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Program Requirements
The specialization provides a focus on social science offerings from the International Development Studies program offered by the Faculty of Arts for students in the International Agriculture and Food Systems (IAFS) major. The program combines an overview of development and social science course options with opportunity for field experience.
Specialization Adviser: Professor Anwar Naseem
Macdonald-Stewart Building, Room 3-037
514-398-7825
Required Course (3 credits)
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INTD 200 Introduction to International Development (3 credits)
Overview
International Development : An interdisciplinary introduction to the field of International Development Studies focusing on the theory and practice of development. It examines various approaches to international development, including past and present relationships between developed and underdeveloped societies, and pays particular attention to power and resource distribution globally and within nations.
Terms: Fall 2010
Instructors: Pushkar, P (Fall)
Complementary Courses (21 credits)
21 credits selected as follows:
3 credits of research or internship coursework
18 credits from one of two streams:
- Economic Development and Living Standards
- Environment and Agricultural Resources
Research or Internship Coursework
3 credits from:
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AGRI 498 Agricultural Development Research (3 credits)
Overview
Agriculture : Supervised reading and research project related to agriculture, food systems, nutrition and health in developing countries.
Terms: Fall 2010, Winter 2011
Instructors: Naseem, Anwar (Fall) Naseem, Anwar (Winter)
- Prerequisite: Permission of instructor
- Restriction: Open only to U2 or U3 students in the IAFS major.
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AGRI 499 Agricultural Development Internship (3 credits)
Overview
Agriculture : Supervised internship in a developing country and/or for an organization engaged in agricultural development.
Terms: Fall 2010, Winter 2011
Instructors: Naseem, Anwar (Fall) Naseem, Anwar (Winter)
- Prerequisite: Permission of instructor
- Restriction: Open only to U2 or U3 students in the IAFS major.
Economic Development and Living Standards Stream
Students selecting this stream complete 18 credits from:
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AGEC 430 Agriculture, Food and Resource Policy (3 credits)
Overview
Agricultural Economics : Examination of North American and international agriculture, food and resource policies, policy instruments, programs and their implications. Economic analysis applied to the principles, procedures and objectives of various policy actions affecting agriculture, and the environment.
Terms: Winter 2011
Instructors: Henning, John C (Winter)
- Winter
- 3 lectures
- Prerequisites: AGEC 200 or equivalent
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AGEC 442 Economics of International Agricultural Development (3 credits)
Overview
Agricultural Economics : The course deals with economic aspects of international development with emphasis on the role of food, agriculture and the resource sector in the economy of developing countries. Topics will include world food analysis, development project analysis and policies for sustainable development. Development case studies will be used.
Terms: Winter 2011
Instructors: Naseem, Anwar (Winter)
- Winter
- 3 lectures
- Prerequisites: AGEC 200 or AGEC 201 or equivalent
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AGRI 411 Global Issues on Development, Food and Agriculture (3 credits)
Overview
Agriculture : International development and world food security and challenges in developing countries. Soil and water management, climate change, demographic issues, plant and animal resources conservation, bio-products and biofuels, economic and environmental issues specially in tropical and sub-tropical regions. Globalization, sustainable development, technology transfer and human resources needs for rural development.
Terms: Winter 2011
Instructors: Monardes, Humberto (Winter)
- Winter
- 3 lectures and 1 conference
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ANTH 227 Medical Anthropology (3 credits)
Overview
Anthropology : Beliefs and practices concerning sickness and healing are examined in a variety of Western and non-Western settings. Special attention is given to cultural constructions of the body and to theories of disease causation and healing efficacy. Topics include international health, medical pluralism, transcultural psychiatry, and demography.
Terms: Fall 2010
Instructors: Stevenson, Margaret (Fall)
- Fall
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ECON 209 Macroeconomic Analysis and Applications (3 credits)
Overview
Economics (Arts) : A university-level introduction to national income determination, money and banking, inflation, unemployment and economic policy.
