DEVENG 202
Critical Systems of Development
This course is intended to provide students with the necessary background and knowledge to undertake projects and work experience of a global scope. Students will be exposed to a diversity of methodological frameworks, introduced to the skills needed to effectively participate in the sustainable development field (such as systems mapping and landscape analysis), and to understand the history and ethics of global development. Students will be required to complete an annotated bibliography and a systems analysis of a problem of interest.
Topics
- To engage students in discussions on some of the key ethical and political issues involved in development engineering work. To expose students to a diversity of methodological frameworks that are important in development engineering work. To encourage students to research and better understand both the socio-historical and sector-specific contexts of their future development engineering, and to articulate this context in various course assignments.
- By the end of this class, students can expect to develop the ability to analyze the complex systems dynamics associated with the development contexts that you wish to work within and the changes that you aim to create, and thus to avoid unnecessary unintended consequences of change.
Official catalogue course objectives and student learning outcomes
Sources
- Course catalogue ↗2026-2027