International development

Designing Alternatives for Development

Module code: 010IDS
Level 6
30 credits in spring semester
Teaching method: Lecture, Seminar
Assessment modes: Essay, Coursework

On this module, you’ll gain the skills to design sustainability and social justice development projects, within and beyond development institutions. The module examines drivers of change within current development agendas and policies. It deploys decolonial, feminist, queer and diverse economies approaches. You will:

• explore multiple ways to transform relations of production, finance, social reproduction, care and common resource management
• draw on case studies from the Global South and North
• identify ways out of development quandaries which can be applied in future work places

You’ll be invited to design innovate responses to concrete development challenges in real-life scenarios through creative critical thinking and problem-solving.

Module learning outcomes

• Understand contemporary critical theories of development informing alternatives
• Have a knowledge of alternative policies and practices of development transforming relations of production, social reproduction and exchange in the Global South and North
• Be aware of challenges and possibilities of enacting positive change within and beyond existing development institutions
• Develop the skills to design alternative development policies and projects of sustainability and social justice