Terms: Fall 2010, Winter 2011, Summer 2011
Instructors: Dickinson, Paul (Fall) Dickinson, Paul; El-Attar Vilalta, Mayssun (Winter)
- Prerequisites: ECON 208 or permission of the instructor
- Restriction: Not open to students who have taken or are taking ECON 330 or ECON 352
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ECON 223 Political Economy of Trade Policy (3 credits)
Overview
Economics (Arts) : The course introduces students to the economics of international trade, what constitutes good trade policy, and how trade policy is decided. The course examines Canadian trade policy since 1945, including the GATT, Auto Pact, the FTA and NAFTA, and concludes with special topics in trade policy.
Terms: This course is not scheduled for the 2010-2011 academic year.
Instructors: There are no professors associated with this course for the 2010-2011 academic year.
- Prerequisite: ECON 208
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ECON 326 Ecological Economics (3 credits)
Overview
Economics (Arts) : Macroeconomic and structural aspects of the ecological crisis. A course in which subjects discussed include the conflict between economic growth and the laws of thermodynamics; the search for alternative economic indicators; the fossil fuels crisis; and "green'' fiscal policy.
Terms: Fall 2010
Instructors: Naylor, Robin Thomas (Fall)
- Prerequisites: ECON 208 and ECON 209 or consent of instructor
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ECON 336 The Chinese Economy (3 credits)
Overview
Economics (Arts) : Examination of the growth and transformation of the Chinese economy and the domestic and international implications.
Terms: This course is not scheduled for the 2010-2011 academic year.
Instructors: There are no professors associated with this course for the 2010-2011 academic year.
- Prerequisites: ECON 208 and ECON 209 (or ECON 230D1/D2 or 250D1/D2).
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ECON 411 Economic Development: A World Area (3 credits)
Overview
Economics (Arts) : An advanced course in the economic development of a pre-designated underdeveloped country or a group of countries.
Terms: Fall 2010
Instructors: Kurien, John C (Fall)
- Prerequisites: ECON 230 or ECON 250 and one semester of economic development
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ECON 416 Topics in Economic Development 2 (3 credits)
Overview
Economics (Arts) : This course gives students a broad overview of the economics of developing countries. The course covers micro and macro topics, with particular emphasis on the economic analysis at the micro level.
Terms: This course is not scheduled for the 2010-2011 academic year.
Instructors: There are no professors associated with this course for the 2010-2011 academic year.
- Prerequisite: ECON 230 or ECON 250 or permission of the instructor
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GEOG 310 Development and Livelihoods (3 credits)
Overview
Geography : Geographical dimensions of rural/urban livelihoods in the face of socioeconomic and environmental change in developing regions. Emphasis on household natural resource use, survival strategies and vulnerability, decision-making, formal and informal institutions, migration, and development experience in contrasting global environments.
Terms: Winter 2011
Instructors: Coomes, Oliver T; Wenzel, George; Turner, Sarah (Winter)
- Prerequisite(s):GEOG 210 or 216 or ENVR 201 or INTD 200
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GEOG 403 Global Health and Environmental Change (3 credits)
Overview
Geography : Major themes and contemporary case studies in global health and environmental change. Focus on understanding global trends in emerging infectious disease from social, biophysical, and geographical perspectives, and critically assessing the health implications of environmental change in different international contexts.
Terms: Fall 2010
Instructors: Berrang Ford, Lea (Fall)
- Fall
- Prerequisite(s): GEOG 205 OR GEOG 221 OR GEOG 321 OR GEOG 303 or Permission from the instructor.
- Restriction(s): Course not open to students who were registered for GEOG 303 in Winter 2008.
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GEOG 409 Geographies of Developing Asia (3 credits)
Overview
Geography : Current development questions that are of concern to the Asian region. Emphasis on critically studying the major processes of social, economic and environmental change through regional case studies in rural, peri-urban and urban contexts. Covers important debates and considerations that lie at the heart of development geography.
