THE CAPABILITY APPROACH AND HUMAN DEVELOPMENT

Description

Course Title	Course Code	Semester	Required/Elective	Theory + Practice	ECTS
The Capability Approach and Human Development	GZT340	VI. SEMESTER	Area Elective Courses	3+0	5.0

Language of Instruction	İngilizce
Course Type	Area Elective Courses
Course Instructor(s)	DOÇ. DR. MUSTAFA ONUR ARUN
Mode of Delivery	The mode of delivery of this course is face to face
Prerequisites	There is no pre- or co-requisite for this course
Courses Recommended	Theories of Social Justice
Reading List	Alkire, S. (2002). “Dimensions of Human Development”, World Development, Vol: 30 (2), pp: 181-205.Alkire, S. (2005). “Why the Capability Approach”, Journal of Human Development, Vol: 6 (1), pp: 115-33.Deneulin, S. and Shahani, L. (2009) (Eds.). Introduction to the Human Development and the Capability Approach. Earthscan.Fukuda-Parr, S. (2003). “The Human Development Paradigm: Operationalizing Sen’s Ideas on Capabilities”, Feminist Economics, Vol: 9 (2-3), pp: 301-17.Nussbaum, M. (2000). Women and Human Development: The Capabilities Approach, UK: Cambridge University Press.Nussbaum, M. (2011). Creating Capabilities: The Human Development Approach, Harvard University Press, Cambridge, MA.Nussbaum, M. (2011). “Capabilities, Entitlements, Rights: Supplementation and Critique”, Journal of Human Development and Capabilities, Vol: 12 (1), pp: 23-37.Robeyns, I. (2003). “Sen’s Capability Approach and Gender Inequality: Selecting Relevant Capabilities”, Feminist Economics, Vol: 9 (2-3), pp: 61-92.Robeyns, I. (2005). “The Capability Approach: A Theoretical Survey”, Journal of Human Development, Vol: 6 (1), pp: 93-114.Robeyns, I. (2005). “Selecting Capabilities for Quality of Life Measurement”, Social Indicators Research, Vol: 74, pp: 191-215.Robeyns, I. (2006). “The Capability Approach in Practice”, The Journal of Political Philosophy, Vol: 14 (3), pp: 351-376.Robeyns, I. (2009): “Capability Approach”, in: Handbook of Economics and Ethics, Jan Peil and Irene Van Staveren (Eds.), UK: Edward Elgar Publishing Limited, pp: 39-46.Robeyns, I. (2009): “Equality and Justice”, in: An Introduction to the Human Development and the Capability Approach, Edited by S. Deneulin with L. Shahani, pp: 101-20, Earthscan, UK.Sen, A. K. (1979). Equality of What?, The Tanner Lecture on Human Values, Delivered at Stanford University, May 22, 1979.Sen, A. K. (1987). Commodities and Capabilities, Third Edition (1999), Oxford University Press, Delhi.Sen, A. K. (1990a). “Justice: Means versus Freedoms”, Philosophy & Public Affairs, Vol: 19 (2), pp: 111-21.Sen, A. K. (1992). Inequality Reexamined, Oxford University Press.Sen, A. K. (1999). Development as Freedom, Knopf Borzoi Books.Sen, A. K. (2009). The Idea of Justice, The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press.
Assessment Methods	1 Mid-Term Exam (Written), 1 End-of-Semester Exam (Written)
Work Placement	Not Applicable