Course Requirements Percentage of final grade
In-class midterm exam on May 6
Link to review for mid-term here
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30% |
Group project
(see separate handout, link here) |
35% |
Essay assignment link here
(due at the final class meeting on Friday June 6) |
20% |
Class participation
(e.g. questions/responses underscore efforts to understand course materials) |
15% |
Please note: attendance at additional class meeting Friday, June 6, 6:30 p.m., is mandatory.
For graduate students only: there is no additional requirement, per se, for graduate students. Instead, it is expected that they will be eminently prepared for all in-class discussions and take the lead (or share the lead) in facilitating the smooth operation of the group process in their respective group projects.
Required texts:
(1) Eade, Deborah Development Methods and Approaches: Critical Reflections Kumarian Press, 2003
(2) Easterly, William The White Man’s Burden: Why the West’s Effort to Aid the Rest Have Done So
Much Ill and So Little Good Penguin Books, 2006
(3) Lewis, David and David Mosse (eds.) Brokers and Translators: the Ethnography of Aid and Agencies
Kumarian Press, 2006
(4) Stiglitz, Joseph E. Making Globalization Work New York: W.W. Norton, 2007
(5) UNDP Human Development Report 2007/08: Fighting Climate Change: Human Solidarity in a
Divided World United Nations Development Programme, 2007
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