Terms: This course is not scheduled for the 2010-2011 academic year.
Instructors: There are no professors associated with this course for the 2010-2011 academic year.
- Prerequisite(s): GEOG 210 OR GEOG 216 OR ENVR 201 OR INTD 200 OR GEOG 310 or permission of instructor.
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GEOG 508 Resources, People and Power (3 credits)
Overview
Geography : Addresses how different groups of people struggle over natural resources and environmental change. Politics of conservation in resource-dependent local communities, struggles over resource access and character, questions of power, resistance, class, and gender, and to "nature" as a socially-constructed yet active player.
Terms: This course is not scheduled for the 2010-2011 academic year.
Instructors: There are no professors associated with this course for the 2010-2011 academic year.
- Fall
- 3 hours
- Prerequisite: GEOG 408 or GEOG 410 or permission of instructor
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HIST 348 China: Science-Medicine-Technology (3 credits)
Overview
History : An introduction to traditional Chinese ideas about human beings and their relationship with heaven and earth. Special emphasis on the history of medicine and the body, alchemy, geomancy and divination techniques, agriculture and sericulture, astronomy, and engineering and their relation to changing social and cultural formations.
Terms: This course is not scheduled for the 2010-2011 academic year.
Instructors: There are no professors associated with this course for the 2010-2011 academic year.
- Prerequisite: HIST 208 or HIST 218 or permission of instructor
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HIST 381 Colonial Africa: Health/Disease (3 credits)
Overview
History : A study of the impact of disease on African societies over the last three centuries. Topics include: the efforts of Africans to control their ecology, and to maintain their own medical traditions; the wider African responses to Western bio-medicine, and the relationship of disease to nutrition, demography, and public health.
Terms: This course is not scheduled for the 2010-2011 academic year.
Instructors: There are no professors associated with this course for the 2010-2011 academic year.
- Prerequisite: HIST 200 and HIST 201 or HIST 349 or permission of the instructor
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HIST 396 Disease in Africa Since 1960 (3 credits)
Overview
History : This course examines the negatives and positives of African health since independence: the rise of new pathogens, especially HIV/AIDS, and the revitalization of old ones, such as drug resistant tuberculosis and malaria. Also examined are the growth of health infrastructure, and international successes such as the eradication of smallpox.
Terms: This course is not scheduled for the 2010-2011 academic year.
Instructors: There are no professors associated with this course for the 2010-2011 academic year.
- Prerequisite: HIST 200 and HIST 201 or HIST 349 or permission of the instructor
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MGCR 360 Social Context of Business (3 credits)
Overview
Management Core : This course examines how business interacts with the larger society. It explores the development of modern capitalist society, and the dilemmas that organizations face in acting in a socially responsible manner. Students will examine these issues with reference to sustainable development, business ethics, globalization and developing countries, and political activity.
Terms: Fall 2010, Winter 2011, Summer 2011
Instructors: Gladu, Cheryl; Chauvin, Louis Romeo; Younkin, Peter; Berger, Stephanie (Fall) Chauvin, Louis Romeo; Etzion, Dror; McCully, Philip; Gladu, Cheryl (Winter) Gladu, Cheryl (Summer)
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MGCR 382 International Business (3 credits)
Overview
Management Core : An introduction to the world of international business. Economic foundations of international trade and investment. The international trade, finance, and regulatory frameworks. Relations between international companies and nation-states, including costs and benefits of foreign investment and alternative controls and responses. Effects of local environmental characteristics on the operations of multi-national enterprises.
Terms: Fall 2010, Winter 2011, Summer 2011
Instructors: Saba, John; Matziorinis, Nicholas; Madan, Sujata (Fall) Struben, Jeroen; Madan, Sujata; Saba, John (Winter) Saba, John (Summer)
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MGPO 475 Strategies for Developing Countries (3 credits)
Overview
Management Policy : Strategic management challenges in developing and emerging economies. Focus on strategies that foster both firm competitiveness and economic development, including: technological capabilities, new forms of organization, small and large firms, global production, social impact, global standards and governance.
