講義概要 /Course description |
This course attempts to find out how people in developing countries can develop their society where each individual can have more and better choices to have decent lives and actualize their potentials for more meaningful lives. To help their efforts, NGOs (non-governmental organizations), governmental agencies, international organizations, private firms and other organizations have been providing resources and opportunities. This course will try to find out what contributions they make and what more and better they can do.
This course will be guided by theories and methods of sociology, development studies, and other relevant disciplines to analyze case studies to understand concrete reality and to see new possibility. The focus will be on micro aspects of development that include lives and situations of individuals, organizations, and communities.
This course will train students to use necessary resources to figure out how they can help people of developing countries to develop such society through their research projects. Students are expected to read assigned materials, make presentation of the assigned reading material, actively participate in discussion, and design their own research projects.
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