COURSE DESCRIPTIONS
This course is an interdisciplinary subject, which is designed to equip the candidate with critical analytical skills of societal developmental problems in all fields. It is intended to enable candidates to gain knowledge, skills and tools to analyze different development processes, at national, regional and global levels
Learning Outcome
Upon successful completion of this course, students will be able to:
- Understand
the concept and theories of socio economic development as well as factors
influencing the process of development at national, regional and global levels.
- Analyze,
discuss, participate and make presentation on socio economic development issues
pertaining to development as well as build the capacity to speak in public.
- Gain
knowledge, skills and tools to analyze different policies and plans as they
relate to development processes, at national, regional and global levels,
including challenges and opportunities presented by such policies and plans.
COURSE CONTENT
- Political
economy and development.
- The subject
matter of political economy
- The
concepts/models and theories of social development
- Education
and development, gender and development, poverty reduction in Tanzania
- Health and
development
- Contemporary
development issues in Tanzania, regional integration and development issues
governance.
- Development
science and technology in development, entrepreneurship.
COMPULSORY READING MATERIALS
- Bagachwa
MSD (Ed) (1994). “Poverty Alleviation in
Tanzania; Recent Research Issues, DUP Dar es Salaam.
- Justinian
Rweyemamu (Years) “Underdevelopment and
Industrialization in Tanzania. A
Study of Perverse Capitalists Industrial Development”
OPTIONAL READING MATERIALS
- Koda, B and
Ngaiza, M. (1991). “The Unsung Heroines”
DUP: Dar es Salaam.
- Mabogunye,
A.L. (1990) “The Development Process:
Spatial Perspective” Hutchison and Co. Chapter 2 and 3.