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Fall 2020
Global Development Studies
GDS 100: A World of Development
GDS 250: Sociology of Development - The Global South
GDS 299C: Special Topics - Humanitarian Emergencies & Aid
An anthropological lens is used to examine the complex causes and impacts of humanitarian emergencies, humanitarian aid responses, and humanitarian aid actors. A wide range of intersecting factors and events (natural and man-made) can give rise to humanitarian conflicts, crises, and emergencies. Equally, humanitarian aid encompasses a wide range of issues, actions, and challenges. Some of the impacts and manifestations of humanitarian emergencies that will be explored include forced migration and internal displacement, genocide, ethnic conflict, gender-based violence, and growing poverty and inequality.
An anthropological perspective is also used to critically examine humanitarian aid and assistance. Ethnographies of aid and aid actors (international and local NGOs, United Nations organizations, and the state) will be explored. Students will engage with case studies of recent complex humanitarian emergencies and humanitarian aid responses such as South Sudan, Darfur, Rwanda, Democratic Republic of Congo, Myanmar and Cox’s Bazaar in Bangladesh, and Haiti. Finally, the course explores the development challenges faced by ‘post-conflict’ countries.
GDS 363: Processes of Development and Underdevelopment: Latin America
GDS 400: Global Development Seminar
Internships
GDS 311: International Internship
Business
BUS 100: Introduction to Business
BUS 204: Management of Non-Profit Organizations
Communications
CMNS 125: Communicating Professionally to Academic and Workplace Audiences
CMNS 180: Introduction to Intercultural Communication
CMNS 212: Introduction to Media and Public Relations
CMNS 251: Professional Report Writing
Criminology
CRIM 220: Research Methods in Criminology
CRIM 320: Quantitative Research Techniques
Economics
ECON 100: Principles of Microeconomics
ECON 101: Principles of Macroeconomics
English
Geography
GEOG 240: World Regional Geography
GEOG 252: Explanation in Geography: Quantitative Methods
Latin American Studies
LAS 200: Social Issues in Latin America
Modern Languages
Political Studies
POSC 230: Comparative Politics
POSC 260: International Relations and Global Politics
POSC 360: The United Nations and International Organizations
POSC 368: Global Issues and Canadian Foreign Policy
Psychology
PSYC 110: Applied Statistical Analysis in Psychology
Statistics
STAT 104: Introductory Statistics
Sociology
SOC 255: Introduction to Social Research
SOC 355: Quantitative Research Methods
Social Work
SOWK 380: Social Work and Community Development