Human Development, Sustainability and Rights in Africa and the African Diaspora

A critical introduction to the study of development, sustainability and rights as interlinked approaches to understanding contemporary challenges in Africa and the African diaspora. Development is a concept with multiple meanings and contextual incarnations. The course emphasizes thinking of development as a field of expertise and intervention and as a modality of change, that goes beyond economistic understandings of development as simply economic growth. Previously offered as AAAD 391.