Frameworks for Development (F)
Signature of the instructor required
Framework for Sustainable Development provides a conceptual umbrella to all the course work students do at SID. This required, full-semester course will introduce students to the major currents of thinking about sustainable development. Topics covered include poverty, inequality, globalization, human rights, the environment, and the role of institutions. Students will examine what is known about the drivers of development. Through class work and assignments, students will examine the links between global and national policies and actions for sustainable change at the local level. Offered in fall.
S. Holcombe

Master's Proposal Preparation (M)
Signature of the instructor required
Students work with an academic advisor on their Proposal for a Second Year Project including a problem statement and literature review. Offered in spring.
R. Godoy

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DEVELOPMENT MANAGEMENT
[The Project Cycle]

Planning and Implementation: Concepts and Methods (F)
Signature of the instructor required
This full semester course is for students who wish to study in more depth analytical methods utilized in development planning. Issues and methods of project implementation will be discussed, and drawing on case studies, the course will examine the complex interactions between beneficiary communities, social mobilization and leadership, participation and training, and other factors that affect accountability and achievements. Offered in fall.
L. Simon, M. Howard

The Project Cycle: Evaluation of Social Policies and Programs (F)
Signature of the instructor required
This course reviews methods, tools, and strategies to help managers assess measurable impacts of implementation of both policies and programs. Usually offered in spring.
A.Hahn

Evaluation (M)
Signature of the instructor required
This course explores issues and methods of development project monitoring and evaluation, including economics, social, and environmental, and how these functions are critical to project management. Usually offered in fall and spring.
L. Roper, B. Snell

Benefit / Cost Analysis (M)
Signature of the instructor required
This course introduces students to a benefit/cost analysis as a specialized method in evaluation. Usually offered in spring.
D. Shepard

Policy, Implementation and the Lawmaking Process (M)
Signature of the instructor required
This seminar aims to provide the participants with a sufficient background in legislative theory, methodology and techniques to enable them, in general, to conceptualize how to translate policy into effectively implemented law; and in general, to assess bills purporting to resolve particular social problems. Usually offered in spring.
A. Seidman and R. Seidman

Development Management (M)
Signature of the instructor required
This course will examine the contextual factors that influence the implementation of development as well as the management skills necessary to implementing sustainable development programs. Not offered in 2008/2009.
J. Short

The Learning Organization: Research and Advocacy (M)
Signature of the instructor required
This seminar introduces concepts and methods for using organizational program experience to strengthen internal management, program planning, and public policy. Examines the experience of noted NGOs. Usually offered in spring.
J. Arena DeRosa

Leadership and Organizational Behavior (F)
Signature of the instructor required
This course has a dual focus: (1) leadership; and (2) managing organizations. The integrating theme is the leader as the instrument of justice and fair process inside the organization. Students will be exposed to cases on a variety of organizations. Students will learn organizational concepts, analytic frameworks, and models, and will practice their leadership skills in class. Usually offered in fall.
J. Chilingerian

Civil Society and Non-Government Organizations (M)
Signature of the instructor required
The phenomenal growth in Non-Governmental Organizations throughout the world in the past two decades has transformed the delivery of development assistance and relationships between north and south. This seminar examines the nature of civil society, types of and relationships among NGOs, and NGO relationships with the State, Multilateral and Bilateral Aid Organizations, and community organizations. Usually offered in fall.
not offered in 2008/2009

NGOs: Structure and Governance (M)
Signature of the instructor required
This course is run as an NGO management workshop responding to issues and problems identified by the students. Issues typically covered include, among others, mission statements, structure, governance, participation, and funding. Usually offered in spring.
not offered in 2008/2009

Development in Conflict Situations (M)
Signature of the instructor required
This course will enhance skills in humanitarian work in conflict situations by looking at concrete practices and reflecting on fundamental issues involved. Usually offered in fall and spring.
P. Quintiliani

