TAFANGO15U NGOs, Civil Society and Development in Africa

Volume 2014/2015
Content
The objective of the course is to improve understanding of NGOs in African countries and the various contexts in which they operate (humanitarian situations, development projects, advocacy work). The course should assist in developing a broad understanding of the policy and practice of NGOs. It aims to give an understanding of how to apply relevant concepts and theories drawn from several research fields (development studies, social policy, anthropology, sociology, political theory) to NGO questions and problems. Course participants will also gain insight into how to relate current research on NGOs to an individual student's own experience wherever possible.
Learning Outcome

Academic goals and key course outcomes:

  • Gain an analytical understanding of the NGO literature on Africa;
  • Gain a working understanding of the literature concerned with civil society, ethnographies of aid, and participation;
  • Develop a critical understanding of selected relevant concepts from the wider social science and literature.
The course will take the form of a seminar series consisting of a series of discrete lectures and discussions linked to the over-arching theme of the course.
Please see the Study Curricula at www.teol.ku.dk/​​cas/​​studentinformation/​​study_curricula
  • Category
  • Hours
  • Class Instruction
  • 28
  • Course Preparation
  • 272
  • Exam
  • 120
  • Total
  • 420
Credit
10 ECTS
Type of assessment
Written assignment
Marking scale
7-point grading scale
Censorship form
External censorship
Exam period
January 2015
Criteria for exam assesment

The grade of 12 is given at the exam when the student demonstrates:

  • Confident ability to identify and define a sub-topic and an issue of relevance to the overall theme of the thematic course.
  • Confident ability to independently and critically select relevant literature on the sub-topic to be studied.
  • Confident ability to independently and critically analyse the sub-topic in question and the chosen literature.
  • Confident ability to conduct an interdisciplinary analysis of the sub-topic in question and to place it within the overall theme of the thematic course in question.
  • Confident ability to communicate academic material in a clear, concise and well-argued manner.
Credit
15 ECTS
Type of assessment
Oral examination, 45 min.
Marking scale
7-point grading scale
Censorship form
External censorship
Exam period
January 2015
Criteria for exam assesment

The grade of 12 is given at the exam when the student demonstrates:

  • Confident ability to identify and define a sub-topic and an issue of relevance to the overall theme of the thematic course.
  • Confident ability to independently and critically select relevant literature on the sub-topic to be studied.
  • Confident ability to independently and critically analyse the sub-topic in question and the chosen literature.
  • Confident ability to conduct an interdisciplinary analysis of the sub-topic in question and to place it within the overall theme of the thematic course in question.
  • Confident ability to communicate academic material in a clear, concise and well-argued manner.