2024-2025 Academic Catalog

Sep 30, 2024

2024-2025 Academic Catalog

ID 125 - International Development and its Alternatives: Theory, Practice, Action

This course provides a foundation for students interested in public service, policy making and social change anywhere in our world. We start with theories of and ideas about international development including an examination of the role of colonialism, global market integration and the promotion of economic growth, and the rise of movements for social justice and equity. Development is an idea, a career, a vocation. We will examine practices and actions that accompany bring about ‘development’ such as charitable giving, volunteering, solidarity building, and mutual aid. Through critical and analytical engagements with fiction, film, and academic scholarship on the subject, this class provides a balanced view of traditional views of development and its alternatives.

Formerly titled Tales from the Far Side. These courses are the same and cannot both be taken for credit.

Course Designation/Attribute: GP

Anticipated Terms Offered: Annually