Terms: Winter 2011
Instructors: Marques, Jose Carlos (Winter)
- Restriction: Open to U2, U3 students only
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MIME 524 Mineral Resources Economics (3 credits)
Overview
Mining & Materials Engineering : Analysis of significant factors affecting mineral supply, including oil and gas. Role of governments, concept of economic rent and determinants of a mineral policy. Objectives, strategies and concerns of mining and oil and gas companies. International resource environment, commodity associations, mineral investment and trade patterns.
Terms: This course is not scheduled for the 2010-2011 academic year.
Instructors: There are no professors associated with this course for the 2010-2011 academic year.
- (3-0-6)
- Prerequisite: MIME 310 or equivalent, or permission of instructor
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NRSC 340 Global Perspectives on Food (3 credits)
Overview
Natural Resource Sciences : Issues of community and global change in relation to environment and the production of food. Contrasts between developed and developing countries will highlight impacts of colonialism, political structures, and cultural systems related to gender, class and ethnicity.
Terms: This course is not scheduled for the 2010-2011 academic year.
Instructors: There are no professors associated with this course for the 2010-2011 academic year.
- Winter
- 3 lectures
- Prerequisite: A 200-level course in food science, food resources or dietetics, or permission of instructor.
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NRSC 540 Socio-Cultural Issues in Water (3 credits)
Overview
Natural Resource Sciences : Discussion of current debates and problems related to water, especially in developing countries. Topics include: gender relations and health in the context of cultural and economic systems, and the impacts of new technologies, market structures and population growth.
Terms: This course is not scheduled for the 2010-2011 academic year.
Instructors: There are no professors associated with this course for the 2010-2011 academic year.
- Winter
- Prerequisite: A 300- or 400-level course in water or permission of instructor.
- 3-hour seminar
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POLI 423 Politics of Ethno-Nationalism (3 credits)
Overview
Political Science : Theories of ethno-nationalism examined in light of experience in Asia, Middle East and Africa. Topics include formation and mobilization of national, ethnic and religious identities in colonial and post-colonial societies; impact of ethno-nationalism on pluralism, democracy, class and gender relations; means to preserve tolerance in multicultural societies.
Terms: Fall 2010
Instructors: Subramanian, Narendra (Fall)
- Prerequisites: one 300 or 400-level course in comparative politics; and one 300 or 400-level course on developing areas (any discipline.) The same course can fulfill both requirements
- Note: The area in the field of Comparative Politics is Developing Areas.
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POLI 445 International Political Economy: Monetary Relations (3 credits)
Overview
Political Science : Advanced course in international political economy; the politics of international of monetary relations, such as international rules governing international finance, the reasons for and consequences of financial flows, and the functioning of international financial bodies such as the IMF and World Bank.
Terms: Winter 2011
Instructors: Brawley, Mark R (Winter)
- Prerequisites: POLI 243 or permission of the instructor.
- Note: The field is International Politics.
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SOCI 307 Sociology of Globalization (3 credits)
Overview
Sociology (Arts) : Core sociological and political issues of the globalization debate, such as trade, global production networks and the new international division of labor, global inequalities, the ecological crisis, the reform of international institutions, and the emergence of the global justice movement.
Terms: Fall 2010
Instructors: Ancelovici, Marc (Fall)
- Prerequisite: SOCI 210 or Permission of Instructor
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SOCI 309 Health and Illness (3 credits)
Overview
Sociology (Arts) : Health and illness as social rather than purely bio-medical phenomena. Topics include: studies of ill persons, health care occupations and organizations; poverty and health; inequalities in access to and use of health services; recent policies, ideologies, and problems in reform of health services organization.
