Code
GEO 608
Category
Optional - Compulsory
ECTS
7,5
Hour per Week
3
E-services
e-class
Instructors
Gavalas V.
Learning Outcomes
At the end of the semester, postgraduate students are expected to have understood the completely different living conditions in other parts of the planet, where the majority of the world's population lives. The development-underdevelopment dipole is a central concept of the course. Through this concept and its discussion during the semester, postgraduate students will be able to answer a series of questions such as:
- How significant is economic development for the reduction of mortality ?
- Why was fertility traditionally high in pre-industrial or traditional societies ?
- What are the main consequences of migration flows from developing to developed countries ?
- What are the broader implications of an unevenly developed world for the global economy and society ?
General Competences
- Research, analysis, and synthesis of data and information using appropriate technologies
- Independent work
- Respect for difference and multiculturalism
- Encouraging free, creative and deductive thinking
Course Content
The "Third World" from a geopolitical term of the Cold War era, ended up being used today to primarily separate poor from rich countries. At the dawn of the 21st century, 5/6 of the world's population lives in conditions of poverty and destitution. The causes and description of this global inequality are the subject of this course. The course could be titled "Geography of Underdevelopment". A brief overview is given of the causes (historical, geopolitical, demographic) that led Africa, Latin America, a large part of Asia and regions of Oceania to economic underdevelopment and political subjugation. The demographic characteristics of their population, their economic and social development, urbanization, the foreign policy of these countries and their future prospects are examined.
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