2010-2011 Academic Catalog 
    
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2010-2011 Academic Catalog [ARCHIVED CATALOG]

IDCE 30206 - Technology and Sustainability: Perspectives from the Global South

Type of Course: Seminar
Examines the nature of technologies and their relationships to socioeconomic and environmental change in the developing world. Readings and discussions will address and critique theories on technology change, the role of technologies in development, and their real-world implications (good and bad) for developing regions. Theoretical literature will be linked to empirical case studies of agricultural, energy, financing, information-communication, and/or manufacturing technologies in Sub-Saharan Africa, Latin America, and South/Southeast Asia. The key objective of the course is to deepen and complicate students’ understandings of the ways in which technologies are developed, diffused, and absorbed and about how these processes influence communities and economies in the Global South.

Cross Listed: GEOG 375 

Instructor: Mr. Murphy

When Offered: Offered every other year

Faculty: James T. Murphy, Ph.D. Assistant Professor of Geography; Adjunct Assistant Professor of IDCE