Overview
Description
Analysis of the problems of political development and the political implications of social change.
Requirements
Units
Lecture3
Catalog Details
Attributes
StandardRepeatable up to 6 credits
Learning Outcomes
- demonstrate clear understanding of various ways of defining development and underdevelopment, as well as the implication of these alternate conceptions.
- understand and discuss the intertwined issues of stability, democratization, nationalism and modernization.
- explain the main approaches to foreign aid and the controversies associated with them.
- evaluate the effects of globalization on economic reform in the developing world.
- articulate the primary long-term consequences of colonialism on present-day developing countries.