ECON 288 - Supervised Study Abroad

Credits: 4
Planned Offering: Spring

Prerequisites: ECON 101 and 102, instructor consent, and other prerequisites as specified by the instructor(s). For advanced students, the course covers a topic of current interest for which foreign travel provides a unique opportunity for significantly greater understanding. Emphasis and location changes from year to year and is announced each year, well in advance of registration. Likely destinations are Europe, Latin America, Africa, or Asia. This course may not be repeated.

Spring 2015 topic:

ECON 288-01: African Economic Development (4). Prerequisite: Instructor consent. This course introduces issues in African economic development, with an emphasis on both contemporary and historical perspectives. Course participants discuss economic and political institutions and social change in contemporary Africa, and historical patterns of economic and political development, with a strong emphasis on Ghana as our central case study. We emphasize concerns about public action and human capability and, in doing so, explore links to history, sociology, anthropology, and religion. Blunch. Spring 2015 and every third year.