Resource Type: Project
Instructor: Jorge A. Alves
Title: Associate Professor
Department: Political Science + Latin American and Latino Studies Program
Course: PSCI 230 Politics of Development

This resource is an assignment for a course on the politics of international development (PSCI 230). This assignment will likely be a summative assignment either at the end of the first unit (where I discuss the different theories / approaches to development over time) or perhaps a substitute for the midterm exam. The goals of the assignment are A) for students to localize and critically ground existing global theories of development in their own lived experience / communities, and B) critically reflect on core assumptions and implications about the different conceptualizations of development (especially to see how these approaches might change / be layered over time, and yet be resilient across contexts). It asks students to critically engage how global ideas are present in their communities broadly construed, but also physically in the neighborhoods / enclaves in which they might live in.