Introduction:
This course is designed to provide a systematic and theoretical study of the political and social economic context of the problems of development and under development; dependency and international and internal economic structures; analysis of profound change; agents of change and constraints and problems contingent on rapid social economic change, with specific reference to post-colonial African states but also comparison with Latin American and Asian countries, among others.
Learning Objectives:
To expose the students to the contending issues on development and underdevelopment and the consequent dependence of the Third World Countries.
Learning outcomes:
1.
Student will be able to learn Max Weber's origin of development.
2. Emile Durkheim’s origin of development
3. Identify the stages of development
4. Identify both the Liberal and Marxist conceptions of development
5. Identify both Liberal and Marxist perspective of underdevelopment
6. Explain Paul Baran’s Root of Backwardness
7. Identify A.G Frank’s Capitalist development of underdevelopment
8. Explain theories of underdevelopment (Walter Rodney’s How Europe Underdeveloped Africa)
9. Factors responsible for African Underdevelopment, etc.
- Lecturer : desmond onwo