Development Studies Courses
This is a listing of courses available in 2011-12 that may be of interest to students pursuing the Graduate
Certificate of Concentration in Development Studies.
These courses are divided into two categories:
I. “Development-related courses” - courses that count toward completion of the Certificate;
II. “Other possible courses” - courses that may count toward the Certificate, pending approval of the course instructor and Certificate adviser to ensure the student completes relevant development-related coursework.
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Students interested in the Certificate should meet with the faculty adviser to discuss courses appropriate for their program. Candidates may petition the faculty adviser to have other relevant courses count toward the Certificate or added to the core list.
FALL 2011
I. DEVELOPMENT-RELATED COURSES
INRL 559/ MGT 640, Evolution of Central Banking and Responses to Crises. Rakesh Mohan
Changes in the contours of policy making by central banks since the turn of the twentieth century.
Theoretical and policy perspectives as well as empirical debates in central banking. The recurrence of financial crises in market economies. Monetary policies that led to economic stability in the period prior to the collapse of 2007–2008.
INRL 566 /AFST 766, Comparative Welfare Policy in Developing Countries. Jeremy Seekings
Examination of public and private welfare systems in the developing world. Analysis of the evolving relationships between kin or community and states and market. Particular attention is paid to the politics of contemporary reforms.
INRL 574/ MGT 911, The Next China. Stephen Roach
Born out of necessity in the post-Cultural Revolution chaos of the late 1970s, modern China is about reforms, opening up, and transition. The Next China will be driven by the transition from an export- and investment-led development model to a pro-consumption model. China's new model could unmask a dual identity crisis—underscored by China's need to embrace political reform and the West's longstanding misperceptions about China.
ANTH 561/ F&ES 877, Anthropology of the Global Economy for Development and Conservation. Carol
Carpenter
The seminar explores topics in the anthropology of the global economy that are relevant to development and conservation policy and practice. Anthropologists are often assumed to focus on micro- or local-level research, and thus to have limited usefulness in the contemporary, global world of development and conservation policy. In fact, however, they have been examining global topics since at least the 1980s, and very little current anthropological research is limited to the village level. More importantly, the anthropological perspective on the global economy is unique and important.
ANTH 597/ F&ES 535, Social Science of Development and Conservation. Carol Carpenter
The course provides M.E.M., M.E.Sc., and doctoral students with the opportunity to master the essential social science literature on sustainable development and conservation. Social science makes two
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contributions to the practice of development and conservation. First, it provides ways of thinking about, researching, and working with social groupings—including rural households and communities, but also development and conservation institutions, states, and NGOs. Second, social science tackles the analysis of the knowledge systems that implicitly shape development and conservation policy and impinge on practice. The goal of the course is to stimulate students to apply informed and critical thinking to whatever roles they play in sustainable development and conservation, in order to move toward more environmentally and socially sustainable projects and policies. Three hours lecture/seminar.
F&ES 847, Sustainable Development/Climate Change/Energy. Rajendra Pachauri
The course explores the concept and practice of sustainable development, the scientific-social-economic dimensions of climate change (which represents an outcome of unsustainable development) and the rationale for a sustainable energy future different from past trends. The course will also bring in world leaders as guest speakers on topics related to the course to interact with students.
II. OTHER POSSIBLE COURSES
INRL 514, Globalization Space: Global Infrastructure and Extra-statecraft Keller Easterling
Global infrastructures and spatial products as a medium of transnational politics. Case studies travel around the world to, for instance, a resort in the DPRK, golf courses in China, IT campuses in South Asia, high-speed rail in Saudi Arabia, cable/satellite networks in Africa, and automated ports. As materializations of capital these spaces index labor and resources while also possessing cunning political dispositions and parastate functions.
INRL 525, Methods and Ethics in Global Health Research. Kaveh Khoshnood
Introduction to research methods in global health that recognize the influence of political, economic, social, and cultural factors. Quantitative, qualitative, and mixed-method approaches; ethical aspects of conducting research in resource-constrained settings; the process of obtaining human subjects' approval. Students develop proposals for short-term global health research projects conducted in resource-constrained settings.
INRL 527/ LAW 20571, Comparative and International Bioethics. Stephen Latham
Approaches in different countries, both developed and developing, to a number of core issues in biomedical ethics: organ transplants, end-of-life care, human-subject research, and access to health care. Readings in primary and secondary sources, including international treaties and standards.
