PIA 2501 - DEVELOPMENT POLICY & PRACTICE

Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
Long Description This is a survey of development policies, issues, institutions, and resources for professionals working in development. Lectures, discussions, and presentations in class focus on analysis of development policies, and on new and significant policy issues, skills, methodologies, and resources. The course helps students develop the ability to analyze development issues from several perspectives, understand the breadth of international development as a field of professional service and academic study, and clarify their priorities for acquiring skills in preparation for that service. Students completing the course will be able to grasp the history of approaches and experiences with development, identify and critically analyze major institutions involved, assess political and institutional environments of development, employ some key social science and administrative tools, and recognize and understand principles of other significant skills and emerging methodologies in development practice. The course is organized in three parts: 1) dynamics of development and social change; 2) development management: who's in charge; And 3) contemporary issues and skills. Throughout the course we will introduce, discuss, and return to case studies that illuminate key issues and themes: the global HIV/AIDS pandemic, microfinance programs in development, the chad-cameroon oil pipeline project, water system privatization, and the global and local food prices and production.
Academic Career: Graduate
Course Component: Lecture
Grade Component: Grad LG/SNC Basis
Course Requirements: Graduate School of Public and International Affairs students only.

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