SP22078: Sustainable development
[Page last updated: 23 May 2025]
| Academic Year: | 2025/26 |
| Owning Department/School: | Department of Social & Policy Sciences |
| Credits: | 5 [equivalent to 10 CATS credits] |
| Notional Study Hours: | 100 |
| Level: | Intermediate (FHEQ level 5) |
| Period: |
- Semester 2
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| Assessment Summary: | CWOG 25%, CWRG 75% |
| Assessment Detail: |
- SP32078 Group presentation (CWOG 25%)
- SP32078 Group research report (CWRG 75% - Qualifying Mark: 40)
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| Supplementary Assessment: |
- Like-for-like reassessment (where allowed by programme regulations)
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| Requisites: |
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| Learning Outcomes: |
By the end of this unit, students will be able to:
1. Demonstrate critical understanding of different conceptions of sustainable development at global to local levels;
2. Be able to discuss critically key conceptual approaches, analytical debates, and methodological issues concerning the political economy of sustainability;
3. Be able to interrogate effectively different forms of evidence claims;
4. Analyse a governance initiative to support sustainable development using a social scientific approach;
5. Be able to work effectively in a team and present research in a visual form.
Intellectual skills:
- To think creatively and analytically.
- To communicate an argument.
- To gather information, data, research and literature from a number of different sources (i.e. library, web-based, archives etc.).
- To select appropriate and relevant information from a wide source and large body of knowledge.
- To utilise problem solving skills.
- Skills in some types of data analysis.
Professional Practical skills:
- To develop sensitivity to the values and interests of others.
- To plan and implement a programme of research.
- Interviewing and data collection skills.
Transferable/Key skills:
- Interpersonal and communication skills.
- To construct a bibliography of varying complexity.
- Time-management and administrative skills.
- Team and group working skills.
- To reflect upon his/her own academic and professional performance and take responsibility for personal and professional learning and development.
- To solve problems in a variety of situations.
- To manage time effectively and respond to changing demands.
- To prioritise workloads, and utilise long- and short-term planning skills.
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| Synopsis: | "Critically assesses the concept of sustainable development and how its embedded in governance arrangements at different scales in the field of international development.
You will explore the institutional effectiveness of relevant governance models, and their political legitimacy and implications for social justice.
You will advance your understanding of the political economy of sustainable development, and analyse the pros and cons of different models for sustainable development."
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| Content: | This unit critically assesses the concept of sustainable development and how it's embedded in governance arrangements at different scales in the field of international development. It explores the institutional effectiveness of relevant governance models, and their political legitimacy and implications for social justice. The unit develops understanding of the political economy of sustainable development, and analyses the pros and cons of different models for sustainable development.
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| Course availability: |
SP22078 is Optional on the following courses:
Department of Social & Policy Sciences
- UHSP-AFB31 : BSc(Hons) International Development with Economics (Year 2)
- UHSP-AKB31 : BSc(Hons) International Development with Economics with professional placement (Year 2)
- UHSP-AFB32 : BSc(Hons) Social Policy (Year 2)
- UHSP-AKB32 : BSc(Hons) Social Policy with professional placement (Year 2)
- UHSP-AFB37 : BSc(Hons) Social Sciences (Year 2)
- UHSP-AKB37 : BSc(Hons) Social Sciences with professional placement (Year 2)
- UHSP-AFB35 : BSc(Hons) Sociology (Year 2)
- UHSP-AFB36 : BSc(Hons) Sociology and Social Policy (Year 2)
- UHSP-AKB36 : BSc(Hons) Sociology and Social Policy with professional placement (Year 2)
- UHSP-AKB35 : BSc(Hons) Sociology with professional placement (Year 2)
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Notes: - This unit catalogue is applicable for the 2025/26 academic year only. Students continuing their studies into 2026/27 and beyond should not assume that this unit will be available in future years in the format displayed here for 2025/26.
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