EPN-V2

Entity-oriented metadata Programme description

Programme name, Norwegian
Entitetsorienterte metadata
Valid from
2023 FALL
ECTS credits
10 ECTS credits
Duration
1 semester
Schedule
Here you can find an example schedule for first year students.
Programme history

  • Target group

    [Internt: Starting 2024/2025, this course is expanded to 15 ETCS, integrating key contents from the then-terminated UTVB3130 Recent trends in development assistance]

    The Faculty of Education and International Studies at Oslo Metropolitan University offers interdisciplinary courses leading to a Bacherlor's degree of 180 ECTS credits in Development Studies. This course on is at the intermediate level and represents a 15 ECTS credits module in the 5th semester of the Bachelor programme.

    If there are non-Scandinavian exchange students at the course, it will be taught in in English.

    The succeful completion of this course is a prerequisite for students wanting to apply for UTVB3901 Hospitering i utviklingsindustrien - med bacheloroppgave, in the sixth semester.

  • Admission requirements

    See programme description. The course is open to exchange students with relevant background upon request.

  • Content and structure

    LEARNING OUTCOMES

    At the end of the course the student has obtained the following learning outcome in terms of knowledge, skills and general competence:

    Knowledge

    The student

    • has knowledge of key types of development interventions - including official aid; policy coherence for development; advocacy and transnational activism; and corporate social responsibility.
    • has knowledge of key tendencies in the organization and aims of current development assistance - including new donors; coordination under the Sustainable Development Goals; the integration of aid with other global concerns (security, environment, and commerce) - and the overarching imperative of ensuring aid effectiveness.
    • has knowledge of how the development enterprise, as a field of practice, may be systematically and critically studied

    Skills

    The student

    • has the ability to critically discuss various types of aid development interventions and trends
    • understands the ethical challenges in the field of practice and in the study of this field

    General competence

    The student can

    • identify and make use of relevant literature in discussion of topics in the field
    • can give both written and oral presentations of a topic in the field, based on sound social sciences method
    Optional course Spans multiple semesters

    1st year of study

    1. semester

    Entity-oriented metadata
    VBINF6000 10.0 ECTS