Syllabus

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Spring 2005
Room CB 245
11:00am-12:15pm on Tuesday & Thursday

Professor T. R. Leinbach
1477 Patterson Office Tower
Voice: 257-1276
email: leinbach@uky.edu

OFFICE HOURS
T, Th 9-10am; F 10-12
or by appointment

Course Description:

The course will focus on the nature, characteristics, problems - and possible solutions associated with development in the Third World. Especially important are spatial aspects of the various development situations. Environmental settings, historical circumstances, as well as, institutions and culture are recognized as keys to the understanding of development conditions and progress.

Major emphases coincide with themes of population, urbanization, resources, agrarian structure, industrialization in the global economy and rural development. Select concepts and illustrations will be used to highlight, identify, and explain development progress or the lack thereof. Abundant developing nation case studies from across the globe will be used to demonstrate development conditions and strategies. In addition to lectures and discussions frequent use will be made of slides, videos, and films which focus on a variety of countries in Asia, Africa, and Latin America.

Course Requirements:
The course will have two formal exams (including a final). These will consist of identification of concepts, understanding of terms and short essays. In addition announced quizzes are possible throughout the semester.

The exams will account for respectively: 25, 25, and 35 percent of the grade; the quizzes and other writing assignments will account for 15 percent.

CLASS ATTENDANCE IS REQUIRED AND THREE (3) UNEXCUSED ABSENCES WILL RESULT IN A GRADE REDUCTION. This course is part of the University Studies Program, which is designed to provide a comprehensive liberal arts education to all undergraduates. The course can be taken to fulfill the Cross-cultural requirement in University Studies.

REQUIRED TEXTS:

Robert Potter, et.al. Geographies of Development. 2nd revised edition, Pearson, 2003
Nystrom World Atlas, Nystrom, 2003.

  1. AN OVERVIEW OF DEVELOPMENT (Potter, Chaps 1-3)
    1. Defining Development: The Basic Components
    2. Differing Interpretations of Development
    3. Geographic Space and Development
    4. Factors Influencing Underdevelopment
    5. Strategies of Development
      1. Theories
      2. Classical and Traditional Approaches
      3. Historical, Radical and Alternative Approaches
      4. Globalization and Development
  2. PEOPLE IN THE DEVELOPMENT PROCESS (Potter, Chapters 5,8)
    1. Population Size Variations (see especially Population Reference Bureau)
    2. Analyzing Spatial Distributions of Population: China, India and Indonesia
    3. Population Growth: The Demographic Transition
      1. Control Strategies
    4. Population Structure: The Role of Age and Sex
      1. Case Study: Indonesia's Child Survival Revolution
    5. Population Mobility: Permanent and Temporary
      1. Case Study: Indonesia's Transmigration Program
  3. URBANIZATION IN THE THIRD WORLD (Potter, Chapter 9)
    1. Urban Growth in the Developing World
    2. Causes of Rapid Urbanization
    3. City Structures in the Third World
      1. Case Study: Sao Paulo and Hanoi
        Video: My Hanoi
        Video: City Life: Sao Paulo
      2. Case Study: Singapore: Housing, Transport, Social Engineering
    4. Transport in the City: Problems and Progress
  4. AGRICULTURE AND RURAL DEVELOPMENT (Potter, Chapter 10)
    1. The Basic Problems
      Video: Chasing India's Monsoon
    2. African, Asian and Latin American Peasant Agriculture Compared
    3. Food Resources and Problems
      Video:Roots of Hunger,Roots of Change-Hunger in Senegal
    4. The Green Revolution: Myth and Reality
      Case Study: Mekong in Vietnam
    5. Barriers to Rural Advance: Transport and Accessibility (Chambers)
    6. Progress and Problems: Land Reform, Technology, Entrepreneurship and Capital, and Health
    7. The Role of Women in Rural Development
      Video: Man Made Famine
    8. Toward a Strategy of Rural Development: Three Conditions
    9. Rural Development Strategies and Planning
      1. Case Study: Cash Incentive and INPRES Desa in Indonesia
      2. Case Study: Micro-financing and the Grameen Bank in Bangladesh
      3. Case Study: Vietnam's renovation 'doi moi'
  5. RESOURCES AND THE ENVIRONMENT (Potter, Chapter 6)
    1. Resources in Development
      Video: Case Study: Amazonian Deforestation
    2. Resource Constraints
    3. The Role of Tourism
      Video: Case Study of Bali
    4. Environmental Impacts of Development
      1. Case Study: Three Gorges Dam
      2. Case Study: Deforestation in Southeast Asia
  6. ROLE OF GLOBAL ECONOMY AND THE STATE (Potter, Chaps 4, 7, 8)
    1. The Global Economy and the Third World
    2. Industrialization: Path to Progress?
      Video: Case Study: China's Development: Shenyang, Shanghai, Nanjing, Guangzhou
    3. The Multi-national Enterprise, Global Production Networks and Logistics
    4. The Role of the State and Governance (Chapter 7)
      1. Concepts: What is Structural Adjustment and Liberalization?
      2. Concepts: What is the role of PVOs and NGOs?
    5. Infrastructure Capacity: The Role of Transport
    6. International Trading Structures and Patterns

FINAL EXAMINATION (Tuesday, May 3, 2005, 10:30am)

SELECT REFERENCES

Tim Allen and Alan Thomas. Poverty and Development in the 1990s. Oxford University Press, 1992 HC59.72 .P6P67

Henry Bernstein, et.al. Rural Livelihoods: Crises and Responses. Oxford University Press, 1992 HN981 .C6 R876

Rajesh Chandra. Industrialization and Development in the Third World. Methuen, 1992. HC59.7 .C339 1992

Peter Dicken. Global Shift: Reshaping the Global Economic map in the 21st Century. 4th edition Guilford, 2004.

John Dickenson, et.al. Geography of the Third World. 2nd edition, Routledge, 1996. HC59.7 .G3658 1996

Chris Dixon. Rural Development in the Third World. Methuen, 1990. HD1417 .D57 1990

David Drakakis-Smith. The Third World City. Methuen, 1987. HT169.5 .D69 1987

Jennifer Elliott. An Introduction to Sustainable Development. Methuen, 1994. HC59.72 .E5 E43 1994

Allan and Anne Findlay, Population and Development in the Third World. Methuen, 1991. HB884 .F56 1991

Avi Gupta. Ecology and Development in the Third World. Methuen, 1988. Hc59.72 .E5 G86 1988

Tom Hewitt, Hazel Johnson and David Wield. Industrialization and Development. Oxford, 1992 HC59.7 .I525 1992

J. Lea. Tourism and Development in the Third World. Methuen, 1988 G155.A1 L39 1988

Philip Porter and Eric Sheppard. A World of Difference: Society, Nature and Development. Guilford, 1998. G116 .P67 1998

H.A. Reitsma and J.M.G. Kleinpenning, The Third World in Perspective. Rowman and Allenheld, 1985. HC59.7 .R43

David Simon, Transportation and Development in the Third World, Methuen, 1996
HE148.5 .S55 1996

Allan Thomas. Third World Atlas. 2nd ed. Taylor and Francis, 1994.

Michael Todaro. Economic Development in the Third World. 4e, Longman, 1989.HD82 .T552 1989

Tim Unwin (ed.). Atlas of World Development. John Wiley, 1994. G1046.E1 U5 1994

Revised November 20, 2004