GDS 395-01 - Special Topic: Development in sub-Saharan Africa: policies, institutions, and actors

4 credits (Fall)

This course will investigate development in sub-Saharan Africa as a process of social and political change. It will include an overview of development policy in Africa in historic perspective (colonial, state-led, post-structural adjustment) and engagement with contemporary challenges facing the continent such as food security, civil conflict, and urbanization. It will examine these challenges, past development failures, and perceived ways forward through several different theoretical frameworks with particular attention to issues of governance.

Prerequisite: GDS 111 and ANT 238, ECN 230, ECN 233, ECN 240, EDU 217, HIS 262, POL 251, POL 257, POL 258, POL 259, POL 262, SOC 220, or SOC 240.
Instructor: Brottem