INRL 529/ EMD 591, Water, Infectious Disease, and Global Health. Kristina Talbert-Slagle
Water is fundamental to life. We cannot survive without it, and yet unsafe water threatens the health of people throughout the world. This course focuses on the role of water in global health, with emphasis on the myriad ways that water affects the spread of disease, how poor sanitation contributes to unsafe water, and the different interventions that may improve water quality—and therefore, health—of people around the world.
INRL622/ HIST 718, Social Movements in Comparative Perspective, Becky Conekin
In this seminar we explore post-WWII social movements and their legacies across Western Europe and the United States. Examining both the actuality and symbolic character of these movements in contemporary history, we analyze the political, social, and cultural meanings of protest and its impact on class, generational, gender, and racial relations in Western Europe and North America. In addition, if
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students have specific interests in Eastern European and/or Latin American countries, they may bring these into the discussion and write on them in a comparative perspective in their final paper. We discuss different national histories and discourses about identity, while exploring the varied geographies of the
Cold War. We then move to a more thematic approach focusing on, for example, civil rights, antiwar and student protests, and countercultural politics. We conclude with a brief look at the social movements that developed out of the 1960s.
INRL 624/ ANTH 640, Global Health: Ethnographic Perspectives. Marcia Inhorn
This interdisciplinary seminar, designed for graduate students in Anthropology and Global Health, explores in an in-depth fashion anthropological ethnographies on many of the serious health problems facing populations in resource-poor societies around the globe. The course focuses on three major issues: (1) poverty, structural violence, and health as a human right; (2) struggles with infectious disease; and (3) the health of women and children (and men, too). Within these three themes, many major issues of global health concern are addressed, including the health-demoting effects of poverty, racism, patriarchy, and inhumane conditions of life and labor in many countries; men's and women's sexuality in the era of HIV/AIDS; the politics of epidemic disease control and other disasters, and the role of communities, nation-states, and international organizations in responding to such crises; issues of coercion in population control and the quest for reproductive rights; and how child health is ultimately dependent on the health and well-being of mothers. The underlying purpose of the course is to develop students' awareness of the political, socioeconomic, ecological, and cultural complexity of most health problems in so-called developing nations and the consequent need for anthropological sensitivity, contextualization, and activist involvement in the field of global health. The course is also designed to expose students to salient health issues in many parts of the world from the United States to China.
However, the primary focus is on global health issues facing sub-Saharan Africa and Latin America.
INRL 650, Non-State Actors in World Politics. Susan Hyde
Within global governance, the role of non-state actors such as international organizations, transnational advocacy networks, multinational corporations, and terrorist networks has become important yet understudied. After reviewing how non-state actors fit into dominant theories of international relations, the course focuses on how to evaluate the relevance of non-state actors in specific areas of international politics and how non-state actors may help or hinder specific international problems. Issue areas that are covered include human rights, money, terrorism, globalization, and international environmental politics.
INRL 652 /HIST 980, Genocide in History and Theory. Benedict Kiernan
Comparative research and analysis of genocidal occurrences from ancient times to the present; theories and case studies; and inter-regional, interdisciplinary perspective. Readings and discussion, guest speakers, research paper.
INRL 696, Elements of Global Governance: Values and Interests at Crossroads. Ana Palacio
The existing multilateral legal and institutional framework is ill-equipped to address inherent challenges of global governance: weak and failed states, porous borders, non-state actors, poverty, pandemics, or climate change. This course analyzes, from a practical and normative perspective, key elements of global governance based on the case studies drawn from the instructor's professional experience in politics and international organizations. Part I of the course examines global governance actors, questioning the adequacy of the UN–Bretton Woods system; the role of new, powerful, non-institutional actors, such as
G20; the changing role of the state; or the concept of failed state. Part II deals with modern challenges to traditional forms of international governance and focuses in particular on the shortage of natural
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resources and food staples, proliferation of nuclear weapons, poverty, and genocide. Part III studies global governance processes: transition from authoritarianism to democracy, consequences of decolonization, and the European Union institutions as a blueprint for global governance. The course includes a trip to the UN headquarters in New York on a selected date and a crisis simulation exercise during the last class.
INRL 715, International Dimensions of Financial Crises. Domingo Cavallo
Banking crises and financial bubbles were common in national economies when cross border capital movements were very limited, but financial globalization has greatly increased the frequency and deepness of these types of crises. The seminar uses case studies in both developing and developed nations to discuss how the monetary, fiscal and regulatory regimes contribute to the origin and solution of financial crisis. The discussion is based on basic international macroeconomics as a theoretical framework. Five sessions will be devoted to review the main theoretical concepts. The purpose of the seminar is to provide to the participants tools to understand the need for international monetary, regulatory and fiscal cooperation and to be able to analyze and develop ideas for transforming the G20 into a constructive process for Global Governance.
