Development Geography

Code:

MAF026

Acronym:

GD

Keywords
Classification	Keyword
OFICIAL	Geography

Instance: 2016/2017 - 2S

Active?	No
Responsible unit:	Department of History, Political and International Studies
Course/CS Responsible:	Masters in African Studies

Cycles of Study/Courses

Acronym	No. of Students	Study Plan	Curricular Years	Credits UCN	Credits ECTS	Contact hours	Total Time
MAF	0	MAF Study Plan	1	-	6	54	162

Teaching language

Portuguese

Objectives

Objectives
• To identify the stages of research studies in Development Geography.
• To Identify the major theoretical approaches and methodological tools of Development Geography.
Skills
• To identify and analyse geographically distinct types of economic and social situations in the 'global South'.
• To elaborate interpretative cartography
• To develop critical reading of thematic cartography

Learning outcomes and competences

The programmatic contents of the course of 'Development Geography' aim to respond to two types of problems associated with characterizingthe development of geographical places and regions: i) on the one hand, criticallyrecognize, in its current epistemological configuration, the continued action of a process of internal and external developments, dependent on relations with the other social sciences and, more generally, the social world that is part of; ii) on the other, to grasp the importance of scale in the development of places, countries and regions.

Working method

Presencial

Program

1. Geographical studies on development
2. Culture and development
3. The rural and urban contexts
4. The continental scale - globalization and neo-colonialism
5. The regional scale - nationalism and regional geopolitics
6. The local scale - history, culture and development conditions

Mandatory literature

Hodder, R. (2000) Development Geography. Routledge.
Power, M. (2003) Rethinking Development Geographies. Routledge.
Pimenta, J. R. et alii (2007) Geografias pós-coloniais. Figueirinhas.
Smith, N; Harvey, D. (2008) Uneven Development. Georgia University Press.

Teaching methods and learning activities

The modality of distributed evaluation allows a closer and continued relationship and between the teacher and students. Given the theoretical and practical characteristics of the research that will be used in the course, it is justified to promote a critical and systematic conceptual integration of the 'global North' and 'global South' as proper epistemic categories more than simple geographical designations.

Evaluation Type

Distributed evaluation without final exam

Assessment Components

Designation	Weight (%)
Teste	40,00
Trabalho escrito	40,00
Trabalho laboratorial	20,00
Total:	100,00

Amount of time allocated to each course unit

Designation	Time (hours)
Estudo autónomo	108,00
Frequência das aulas	54,00
Total:	162,00

Calculation formula of final grade

Test 40%
Field or laboratory work 20%
Written work 40%