LATIN AMERICAN ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT

Prerequisites & course information

Requisites: A A E 101 (215 prior to Fall 2024), ECON 101 , or 111 Course Designation: Core GenEd - Social & Behavioral Science Breadth - Social Science Level - Advanced L&S Credit - L&S Liberal Arts and Science Repeatable for Credit: No Last Taught: Spring 2023 Learning Outcomes: 1. Demonstrate mastery of the language of international development economics Audience: Undergraduate 2. Develop proficiency in an array of concepts from primary product exports to conditional cash transfers to migration and remittances to corruption and civil conflict. Audience: Undergraduate 3. Examine how markets and distinct development strategies and processes provide different opportunities and returns for the rich and the poor, urban and rural, latino and indigenous peoples, large and small countries, and so on. Audience: Undergraduate 4. Explain the strengths and weaknesses of contending theories of economic development. Audience: Undergraduate 5. Apply contending theories to markets, state policies, social initiatives, and historical experiences in Latin American countries. Audience: Undergraduate Learning Outcomes: 1. Demonstrate mastery of the language of international development economics Audience: Undergraduate 2. Develop proficiency in an array of concepts from primary product exports to conditional cash transfers to migration and remittances to corruption and civil conflict. Audience: Undergraduate 3. Examine how markets and distinct development strategies and processes provide different opportunities and returns for the rich and the poor, urban and rural, latino and indigenous peoples, large and small countries, and so on. Audience: Undergraduate 4. Explain the strengths and weaknesses of contending theories of economic development. Audience: Undergraduate 5. Apply contending theories to markets, state policies, social initiatives, and historical experiences in Latin American countries. Audience: Undergraduate