IS Strategies (M)
Signature of the instructor required
This module introduces students to fundamental issues related to Management Information Systems (MIS). Managers need an understanding of all of their organizational functions along with ways to measure all aspects of business operations. For effective management, this ongoing flood of information flows needs to be ordered, monitored, evaluated, processed and utilized in a number of ways. An effective MIS can provide both a framework and a set of tools to enable managers to accomplish each of these tasks to enable managers to make proper strategic choices and informed decisions. A major part of our work will be to uncover what types of information we need and how best to measure and use this information effectively.
Mr. Fournier

Social Entrepreneurship (M)
Signature of the instructor required
The field of social entrepreneurship is relatively new. It involves creating new ventures that pursue the dual missions of social benefit and financial return on investment. There are nonprofit, for profit, and hybrid social enterprise ventures that have a social mission and aim to be financially self-sufficient or are profit driven. The field is innovative in management approaches to social problems. It is also focused on social issues amenable to these approaches. The field is more involved in social investment than in charitable giving, looking for practical ways to get sustainable social change. Since social enterprises generally start small, basic issues are planning for their social impact, scale, replication, and sustainability. The aims of this course are to introduce the concepts and challenges of social entrepreneurship while also providing the tools to be an effective social entrepreneur.
C. Carlson

Introduction to Geographic Information Systems (M)
Signature of the instructor required
A primer for non-specialists on GIS and its capabilities as a tool of planning and monitoring. This course includes a computer lab. Usually offered in fall.
R. Lakshmikanthan

Applied Geographic Information Systems (M)
Signature of the instructor required
This course will build on the introductory GIS further enabling students to develop greater technical skills in the use of ARCView GIS software; Qualitative skills in data gathering, analysis and presentation; and potential of GIS as a tool for planning and evaluating development projects. This course includes a computer lab. Usually offered in spring.
R. Lakshmikanthan

Also see:

• Integrated Conservation and Development listed under Environment and Conservation
• Gender Analysis in Planning listed under Human Rights / Gender
• Country Development Studies: The Mississippi Delta
• Directed Research: Field Workshop in the Mississippi Delta
  

ENVIRONMENT AND CONSERVATION

Principles of Ecology for Development Planners (M)
Signature of the instructor required
This course introduces ecological principles that influence the sustainability of national and local development programs throughout the world. Usually offered in fall.
E. Olson

Natural Resources Management (M)
Signature of the instructor required
This seminar investigates major issues of natural resource management affecting the sustainability of development. Usually offered in spring.
R. Godoy

Management of Natural Resources and Coexistence (M)
Signature of the instructor required
This course is an examination of regimes for the cooperative and sustainable use of natural resources (such as water, forests, fisheries, biodiversity) by groups in actual or potential conflict over those resources. Usually offered every other year in the spring.
A. Klein

Environmental Impact Assessment (M)
Signature of the instructor required
This seminar is a primer on the basic concepts and methods of Environmental Impact Assessments and adaptations for community-led, small projects. Usually offered in the spring.
M. Howard

Integrated Conservation and Development (M)
Signature of the instructor required
Conservation biologists and economic development planners have often had conflicting priorities and means. This seminar reviews methods of achieving both biodiversity conservation and community development through an integrated approach. Usually offered in the spring.
M. Howard

Sustainable Energy and Climate Change (M)
Signature of the instructor required
On both global and community levels, energy remains a constraint to development and often has negative environmental impacts. Technologies for cheap and renewable energies are opening up new possibilities for poor communities. This seminar explores several of those technologies and their economies. Usually offered in the fall.
A. Bertello

Also see:

• GIS I, II, III courses listed under Development Management
• Country Development Studies: The Mississippi Delta
• Directed Research: Field Workshop in the Mississippi Delta

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ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT

Economic Concepts for Development Practitioners (M)
Signature of the instructor required
Covers basic principles of microeconomics, focusing on the supply and demand framework with applications and examples to developing countries. Offered in fall.
R. Yusim

