Unit 1 (up to midterm)

Week 1--development

Development--some background
A model of social change (the infamous POET model)
Development--assumptions, meanings
The role of colonialism
What is structural adjustment lending?
Week 1 wrap-up

Week 2--gender

Gender bias
Gender and poverty
Very brief history of the evolution of the movement
Systems of privilege
Week 2 wrap-up

Week 3--the land

From WID to GAD to WED
Farming systems
More on farming systems
Importance of property rights, land

Week 4--work

Moving to the cities . . . (urban migration)
How cities change things (an African example)
The informal economic sector
Factory life

Week 5--power

The concept
The role of the state, patriarchy
Sources of legitimacy in power and authority

Week 6

Change
Identifying problems

Week 7

Planning
Sending in the experts
Outside the development universe

Week 8

Juarez--some resources
Juarez--background
Juarez--what's going on?
Trafficking