globalisation_and_development_-_fasos_minor_2020-2021.pdf
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… minor: 1-3 ECTS credits in total of this minor: 24/30 Language of instruction: ENGLISH Teaching methods: PBL, Lectures, Skills, Work in subgroups, Presentation(s) Assessment methods: Assignment, Participation, Written exam, Attendance, Keywords: (or a short description why this minor is interesting) Globalisation, Development, the Global Goals for Sustainable Development, Colonialism, Inequality, the Agencies of development, Democratisation, Human Rights, Public health, HIV/AIDS, NGOs, Migration, … the structural failures of slum ecologies and how they affect people; and also how citizens nevertheless find myriad modes of making the city their home. Fundamentally, this course departs from the question what it takes to live and survive in a city when one is very poor, marginalized, silenced, made invisible, patronized, or otherwise rendered peripheral. We take these qualifications (poverty, marginalization etc.) to be effects of not only how cities are organized and governed, but also of … are connected with the preceding courses in period I and II. They have global and structural dimension as well as cultural, local and personal features. The topics students work on should have a present-day importance and can be approached from a more abstract and theoretical, as well as an empirical and/or historical perspectives. Students will work on a paper and discuss work in progress with fellow students and tutors in the various seminars/tutorials in the course. They will present their …