Economics for Management and Social Policy (F)
Signature of the instructor required
This course introduces techniques of economic analysis, mainly from microeconomics. The tools are applied to problems of management social policy, using case studies and frequent exercises to develop application and quantitative skills. This course is required for students who plan to take more advanced economics. Offered in fall.
R.Godoy

Micro-Enterprise Development and Finance (M)
Signature of the instructor required
This seminar covers a broad range of issues related to the design, implementation and evaluation of Microfinance initiatives reflecting a range of methodologies and approaches. Usually offered in spring.
J. Ashe

Creating Microfinance Institutions and Partnerships (M)
Signature of the instructor required
This seminar covers building and staffing large-scale, cost-effective Microfinance institutions and explores strategies for partnerships with local NGO’s and village level organizations to expand outreach. Usually offered in spring.
J. Ashe

Topics in Development: Household Economics (M)
Signature of the instructor required
Households are the place where decisions are made on consumption, nutrition, health, human capital accumulation, and many other outcomes that affect human welfare, particularly child well being. In this course we will review theories from anthropology, economics, and biology, and empirical studies to understand the dynamics of household decision making in developing nations. The course will include readings, discussions, and problem sets. Usually offered in spring.
R. Godoy

Also see courses on:

• Management of Natural Resources listed under Environment and Development
• Benefit / Cost Analysis listed under Development Management
• Theories of Development listed under Theories and Models
• Measurement and Inequalities listed under Theory and Models
• Country Development Studies: The Mississippi Delta
• Directed Research: Field Workshop in the Mississippi Delta
  

HUMAN RIGHTS / GENDER

Rights Based Approach to Development (F)
Signature of the instructor required
The notion of a rights based approach to development is increasingly permeating the United Nations, bilateral aid organizations, humanitarian relief groups, and NGO’s. This full semester class provides a thorough grounding in international human rights laws, mechanisms and practices, including the special protections for vulnerable groups such as women, children, indigenous peoples, and ethnic minorities. It will explore in particular depth the human rights to food, health, housing, and education. Usually offered in spring.
M. Green

Rights Based Approach to Development (M)
Signature of the instructor required
This module provides a broad introduction to international human rights laws, mechanisms and practices, including special protections for vulnerable groups and the key debates underpinning the rights-based approach to development and poverty. It will also cover the international and regional institutions that exist to protect human rights. Usually offered in fall.
M. Green

Gender and Development (M)
Signature of the instructor required
Gender, as a social construct, is explored in diverse cultures and societies and for its major influence on the development process. Usually offered in fall.
B. McSweeney, K. Ready

Gender and Globalization (M)
Signature of the instructor required
M. Cristina Espinosa

Gender Analysis in Development Planning (M)
Signature of the instructor required
Examines recent concepts and methods for gender analysis as an integral factor in program planning across cultures. Usually offered in fall.
M.J. Obote

Masculinity and Gender (M)
Signature of the instructor required
Development practitioners are paying increasing attention to masculinity because of a growing awareness that women’s empowerment must be complemented by change in men if it is to be sustained. This course will analyze the gendered relations of power by looking at the dynamic of male identities as a factor in change. Building on courses in gender and development, it will develop an awareness of the main issues involved in the study of men and masculinities as it has developed internationally and in Africa. Usually offered in spring.
M.J. Obote

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THEORY/MODELS

Theory and Analysis of Social Policy (F)
Signature of the instructor required
This seminar develops theoretical perspectives on social policy, social justice and social change, and a framework for analyzing and developing social policies. It identifies major institutional systems which function in any society throughout human evolution and which are key variables of social policy and social change practice. Usually offered in fall.
D. Gil

Theories of Development (M)
Signature of the instructor required
This seminar focuses on the potential advantages and disadvantages of alternative available theories proposed in the industrial and developing worlds as potential guides for explaining and finding solutions to development problems. Usually offered in fall.
A. Seidman

Principles of Law and Development (M)
Signature of the instructor required
Through a primer on law and legal institutions, the seminar examines the use of the legal order to solve problems of poverty, vulnerability and environmental degradation in developing nations. Usually offered in spring.
M. Russelll-Einhorn