Terms: Fall 2010
Instructors: Quesnel Vallee, Amelie (Fall)
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SOCI 365 Health and Development (3 credits)
Overview
Sociology (Arts) : Main concepts and controversies linking health to broader social and economic conditions in low income countries. Topics include the demographic and epidemiological transitions, the health and wealth conundrum, the social determinants of health, health as an economic development strategy, and the impact of the AIDS pandemic.
Terms: Fall 2010
Instructors: Clark, Shelley (Fall)
- Prerequisite: SOCI 234 or SOCI 254
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SOCI 513 Social Aspects HIV/AIDS in Africa (3 credits)
Overview
Sociology (Arts) : Examination of the social causes and consequences of HIV/AIDS in Africa. Gender inequality, sexual behaviours, marriage systems, migration, and poverty are shaping the pandemic as well as how the pandemic is altering social, demographic and economic conditions across Africa.
Terms: Fall 2010
Instructors: Clark, Shelley (Fall)
- Prerequisites: SOCI 225 or SOCI 309 or Permission of Instructor.
Environment and Agricultural Resources Stream
Students selecting this stream complete 18 credits from:
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AGEC 430 Agriculture, Food and Resource Policy (3 credits)
Overview
Agricultural Economics : Examination of North American and international agriculture, food and resource policies, policy instruments, programs and their implications. Economic analysis applied to the principles, procedures and objectives of various policy actions affecting agriculture, and the environment.
Terms: Winter 2011
Instructors: Henning, John C (Winter)
- Winter
- 3 lectures
- Prerequisites: AGEC 200 or equivalent
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AGEC 442 Economics of International Agricultural Development (3 credits)
Overview
Agricultural Economics : The course deals with economic aspects of international development with emphasis on the role of food, agriculture and the resource sector in the economy of developing countries. Topics will include world food analysis, development project analysis and policies for sustainable development. Development case studies will be used.
Terms: Winter 2011
Instructors: Naseem, Anwar (Winter)
- Winter
- 3 lectures
- Prerequisites: AGEC 200 or AGEC 201 or equivalent
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ANTH 206 Environment and Culture (3 credits)
Overview
Anthropology : Introduction to ecological anthropology, focusing on social and cultural adaptations to different environments, human impact on the environment, cultural constructions of the environment, management of common resources, and conflict over the use of resources.
Terms: Fall 2010
Instructors: Scott, Colin Hartley (Fall)
- Fall
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ANTH 301 Nomadic Pastoralists (3 credits)
Overview
Anthropology : Variations in herding systems over a wide range of habitats and involving a variety of species of domestic livestock. Comparative perspectives on the prehistory of pastoral systems, on the ideologies, cultures, and social and economic systems of nomadic pastoralists. Relations with non-pastoralists and the effects of change and development will also be examined.
Terms: This course is not scheduled for the 2010-2011 academic year.
Instructors: There are no professors associated with this course for the 2010-2011 academic year.
- Fall
- Prerequisite: ANTH 202, or ANTH 205, or ANTH 206, or ANTH 212
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ANTH 339 Ecological Anthropology (3 credits)
Overview
Anthropology : Intensive study of theories and cases in ecological anthropology. Theories are examined and tested through comparative case-study analysis. Cultural constructions of "nature" and "environment" are compared and analyzed. Systems of resource management and conflicts over the use of resources are studied in depth.
Terms: Winter 2011
Instructors: Scott, Colin Hartley (Winter)
- Winter
- Prerequisite: ANTH 204, or ANTH 206, or SOCI 328, or GEOG 300 or ENVR 201, or ENVR 203, or permission of instructor
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ANTH 418 Environment and Development (3 credits)
Overview
Anthropology : Advanced study of the environmental crisis in developing and advanced industrial nations, with emphasis on the social and cultural dimensions of natural resource management and environmental change. Each year, the seminar will focus on a particular set of issues, delineated by type of resource, geographic region, or analytical problem.
Terms: This course is not scheduled for the 2010-2011 academic year.
