credit Bearing: 24Level: honours
To equip students with systematic knowledge and understanding of debates and issues of gender and development at global, national and local levels. To also provide students with in-depth knowledge and skills to empower women and make them an integral part of a holistic approach to all development efforts.
Governance and Development
Credit Bearing: 24Level: honours
To equip students with comprehensive and systematic knowledge of themes of insecurity, risk and vulnerability in the development context; and also to provide students with in-depth knowledge and skills to assess and apply strategies and frameworks of human security.
Human Security and Development
Credit Bearing: 24Level: honours
To equip students with comprehensive and systematic knowledge of themes of insecurity, risk and vulnerability in the development context; and also to provide students with in-depth knowledge and skills to assess and apply strategies and frameworks of human security.
Research Methodology in Development Studies
Credit Bearing: 12Level: honours
To equip students with advanced knowledge and understanding of the contemporary field of research methodology in development studies.
Research Report in Development Studies
Credit Bearing: 36Level: honours
To equip students with advanced knowledge and practical experience of research in the field of development studies at the Honours level. Qualified students will be able to conduct competent basic research.
Sustainable Development: Policy, Practice and Environment
Credit Bearing: 24Level: honours
To equip students with well-rounded systematic knowledge and an understanding of key themes of sustainable development within the development context. Further, it is to provide students with in-depth knowledge and critical skills to assess and apply strategies and frameworks of sustainable development.
Community Development and the Basic Needs Approach
Credit Bearing: 12Level: undergraduate
To enable students to demonstrate an understanding of the process and dynamics of community development by linking related concepts and theories to practice.
Development Planning
Credit Bearing: 12Level: undergraduate
To gain insight into development planning theories and practices by reading texts and case studies on various approaches, actors and methods.
Development Policy and Strategies
Credit Bearing: 12Level: undergraduate
To gain insight into the process of formulating development policies and strategies at local, national and international levels, and to analyse the dynamics and issues of policy implementation.
Development Problems and Institutions
Credit Bearing: 12Level: undergraduate
The purpose of this module is to introduce students to integrated development problems. Those who complete this module will be able to identify, evaluate, reflect on and develop schemes to address development problems. The module considers development in the global South in general and in Africa in particular, and will focus on local solutions. Projects and Programmes as Instruments of Development - DVA2601 Under Graduate Degree Semester module NQF level: 6 Credits: 12 Module presented in English Purpose: To enable students insight into projects and programmes as instruments of development, and an understanding of functions and management techniques used in the development context.
Development Theories
Credit Bearing: 12Level: undergraduate
To introduce students to key development theories and enable them to demonstrate understanding by comparing theories and by linking them to practical situations.
Empowerment and Popular Initiatives
Credit Bearing: 12Level: undergraduate
To gain insight into various debates on empowerment and popular initiatives, and to analyse concepts concerned with empowerment and popular initiatives in development.
Introduction to Development Studies
Credit Bearing: 12Level: undergraduate
To help students gain insight into basic concepts in the field of development studies.
Projects and Programmes as Instruments of Development
Credit Bearing: 12Level: undergraduate
To enable students insight into projects and programmes as instruments of development, and an understanding of functions and management techniques used in the development context.
Rural Development
Credit Bearing: 12Level: undergraduate
To introduce students to debates and issues concerning rural development. Those who complete this module will be able to identify, evaluate, critically reflect on and address complex rural problems.
Urban Development
Credit Bearing: 12Level: undergraduate
To equip students with knowledge and skills required to foster an understanding of debates on urban sustainable development and related trends in the global South. Those who complete this module will be able to identify, evaluate, critically reflect on and address complex socio-economic problems and issues of sustainable development in urban spaces.
Program Information:
College of Human Sciences
Degree and Certificate Information
Degrees
Degree: Master of Arts in Development Studies
Working Language: English
Degree: Bachelor of Arts in Community Development
Working Language: English
Degree: Doctor of Philosophy in Development Studies
Working Language: English
Degree: Bachelor of Arts Honours in Development Studies
Working Language: English
Degree: Bachelor of Arts in Development Studies
Working Language: English
Certificates
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Additional Information
Development Studies is a multidisciplinary subject that incorporates all aspects of development throughout the world, more specifically, the developing world. The initial emphasis falls on the rather diverse concept of poverty and all its manifestations. This subject addresses the numerous global challenges that are faced in the developing world and identifies the possible solutions. Development Studies as a study field deals with development efforts through reform, capacity building and empowerment. The study of this subject will be of great value to all those who are involved in one way or another in development. This holds true for the person responsible for the day to day management of development, but also for the policy maker and the strategic manager. A knowledge of this subject can also be put to good use by personnel officers in the private sector and the public sector at local, provincial and national level. This subject endeavours to create "new professionalism" among those involved in development that will enable people at the grassroots level to take responsibility for their own development. Finally, this subject can give context and understanding for the person not directly involved in development, but nonetheless fulfilling a function in developing countries such as South Africa. The purpose of this qualification include: to familiarise learners with the content and basic theories of a number of disciplines in the humanities and social sciences, at the basic and intermediate level, and to provide them with a deeper grasp of one or more of these disciplines taken at exit level (level 6), as well as to enable them to place new knowledge in context and to use appropriate methods for seeking resolution of problems; To provide learners with a variety of basic scholarly and intellectual competencies, including the ability to question critically the assumptions of a limited range of theories and authorities, and to develop an understanding of elementary research methods used within one or more disciplines; To equip learners with the ability to give an accurate account of scholarly positions and the competence to express their own opinions clearly and coherently, both in written and oral communication; To prepare learners for post learner study; To provide learners with a well-rounded and broad education across a number of disciplines, thus preparing them for a wide range of professions crucial to the welfare of society; To produce learners who are able to think laterally, critically and creatively; To produce learners who are prepared for life-long learning; To produce learners who understand the principles of, and are capable of critical citizenship.