The Demographics of Development (M)
Signature of the instructor required
This seminar is a primer on population growth and the socio-economic dynamics of reducing fertility rates. Usually offered in fall.
S. Holcombe

Law and Society: Gender Equality (M)
Signature of the instructor required
The course explores issues of gender equity that arise in different contexts, including in the state's treatment of its citizens; in the workplace; and within the family. Central to the course is the study of laws that impact women's lives. These include civil rights laws as well as laws related to sexual coercion and exploitation of women. Not offered in 2008/2009.
A. Hill

Law and Society: Race and Class (M)
Signature of the instructor required
The course explores race in American society from the framework of civil rights law. Using the case method, it attempts to facilitate a multicultural inquiry into anti-discrimination law by presenting civil rights issues as integrated social problems. Though the cases are organized around the traditional civil rights categories of education and housing, it also offers exploration of emerging areas such as the rights of language minorities and people with disabilities.
A. Hill

Religion and Development (M)
Signature of the instructor required
Drawing on the rich spiritual and religious traditions among students and faculty in the Heller community, this course seeks to understand how religions understand historical change, concepts of justice and rights, causes of poverty, and paradigms for development. Usually offered in spring.
E. Messer

Topics in Development: Culture, Power and Development (M)
Signature of the instructor required
Culture and power are two factors that are always present in development but whose impact is often unaccounted for in our theory and practice. Whether looking at colonialism, gender, tradition or structural adjustment, our cultural and social constructs frame the way development is seen. While those with the most powerful lenses have had a much greater ability to shape development policy, the resistance to their methods has, at times, illuminated more equitable and effective development relationships. This course encourages students to consider the critiques of development that have emerged in recent years from anthropology, cultural and postcolonial studies, and the development field. Usually offered in spring.
K. Ready

HEALTH

World Health (M)
Signature of the instructor required
This seminar is a primer on major diseases and problems of health care in developing nations. Usually offered in spring.
S. Bhalotra

Food Security and Nutrition (M)
Signature of the instructor required
This seminar explores how international and national agencies define and measure food security and nutritional status and set goals for strategic interventions. Usually offered in spring.
R. Lockwood

Topics in Development: HIV/AIDS as a Public Policy Issue (M)
Signature of the instructor required
This seminar will examine HIV/AIDS as a public policy issue in developing countries. Students will be introduced to key perspectives to framing the HIV/AIDS epidemic as a policy issue, including an economics perspective, a social impact perspective, and a rights perspective. Usually offered in spring.
J. Kaufman

COUNTRY AND REGIONAL STUDIES

Each few years, SID begins a study of a country to permit students to delve more deeply into specific development challenges and learn the lessons of various models. These seminars focus on one region of the world or provide comparative perspectives drawn from several regions.

Country Development Studies: The Mississippi Delta (M)
Signature of the Instructor Required
SID is initiating a planning process for capacity building in the Mississippi Delta – the poorest area in the State of Mississippi. This first half-semester seminar will review studies of the Delta and establish a framework for planning. Selected students will be given an opportunity to participate in the proposed second half semester intensive 2 to 3 week planning workshop in the Delta (see below). Usually offered in spring.
J. Raheem, L. Simon and staff

Directed Research: Field Workshop in the Mississippi Delta (M)
Signature of the Instructor Required
Heller in collaboration with local institutions in the Mississippi Delta will conduct an intensive 2 to 3 week planning exercise in situ. Details will be released in the fall.
J. Raheem, L. Simon and staff

Regional Development Studies: TBA (M)
Signature of the instructor required
This seminar will examine the experience of one group of countries at developing joint efforts at development trade, cross-boundary environmental management and conflict resolution. The region of study for this seminar will be announced.
Staff

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DIRECTED READINGS - Staff

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NON-CREDIT MODULES
Communications: Academic and Professional Writing – Staff
Communications: Public Speaking – Staff
Basic Computing – Staff
Library/Electronic Research – Jason Bernard
Grant Writing - Staff
ESL- Staff
 

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