Quick Update on Classes
Trip Start
Aug 02, 2008
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Trip End
Sep 30, 2009
London,
England,
United Kingdom
Sunday, October 5, 2008
Just wanted to drop a line to let you all know how things have been progressing. Not much has changed, I have been to a few induction ceremonies and social mixers, but they just told me what I already knew--this is going to be tough and valuable.
Entries recently have been sparse as Naomi was flying out yesterday. We got a good amount of time in over the last week, so it was nice in that respect, even if she'll be away for a while taking care of her final visa preparations. On the one hand it is only a month, but on the other, this will be a stressful month for me, and she has always been a very calming influence on me.
Here are my classes:
In the Michaelmas Term (Fall Semester)
Development: Theory, History and Policy I ; course deals with definitions, causes and consequences of, and obstacles to, development, as well as patterns of growth and distribution of poverty and inequality in development processes.
Complex Emergencies; The course looks at social, economic and political processes accompanying humanitarian disasters and civil wars.
Global Political Economics of Development I; examines the politics of the international economy. We analyze the overarching rules and regulations that structure the international economy, and thereby provide context for development policy.
Population and Development: An Analytical Approach; critically examines the different analytic approaches to the main interrelationships between population changes and socio-economic development.
Lent Term(Spring Semester)
Development: Theory, History and Policy II; same as above
Managing Globalization; course examines what (if anything) policymakers in developing countries can do to manage the continuing expansion of global trade, the multinationalization of production, and the seemingly inexorable rise in cross-border flows of financial capital.
Global Political Economics of Development II; course examines the political economy of 'North-South' relations,
focusing on how changes in the international policy framework level
affect developing countries' economic trajectories and national-level
strategies for interaction with the global economy.
Managing Humanitarianism; course looks at international, national and local responses to
humanitarian disasters and civil wars, with a specific focus on efforts
to ameliorate social, economic and political processes.
So far the people I have met have seemed knowledgeable, experienced, and very friendly. I am excited to get started--which unfortunately for the length of this entry means I have got to get back to my reading.
Comments
good luck!
Hello Michael, just wanted to say good luck with your classes, they sound really tough. Let Naomi know that we should totally get together if she has the time, it would be nice to see her while she's here for a few weeks.
And don't forget, email me your address! I'd like to send you something for your birthday, so let me know soon so I can ship it. :-)
I miss you, I'm so glad you're enjoying yourself there! Don't get deported!