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Global Studies (GLBL)
175 Prince Lucien Campbell, 541-346-5051
College of Arts & Sciences
Course Data
  GLBL 240   + Dis >2 >GP >IC 0.00 cr.
Introduction to major ideologies, theories, historical processes, and contemporary challenges in international development. Galvan.
Grading Options: Optional; see degree guide or catalog for degree requirements
Instructor: Shannon TE-mail
Course Materials
 
  CRN Avail Max Time Day Location Instructor Notes

+ Dis

12172 8 20 0900-0950 f 330 CON Shannon T  
 
Associated Sections

Lecture

12170 36 140 1400-1520 mw 220 CHA Johnson W  
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Expanded Course Description
For more than five decades, the so-called "third" or "developing" world has been at the receiving end of numerous grand schemes (and billions of dollars of aid) to raise living standards, transfer technology, and eradicate disease, illiteracy, famine and despair. Yet over one-quarter of humanity continues to live in conditions of abject poverty. Nearly twenty percent of our global population of more than 6 billion are hungry, eating fewer than 1200 calories per day. The United Nations estimates that 1.2 billion people manage with a total income of less than $1 a day (most North Americans spend at least twice that amount on a video rental; $1 a day is about half the per-person daily pet food budget in the advanced industrial countries). One in six people lives without access to safe drinking water, over one billion have no access to basic literacy training, and a startling 1 in 3 children born in the developing world will die before their 40th birthday.

The data are numbing because, in effect, we know them already. We know the problem has proven stubborn, elusive, almost biblical in its seeming intractability. Nevertheless, practitioners and scholars of development have long resisted "the poor will always be among us" fatalism, as well as the more recent fashionable explanation/excuse that the poor "fail to compete effectively" in free markets. While determined optimism has historically colored development grandiose and sometimes evangelical, there are some signs of real learning taking place. The debris fields left from the wreckage of so many 'latest and greatest' grand campaigns to eliminate global poverty (from infrastructure building, through integrated rural development, basic human needs, all the way to market empowerment) are yielding useful, incremental lessons.

This course challenge students to consider the striking inequity between the enormous range of comforts and choices in this, one of the world's most comfortable and rich societies, and the almost medieval poverty, lack of access to good housing, education, clean water, basic medicine and simple hope in most of the 'developing' or 'third' world. We will make ourselves familiar with the 'problematic' of development, explore competing conceptualizations of the issues, consider what's been tried in the past to address these issues, examine carefully what seems to work, explore major challenges facing developing societies today, and reflect on what we in the materially rich societies can do to address the problem of global, faraway (and local, nearby) poverty and underdevelopment. In doing so, the course explores development challenges in a wide range of world regions and in the historical development of the West and non-Western regions. It also introduces students to a range of tools and perspectives that have been used to make sense of chronic inequality and to offer remedies for economic stagnation.

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