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POL S 360

Politics of International Development

3 units

Fall 2025

Topics

  • Interrogate the assumptions behind mainstream conceptualizations of development
  • Think critically about the major theoretical and conceptual approaches to development studies
  • Improve verbal and writing skills
  • Explore specific examples of top-down and bottom-up development projects and institutions, as well as their logics, narratives, spaces, and assumptions
Fall 2024

Topics

  • Interrogate the assumptions behind mainstream conceptualizations of development
  • Think critically about the major theoretical and conceptual approaches to development studies
  • Improve verbal and writing skills
  • Explore specific examples of top-down and bottom-up development projects and institutions, as well as their logics, narratives, spaces, and assumptions
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