Teaching

Guest lectures

• Development Economics (Hons) guest lecture –  Social Policy: Education (17 April 2012)
• Economics of education (Hons) guest lecture – Education and inequality (9 May 2012) + Hendrik’s Feinstein article presentation

Economic and Development Problems in Africa (2012 Semester 1)

FINAL MARKS SEMESTER 1 - if there are any errors email me before Friday 18 May. (I have blacked out your lowest two marks)

(Essays can be collected outside my office)

• Course outline
• Lecture 1 – Introduction
• Lecture 2 & 3 – Research Methods
  • How to write about Africa – Wainaina
  • ‘Economical Writing‘ by Deidre McCloskey
• Lecture 4 – Why is Africa poor?
  • Ch19 Guns Germs and Steel – Jared Diamond
  • McNeill’s criticism of Guns, Germs and Steel
• Lecture 5 & 6 – Botswana Case Study
• Lecture 7 & 8 - Map Quiz (+details)  & Gapminder presentation
• Lecture 9-11  - Foreign Aid
• Lecture 12-13 – Foreign Aid case study (+review questions)
• Lecture 14-17 – Poverty and Inequality in South Africa
• Guideline for essay outline
• Lecture 18-23 – Education in South Africa
• Test information
• Lecture 24-25 – HIV/AIDS in Africa
• Presentation marks

Resources

General Academic:

• Excellent (!!) article on writing a literature review
• Overview of the academic essay - Harvard
• Writing with internet sources – Harvard
• Logic & Argument – Dartmouth
• Writing the academic paper – Dartmouth
• Cite it Right - University of Limerick

Christian

• Tim Kellar resources
• AW Tozer preaches