ANTH 542, Cultures and Markets: Asian Connections through Time and Space. Helen Siu
Historical and contemporary movement of people, goods, and cultural meanings that have connected an
Asian region spanning East Asia, Indian Ocean, Middle East, and Africa. The course rethinks statecentered and land-based perspectives by highlighting the dynamism in multiethnic commercial nodes, port cities, trans-regional institutions, and their impact on local societies. It focuses on agents of trade, colonial encounters, diverse religious traditions, and global finance flows. It examines the cultures of capital and market in the age of empires, the neoliberal and post-socialist worlds.
ANTH 638, Culture, Power, Oil. Douglas Rogers
The course analyzes the production, circulation, and consumption of petroleum in order to explore key topics in recent social and cultural theory, including globalization, empire, cultural performance, natural resource extraction, and the nature of the state. Case studies from the United States, Saudi Arabia,
Nigeria, Venezuela, and the former Soviet Union, among others.
EMD 543, Global Aspects of Food and Nutrition. Debbie Humphries
The course presents a core topic in global health and development that is at the intersection of science, society, and policy. The course familiarizes students with leading approaches to analyzing the causes of malnutrition in countries around the world and to designing and evaluating nutrition interventions. It covers micronutrient and macronutrient deficiencies; approaches to reducing malnutrition; the cultural, economic, environmental, agricultural, and policy context within which malnutrition exists; and the relationships between common infections and nutritional status.
EMD 557, Global HIV/AIDS: Challenges and Response. Kaveh Khoshnood
This course provides an overview of the critical issues in the global epidemiology and prevention of
HIV/AIDS among vulnerable populations. The course emphasizes the importance of multidisciplinary approaches to the comprehension of and response to the HIV/AIDS pandemic. The course is designed to go beyond the mere provision of information by encouraging students to develop the ability to critically access and analyze research, programmatic, policy, and ethical challenges raised by the HIV/AIDS pandemic.
HIST 807/ AMST 650/ ANTH 510, Resistance, Rebellion, and Survival Strategies in Modern Latin
America. Gilbert Joseph & Patricia Pessar
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An interdisciplinary examination of new conceptual and methodological approaches to such phenomena as peasants in revolution, millenarianism, "banditry," refugee movements, and transnational migration.
HIST 849/ AFST 849, Agrarian History of Africa. Robert Harms
The course examines changes in African rural life from pre-colonial times to the present. Issues to be examined include land use systems, rural modes of production, gender roles, markets and trade, the impact of colonialism, cash cropping, rural-urban migration, and development schemes.
HIST 902/ EAST 525/ HSHM 707/ EMD 588, Impact of Epidemic Disease in Context: Focus on Asia.
William Summers
The course brings historical, geopolitical, medical, and public health perspectives to bear on the study of specific epidemics, with a focus on Asia. Case studies include major epidemics such as cholera in the
Philippines and plague in Manchuria in the early twentieth century, the story of Japan's biological warfare Unit 731 in World War II, recurrent influenza pandemics, and more recently, Nipah virus outbreaks in Malaysia, SARS in China, and pneumonic plague in Gujarat, India.
HIST 965/ F&ES 836/ ANTH 541/ PLSC 779, Agrarian Societies: Culture, Society, History, and
Development. Michael McGovern, James Scott, Elisabeth Wood
An interdisciplinary examination of agrarian societies (contemporary and historical, Western and non-
Western). Major analytical perspectives from anthropology, economics, history, political science, and environmental studies are used to develop a meaning-centered and historically grounded account of the transformations of rural society. Team-taught.
PLSC 726, Property Rights, Politics, and the Economy. Ato Onoma
What are property rights? What are the mechanisms that guarantee property rights? What are the impacts of property rights on the economy and on politics? What effects do property rights have on social justice and equality? Why are property rights more secure in some places than in others? What accounts for the transformation and persistence of property rights systems? These are some of the questions that the course addresses.
REL 975, Seminar on Faith and Globalization. Miroslav Volf
This course explores a set of issues concerning the public role of religious faiths in the context of globalization. Course meetings familiarize students with the phenomena of globalization and contemporary religious faiths, explore the question of religious exclusivism in the context of a pluralistic world, and examine particular instances of social, economic, and political meeting points of faiths and public life in the world today.
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