Instructors: There are no professors associated with this course for the 2010-2011 academic year.
- Fall
- Prerequisite: ANTH 339, or ANTH 349, or SOCI 328, or GEOG 300, or GEOG 302, or permission of instructor
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ANTH 512 Political Ecology (3 credits)
Overview
Anthropology : Historical, theoretical and methodological development of political ecology as a field of inquiry on the interactions between society and environment, in the context of conflicts over natural resources.
Terms: This course is not scheduled for the 2010-2011 academic year.
Instructors: There are no professors associated with this course for the 2010-2011 academic year.
- Winter
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ECON 326 Ecological Economics (3 credits)
Overview
Economics (Arts) : Macroeconomic and structural aspects of the ecological crisis. A course in which subjects discussed include the conflict between economic growth and the laws of thermodynamics; the search for alternative economic indicators; the fossil fuels crisis; and "green'' fiscal policy.
Terms: Fall 2010
Instructors: Naylor, Robin Thomas (Fall)
- Prerequisites: ECON 208 and ECON 209 or consent of instructor
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GEOG 302 Environmental Management 1 (3 credits)
Overview
Geography : An ecological analysis of the physical and biotic components of natural resource systems. Emphasis on scientific, technological and institutional aspects of environmental management. Study of the use of biological resources and of the impact of individual processes.
Terms: Fall 2010, Summer 2011
Instructors: Meredith, Thomas C (Fall)
- 3 hours
- Prerequisite: Any 200-level course in Geography or MSE or BIOL 208 or permission of instructor.
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GEOG 403 Global Health and Environmental Change (3 credits)
Overview
Geography : Major themes and contemporary case studies in global health and environmental change. Focus on understanding global trends in emerging infectious disease from social, biophysical, and geographical perspectives, and critically assessing the health implications of environmental change in different international contexts.
Terms: Fall 2010
Instructors: Berrang Ford, Lea (Fall)
- Fall
- Prerequisite(s): GEOG 205 OR GEOG 221 OR GEOG 321 OR GEOG 303 or Permission from the instructor.
- Restriction(s): Course not open to students who were registered for GEOG 303 in Winter 2008.
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GEOG 408 Geography of Development (3 credits)
Overview
Geography : Examines the geographical dimensions of development policy, specifically the relationships between the process of development and human-induced environmental change. Focuses on environmental sustainability, struggles over resource control, population and poverty, and levels of governance (the role of the state, non-governmental organizations, and local communities).
Terms: Fall 2010
Instructors: Unruh, Jon (Fall)
- Fall
- 3 hours
- Prerequisite: GEOG 210 or GEOG 216 or permission of instructor
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GEOG 410 Geography of Underdevelopment: Current Problems (3 credits)
Overview
Geography : An examination of the cultural, political, and economic mechanisms and manifestations of contemporary underdevelopment and the response to it from different regional and national peripheral societies within the dominant world economic system.
Terms: Winter 2011
Instructors: Akman, Geraldine (Winter)
- Winter
- 3 hours
- Prerequisite: GEOG 216 or permission of instructor
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GEOG 508 Resources, People and Power (3 credits)
Overview
Geography : Addresses how different groups of people struggle over natural resources and environmental change. Politics of conservation in resource-dependent local communities, struggles over resource access and character, questions of power, resistance, class, and gender, and to "nature" as a socially-constructed yet active player.
Terms: This course is not scheduled for the 2010-2011 academic year.
Instructors: There are no professors associated with this course for the 2010-2011 academic year.
- Fall
- 3 hours
- Prerequisite: GEOG 408 or GEOG 410 or permission of instructor
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GEOG 510 Humid Tropical Environments (3 credits)
Overview
Geography : Focus on the environmental and human spatial relationships in tropical rain forest and savanna landscapes. Human adaptation to variations within these landscapes through time and space. Biophysical constraints upon "development" in the modern era.
