EPN-V2

UTVB3130 Nye retninger i utviklingsbistand Emneplan

Engelsk emnenavn
Recent Trends in Development Assistance
Studieprogram
Bachelorstudium i utviklingsstudier
Omfang
10.0 stp.
Studieår
2019/2020
Emnehistorikk

Innledning

The course description was approved 24.05.2018 by the Academic Affairs Committee, Faculty of Education and International Studies. Valid from autumn semester 2018.

The Faculty of Education and International Studies at Oslo and Akershus University College of Applied Sciences (HiOA) offers interdisciplinary courses in Development Studies and North-South relations, leading to a Bacherlor's degree in Development Studies of 180 ECTS credits. This course on Recent Trends in Development Assistance is at the intermediate level and represents a 10 ECTS credits module in the 5th semester of the bachelor programme.

The course will be taught in English (or Norwegian, depending on needs according to the participants' language abilities). The exam papers can be written in English, Norwegian, Swedish or Danish.

Forkunnskapskrav

The course is open to students who have completed at least a one-year introductory course in Development Studies at either HiOA, the University of Agder or equivalent courses at other universities/university colleges in Norway or abroad.

Læringsutbytte

At the end of the course the student has obtained the following learning outcome:

Knowledge

The student

  • has knowledge of central tendencies in the organization and aims of current development assistance, regarding:
  • new actors in international aid
  • aid and the Sustainable Development Goals
  • the integration of international aid with other global concerns ("environmentalization" and "securitization")
  • the "marketization" of aid
  • the effects of aid in recipient countries

Skills

The student

  • has the ability to analyse and compare current ideas and strategies for development assistance
  • has the ability to analyse the interplay between different actors in development programmes
  • can analyse the effects of aid in recipient countries

General competence

The student

  • is able to formulate central issues regarding overall development objectives and strategies and modalities to achieve them
  • is able to discuss how development assistance and its organization may impact positively as well as negatively negatively on recipient countries

Innhold

The course will cover key issues of international development assistance as it is currently organized. It will focus on processes and trends internationally and in recipient countries. Focus will be on the way aid is organized and implemented today. These issues will be illustrated through empirical case studies from Asia, Africa and Latin America.

The following themes will be included:

  • Key actors in development assistance (non-traditional donors, multilateral organizations, for-profit actors)
  • Aid and the Sustainable Development Goals (with an emphasis on health and education)
  • New modalities of aid (budget support and performance-based aid)
  • The "environmentalization", "securitization" and "marketization" of aid
  • The effects of aid for recipient countries

Arbeids- og undervisningsformer

Praksisstudiet innhold skal gjennomføres i nært og forpliktende samarbeid mellom praksisbarnehager, praksislærere i barnehagen, studenter og faglærere på universitetet.

Arbeidskrav og obligatoriske aktiviteter

Praksisstudiet er en obligatorisk del av studiet og det er krav om 100 % tilstedeværelse.

Vurdering og eksamen

Antall dager veiledet og vurdert praksis, se praksiskalenderen:https://student.oslomet.no/praksis-barnehagelerer

15 dager i ekstern barnehage.

Ny praksisperiode

Studenter som blir vurdert til" Ikke bestått" i en veiledet praksisperiode kan fullføre det påbegynte studieåret, men får deretter ett års opphold i ordinært studieløp. Ny praksisperiode gjennomføres neste gang ordinær praksis organiseres, normalt neste studieår. Hvis praksis blir vurdert til bestått ved andre gangs forsøk, kan studenten gjenoppta studiet.

Hvis praksisperioden blir vurdert til" Ikke bestått" ved andre gangs forsøk, må studiet normalt avbrytes.

Hjelpemidler ved eksamen

Praksisstudiet vurderes til bestått / ikke bestått.

Vurderingsuttrykk

Praksislærer i barnehagen.

Sensorordning

I dokumentet "Praksisoppgaver" vil innhold, fokus og oppgaver i de enkelte praksisperiodene bli beskrevet nærmere. Dokumentet publiseres på universitetets digitale læringsplattform før oppstart av praksisperioden.