Pol431

1. Define key concepts related to Third World development.
2. Explain the historical and theoretical explanations for underdevelopment.
3. Analyze the impact of globalization on Third World countries.
4. Evaluate the role of the state in promoting development.
5. Assess the challenges of governance in the Third World.
6. Discuss the relationship between democracy and development.

13 weeks, about 26 hours in total. Yours will differ.

1. Week 1Module 1: Understanding the Third World and its Descriptive Taxonomy

   • Unit 1: Understanding the Concepts of Third World, Development, Underdevelopment and Dependency · 2 hours

     Define Third World, Development, Underdevelopment, and Dependency.. Identify the relationship between these concepts.. Discuss the classic notion of the Third World..

2. Week 2Module 1: Understanding the Third World and its Descriptive Taxonomy

   • Unit 2: Descriptive Taxonomy and the Commonalities of the Third World Countries · 2 hours

     Describe countries categorized as the Third World.. Mention the characteristics of countries referred to as Third World.. Explain the common features of the Third World countries..

3. Week 3Module 1: Understanding the Third World and its Descriptive Taxonomy

   • Unit 3: Theoretical and Empirical Explanations to the Causes of Third World Countries' Underdevelopment · 2 hours

     Explain the causes of Third World countries backwardness.. Show why Capitalist development has not taken place in the Third World countries.. Explain the postulations of modernisation for explaining Third World development crisis..

4. Week 4Module 1: Understanding the Third World and its Descriptive Taxonomy

   • Unit 4: Critique of the Theoretical Explanations · 2 hours

     Discuss the critique of the modernisation school.. Discuss the critique of the dependency school.. Explain the relevance of these theories in understanding contemporary crisis of underdevelopment and dependency of the Third World countries..

5. Week 5Module 1: Understanding the Third World and its Descriptive Taxonomy

   • Unit 5: Growth Theory of Development · 2 hours

     State the basic assumptions of the Growth Theory of development and underdevelopment.. Discuss whether the Growth Theory of development and underdevelopment is eurocentric and neo-liberal and could explain the development of Nigeria and other third world countries..

6. Week 6Module 2: The Emergence and Development of Capitalism and Imperialism

   • Unit 1: The Emergence of Capitalism from Simple Production Expanded and to Monopoly Production · 2 hours

     Explain how capitalist mode of production emerged and developed from commodity production-expanded production to monopoly production.. Identify the basic features of capitalist mode of production.. Describe the main stimulus of capitalist mode of production..

7. Week 7Module 2: The Emergence and Development of Capitalism and Imperialism

   • Unit 2: Theories of Imperialism · 2 hours

     Explain the meaning of imperialism.. Discuss the different theories that explain imperialism..

8. Week 8Module 2: The Emergence and Development of Capitalism and Imperialism

   • Unit 3: V.I Lenin's Theory of Imperialism · 2 hours

     Describe Lenin's theory of Imperialism.. Identify the basic characteristics of Lenin's theory of imperialism.. Explain the relevance and contribution of Lenin's theory to Third World development crisis..

9. Week 9Module 2: The Emergence and Development of Capitalism and Imperialism

   • Unit 4: Globalisation as an International System · 2 hours

     Explain the notion of globalisation (how it is the off-shore of capitalism and imperialism).. Discuss globalisation as global capitalism and its contradictions for Third World Countries.. State the tools of Globalisation..

10. Week 10Module 2: The Emergence and Development of Capitalism and Imperialism

    • Unit 5: The Relationship between Development and Underdevelopment · 2 hours

      Explain why is politics of development crucial in the understanding of development and underdevelopment of Nigeria and other third world countries. Justify that the development of the productive forces is essential to the understanding of development and underdevelopment of Nigeria and other third world countries..

11. Week 11Module 3: The Forms, Nature and Structure of Dependency and Underdevelopment

    • Unit 1: Forms of Dependence · 2 hours

      Describe the development crises of the post independent TWCs.. Explain the nature and forms of dependency of the Third World countries..

12. Week 12Module 3: The Forms, Nature and Structure of Dependency and Underdevelopment

    • Unit 2: Externalities of the Systems of Dependence and Underdevelopment · 2 hours

      Describe the nature of dependence of the Third World countries.. Evaluate the various forms of dependence of the Third World countries..

13. Week 13Module 3: The Forms, Nature and Structure of Dependency and Underdevelopment

    • Unit 3: Internal Factors and Mechanisms of Underdevelopment · 2 hours

      Explain that Third World underdevelopment is not restricted to external factors alone.. Discuss the various internal factors that conditioned Third World underdevelopment and dependency..