4 courses with the subject GDEV, each shown exactly as we captured it from the college's catalog, with every element we hold. Where the wording looks broken, that is our reading of the catalog, not the college's text.
GDEV 525Understanding Poverty and Development3
In a world marked by inequalities and disparities, addressing poverty effectively stands as a fundamental challenge for global development efforts. This course, ""Understanding Poverty,"" delves into the holistic nature of poverty taking into account faith, history, macroeconomics, politics and anthropology. This course will journey through the feedback and learning from development and humanitarian actors in both the faith-based and secular spaces, exploring their strategies and impact in poverty alleviation and sustainable development. The course is structured to provide students with a comprehensive understanding of poverty as a complex and evolving phenomenon, while critically assessing the role of implementing actors (NGOs, Government agencies, Faith Based Organizations, etc). Through an interdisciplinary approach, students will engage with systematic theology, theoretical frameworks, and empirical case studies, enabling them to grasp the intricacies of poverty and contribute to effective poverty alleviation strategies.
GDEV 535Leadership, Politics and Multiparty Collaboration3
International Development needs more effective leaders, communicators, negotiators, and problem solvers at all levels from the local community to the global stage, within all types of organizations from non-profits to Fortune 100 companies. We need leaders who draw on their faith to ensure and promote justice and reason. Global issues and challenges, from economic recessions and inequalities to armed conflicts, environmental degradation, religious and cultural discord, migration and more, have resulted in a growing range of actors and stakeholders at the global, national and local levels that are engaged in development activities. Joint engagements and shared solutions are increasingly in demand and so are professionals with the knowledge and skills to engage effectively in creating mutually beneficial solutions and ways forward within an increasingly polarized world. What is justice in these situations? How does one reason and collaborate across such a diversity of interests? The Leadership, Politics and Multi-Party Collaboration course is an interdisciplinary and multi-dimensional course pulling from development studies, political science, economics, history, sociology, as well as culture and leadership studies. It is designed to deepen your understanding of and engagement with the wide variety of actors in the International Development sphere and equip you with both the theoretical and practical knowledge you need to become more effective in collaborating with these actors, to pull from your faith to define justice and reason amongst multiple often divergent ideas and plans. It will also expand students thinking on how and where and with which type of organizations they can build careers that make a positive impact in our world.
GDEV 635Designing, Monitoring and Measuring for Social Impact3
Are you sure your program works? What impact are you having? How do you know? These questions are some that development leaders must answer, constantly, to donors, partners, governments, their boards, and for internal program efficacy. In this course, students will learn about how organizations can design and implement programs that align with their theory of change and measure to understand if their programs are achieving their intended outcomes.
This course will examine the leading issues related to capital flows between the developed and developing worlds. It will cover the various types of official and private finance as well as the institutions and policies designed to manage and promote these flows. It begins by considering development assistance from both the recipient and donor perspectives, as well as the changing roles of the IMF and the multilateral development banks. In the second half, it explores the key issues in debt, private investment and the financial sector.
