UP 429

Credit: 4 hours.

Course introduces future planners and practitioners to the practical aspects of project design, program development and implementation in the field of international development through lectures, field trips, and group discussions with international planning professionals representing consulting groups and donor agencies, as well as constituency representatives. Course will be organized around a specific development problem and will aim to work through the problem and its solution by discussion of readings, examination of case studies, and exposure of students to processes and procedures of decision making and project implementation within the non-profit international development organizations and international development agencies.

Prerequisite: UP 423 or consent of instructor.