Rethinking Development

Catalog description

This course is an introduction to the theory and practice of international development. It teaches students about the theoretical and operational debates ongoing in the development world. It is a theoretical and operationally relevant course on the issues now being discussed and implemented in the development community. Students who have taken this course will understand the theory behind the practice, what the profession is about, what practitioners talk, think, worry, and write about; they will be able to engage in conversations with development professionals and begin to discuss the pressing issues in the field. They will not learn all the technical knowledge in education, health, infrastructure, livestock, food security, etc.—for that, many other courses are required—but they will learn the cross-cutting theoretical and practical issues that are present in all these fields of development operations.