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The School of African and Asian Studies (AFRAS), with its involvement in Development Studies has carved a special place for itself among institutes of higher education globally. AFRAS offers degrees with Development Studies in combination with a number of traditional major subjects to approximately 600 undergraduates. Three years' degree courses are available in Economics, English, Geography, History, Politics, Social Anthropology and Sociology. Those reading French are required to spend an additional year abroad at a university in a Francophone country. In the Development Studies program at the AFRAS, the first two years are common to all subjects. The first year foundation is in three parts: Economy and Society, Colonialism and After, and Issues in Development. During the second year of systematic study, students opt for one of four major courses in development: Agrarian Transformation, Development and the State, Development and the International Economy, or Environment, Ecology and Development. In the third year, students specialize in specific fields such as Aid and Projects, Exporting Apartheid, International Communications, Japan and Third World, Modernization and Development, Women in Rural Production Systems, etc. Thus the Development Studies program at the AFRAS is concerned with a wide range of historical and contemporary issues of the Third World. |