Terms: Fall 2010
Instructors: Coomes, Oliver T (Fall)
- Fall
- 3 hours
- Prerequisite: GEOG 203 or equivalent and written permission of the instructor
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MGCR 360 Social Context of Business (3 credits)
Overview
Management Core : This course examines how business interacts with the larger society. It explores the development of modern capitalist society, and the dilemmas that organizations face in acting in a socially responsible manner. Students will examine these issues with reference to sustainable development, business ethics, globalization and developing countries, and political activity.
Terms: Fall 2010, Winter 2011, Summer 2011
Instructors: Gladu, Cheryl; Chauvin, Louis Romeo; Younkin, Peter; Berger, Stephanie (Fall) Chauvin, Louis Romeo; Etzion, Dror; McCully, Philip; Gladu, Cheryl (Winter) Gladu, Cheryl (Summer)
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MIME 524 Mineral Resources Economics (3 credits)
Overview
Mining & Materials Engineering : Analysis of significant factors affecting mineral supply, including oil and gas. Role of governments, concept of economic rent and determinants of a mineral policy. Objectives, strategies and concerns of mining and oil and gas companies. International resource environment, commodity associations, mineral investment and trade patterns.
Terms: This course is not scheduled for the 2010-2011 academic year.
Instructors: There are no professors associated with this course for the 2010-2011 academic year.
- (3-0-6)
- Prerequisite: MIME 310 or equivalent, or permission of instructor
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NRSC 340 Global Perspectives on Food (3 credits)
Overview
Natural Resource Sciences : Issues of community and global change in relation to environment and the production of food. Contrasts between developed and developing countries will highlight impacts of colonialism, political structures, and cultural systems related to gender, class and ethnicity.
Terms: This course is not scheduled for the 2010-2011 academic year.
Instructors: There are no professors associated with this course for the 2010-2011 academic year.
- Winter
- 3 lectures
- Prerequisite: A 200-level course in food science, food resources or dietetics, or permission of instructor.
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NRSC 540 Socio-Cultural Issues in Water (3 credits)
Overview
Natural Resource Sciences : Discussion of current debates and problems related to water, especially in developing countries. Topics include: gender relations and health in the context of cultural and economic systems, and the impacts of new technologies, market structures and population growth.
Terms: This course is not scheduled for the 2010-2011 academic year.
Instructors: There are no professors associated with this course for the 2010-2011 academic year.
- Winter
- Prerequisite: A 300- or 400-level course in water or permission of instructor.
- 3-hour seminar
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NUTR 501 Nutrition in Developing Countries (3 credits)
Overview
Nutrition and Dietetics : This course will cover the major nutritional problems in developing countries. The focus will be on nutrition and health and emphasize young children and other vulnerable groups. The role of diet and disease for each major nutritional problem will be discussed.
Terms: Fall 2010
Instructors: Marquis, Grace (Fall)
- Fall
- 2 lectures and one seminar
- Prerequisite: For undergraduate students, consent of instructor required
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URBP 506 Environmental Policy and Planning (3 credits)
Overview
Urban Planning : Analytical and institutional approaches for understanding and addressing urban and other environmental problems at various scales; characteristics of environmental problems and implications; political-institutional context and policy instruments; risk perception and implications; cost-benefit analysis, risk assessment, multiple-objectives approaches, life-cycle analysis; policy implementation issues; case studies.
Terms: Winter 2011
Instructors: Badami, Madhav Govind (Winter)
- (3-0-6)
- Restriction: This course is open to students in U3 and above
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URBP 520 Globalization: Planning and Change (3 credits)
Overview
Urban Planning : Economic and social issues related to planning for sustainable development, with a focus on water. Political and environmental determinants of resource use. Impact of global, regional and local institutions, programs and plans in Barbados and in the field locale in general.
Terms: Fall 2010
Instructors: Phillip, Leroy E; Alli, Inteaz (Fall)
- (3-3-3)
- Restriction: Must be enrolled in the Barbados Field Study Semester.
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