Development Frameworks is a core module. Its purpose is to orient you to key questions in development studies as well as key concepts, theories, approaches and terms. This will enable you to complete the other modules which will develop these concepts further.  Therefore, the module broadly provides you with the framework for the field of development studies. It poses some of the fundamental questions in development studies and examines the different kinds of answers that have been offered in response to them. The overarching objective is to provide you with a sense of the diversity of answers to the key development problems. The approach will be to cover the breadth of development thinking so that other modules can provide more depth on specific paradigms and approaches. 

Development Frameworks poses development’s key questions: What is the nature of global inequality? How has uneven development been explained? What are the key mechanisms of development? How has development been defined? Each of these questions invokes a rich history of theoretical and applied engagement with the problems posed. As such, it aims to provide you with an overview of the key concepts so that they can be compared to related concepts. Extensive use will be made of the case of South Africa and Africa in relation to these development problems. This module carries 16 credits.