Current Courses
Spring 2012
ANTHRO 189: Poverty, Culture & Rights
CIV ENG 290: Design for Sustainable Communities
ENE,RES 175: Water and Development
IAS 120: Using Media Tools for Global Poverty Action
IAS 140: Markets and Missions: A Practicum on Social Enterprise
IAS 180: Educational Justice: Undocumented Students and Struggles around ‘Citizenship
LS 158: Law and Development
PH 112: Global Health
PP C103: Wealth and Poverty
UGBA 195: Entrepreneurship to Address Global Poverty
UGBA 196: Applied Impact Evaluation
Anthropology 189A: Poverty, Culture & Rights
Professor Aihwa Ong
ANTHRO 189A | CCN: 02714 | T-Th 12:30 am – 2:00 pm | 4 units
This course will explore overlaps and tensions between the moral claims of poverty, culture, and rights intervention in the developing world.
Civil and Environmental Engineering 290: Design for Sustainable Communities
Lecturer Susan Addy
CIV ENG 290 | CCN: 14257 | T-Th 3:30 am – 5:00 pm | 3 units
This interdisciplinary course provides hands-on experience in design and implementation of technologies and processes to serve the poor — helping students imagine and create solutions to problems in resource-constrained communities throughout the world. Teams of students take on practical projects, with guidance from subject experts, with the goal of turning innovations into social and business opportunities for real-world dissemination and impact.
Graduate students from all backgrounds are welcome. Undergraduates will be admitted under consent of the instructor, and must attend the first 2 meeting of class before being admitted.
Energy and Resources Group 175: Water and Development
Professor Isha Ray
ENE, RES 175 | CCN: 27374 | T-Th | 9:30 am – 11:00 am | 4 units
This course is organized around the following central question: (How) can water resources be managed with the multiple goals of sustainable use, economic development, poverty alleviation and equity? This course will tackle the problems of water access and use in developing countries; the potential for technological, social and economic solutions to these problems, especially at local levels; the role of institutions (states, NGOs, markets…) in increasing access to water and sanitation; and the pitfalls of and assumptions behind some popular ‘solutions’. The course will draw on insights from public health, institutional economics, environmental politics and sociology, and technological interventions.
IAS 120: Using Media Tools for Global Poverty Action
IAS 120 | CCN:46475 | W 5-8 pm | 3 units
This course is taught by a practicing journalist. It will be especially useful to those of you who plan to complete your practice experience in 2012. To gain entry into this course students must be enrolled in or have completed IAS/GPP 105 and must have a laptop that they can bring to class each week for in-class lab work. A flip video camera will also be required for assignments in this course.
IAS 140: Markets and Missions: A Practicum on Social Enterprise
IAS 140 | No Open Registration, please see registration instructions below | M 3-6 pm, 8 weeks from January 22 to March 12 | 2 units
Markets and Missions: A Practicum on Entrepreneurial Poverty Solutions is a project-based course which critically and creatively examines social entrepreneurship, both in its for-profit and nonprofit forms, as a tool in the service of a world without poverty. Lectures will address the broad range of ethical, strategic and on-the-ground tactical realities which challenge and confront social change agents. This is an 8 week practicum course taught by a well-known practitioner in the world of social enterprise and microfinance investment.
To gain entry into this course students must be Junior or Senior standing and talk with a GPP advisor about their interest in social enterprise to receive a course entry code.
IAS 180: Educational Justice: Undocumented Students and Struggles around
‘Citizenship’
Lecturer Genevieve Negron-Gonzales
IAS 180 | CCN 46483 | T-Th 9:30-11 am | 3 Units
A course that uses the mobilizations around the Dream Act and the debate about undocumented immigration to study the broader topic of educational justice.
LS158: Law and Development
Lecturer in Residence Jamie O’Connell
Legal Studies 158 | CCN 51605 | MWF 1-2 pm | 4 Units
The course will introduce students to major theoretical and practical problems connected to the interaction of law with development. Throughout the course, we will consider the range of ways in which major scholars and development institutions understand “development” and “law.” This is the first course offering in Berkeley Law specially designed for students in the GPP minor.
PH 112: Global Health
Public Health 112 | CCN 75653 | T-Th 11-12:30 pm | 4 Units
Good health, which is not simply the absence of illness and injury, is the result of the complex interplay of many factors, including the legal, social, political, and physical environments, economic forces, food availability and nutrition, access to safe water and sanitation, cultural beliefs and human behaviors, religion, and the availability of affordable preventive measures such as vaccines and of curative services, among others. By definition, global health transcends geo-political borders and standard academic disciplines, so a broad multi-disciplinary approach to its study and understanding is required.
PP C103: Wealth and Poverty
Public Policy C103 | CCN 77127 | Friday 12-2 | 4 Units
This course is designed to provide students with a deeper understanding both of the organization of the political economy in the United States and of other advanced economies, and of why the distribution of earnings, wealth, and opportunity have been diverging in the United States and in other nations. It also is intended to provide insights into the political and public-policy debates that have arisen in light of this divergence, as well as possible means of reversing it.
UGBA 195: Entrepreneurship to Address Global Poverty
UGBA 195 | CCN 08512 | Th 1-4 pm | 3 Units
Entrepreneurship to Address Global Poverty is designed as a campus wide course that takes an interdisciplinary look at poverty and its related challenges from an entrepreneur’s perspective of designing sustainable venture solutions that can turn those challenges into opportunities—rather than that of a policy maker, advocate, researcher or professional service worker in the field. We will examine whether and how global poverty can be addressed through private sector entrepreneurial initiatives that complement other, more traditional efforts such as government programs, private philanthropy and corporate social responsibility activities.
UGBA 196: Selecting Successful Strategies to Reduce Global Poverty
UGBA 196, Section 7 (will be cross listed with Public Health, TBA) | CCN 08548 | M-W 2-3:30 am | 3 Units
Development programs and policies are intended to change outcomes such as raising incomes, increasing productivity, improving learning, or reducing illness. Whether or not these changes in outcomes are actually achieved are crucial public policy and business questions, yet are not often examined. This course covers the methods and applications of impact evaluations, which is the science of measuring the causal impact of a program or policy on outcomes of interest. We hope to hold course entry codes for the Public Health cross-list; for the UGBA cross-list you will have to register directly for the course.
