GOVT132 CM - Development Aid in Practice

This course analyzes the conceptual, policy, and operational debates in the field of development, so that students can better understand development as a profession, as an institution, as an ideology, and as a concrete set of practices and norms. It deals with issues such as power, community, state formation, gender, technical assistance, and conditionality. More generally, this course seeks to connect or translate social science insights into to the practice of development and vice versa, understand concrete practices through the lens of theory.

Prerequisites: GOVT 020 CM and instructor permission

Offered: Every year

Credit: 1

Course Number: GOVT132 CM