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NEW GRADUATE COURSE PROPOSAL FORM

Subject: DEVS

(max.

4

chars)

Catalog Number: 801-5

-~------

Course Title: Issues, Concepts

&

Cases in Development & Sustainability

(max. 80 char.)

Short Title

(appears on transcripts etc.)

Issues in Development

(max.

25

char.)

Course Description for Calendar:

(append a course outline as a separate document)

A

multidisciplinary survey of the issues that confront scholars and practitioners in development and

sustainability, the major theories and concepts, and the methods used to analyze and interpret data, with a focus

on historical and contemporary case studies.

Units:

------

5

A

vailable

o

Course

Lecture

Components:

(select

~Seminar

all

thai

apply)

DLaboratory

DPracticum

Prerequisites:

(if

a1l}~

Must be enrolled in a graduate program at SFU

Campus at which course will be offered:

Burnaby

-----~--------------------------------

Estimated Enrolment:

.-..:.~----

15

The term course will f11st be offered:

Fall 2010

Frequency of course offering:

Annually

Grading Basis: [2]Graded

Justification:

DSatisfactoryfUnsatisfactory DIn Progress/Complete

This is the core course for the Graduate Certificate in Development

&

Sustain ability (formerly Development

Studies). The course has been successfully offered annually since 2005 as a selected topics course

(in

CMNS

&

POL), and a total of 52 graduate students (masters

&

doctorate) have taken the course to date. This proposal

formalizes

the

course.

Resources:

Faculty member(s) who will normally teach this course:

(append in/ormation about tlreir competency to teach the course)

Robert Anderson

&

James Busumtwi-Sam

Number

Additional

Additional

of

space

specialized

additional

required

faculty

equ

in

ipment

order

members

requ

to

offer

ired

required

this

in

order

course:

in

order

to

offer

(append

to

offer

this

details)

course:

this

course:

------------------------

None

(append

-----------------

None

details)

None

Additional Library resources required:

(append details)

Annually $

----------

0

One-time $

---------

0

If

additional resources are required to offer this course, the department propos;1Ig the course should be prepared to provide

in/ormation

on the source(s) o/those additional resources.

Upon approval o/the course proposal. the Dean o/Graduate Studies office will consult with the departmenl or school regarding

other course attributes

that

may

be required to enable the proper entry o/the new course in the student record system.

SIMON

FRASER

UNIVERSITY

SENATE GRADUATE STUDIES COMMITTEE FOAM

212

DEVS 801 CRS PRoP

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Program in

Development and Sustainability

DEVS 801 Course Outline

Course Number:

DEVS 801

Course Title:

Issues, Concepts and Cases in Development

&

Sustainability

Credits: 5

credits

Instructor:

R.

Anderson/J. Busumtwi-Sam

Instructor Contact Info: randerso@sfu.ca (ph. 24265); jbusumtw@sfu.ca (ph. 24346)

Course Description:

This is the core course for the Graduate Certificate in Development and Sustainability.

The course provides a multidisciplinary survey

of the issues that confront scholars and

practitioners

in development It provides a survey of the major theories and concepts that

illuminate the historic tensions between development and sustainability, and the methods used

to analyze and interpret that relationship, focusing on the examination of historical and

contemporary case studies in various fields. Emphasis is on

student articulation of their

interests in their research projects, and discussion

of the relation between specific fields and

techniques

of research and the wider and comparative scope of development studies. The goal is

to give students a broad understanding

of the major concepts, frameworks and issues that have

shaped development and sustainability practices over the

past 50 years.

There are no course

prerequisites and the course does not assume any prior know/edge of specific theories, approaches,

or

methods.

The course is designed in such a way that all graduate students of development will

benefit, irrespective

of their disciplinary backgrounds ..

Pre-requisite(s):

Must be enrolled in a graduate program at SFU.

Grading Breakdown:

Seminar Participation

1

st

issues

&

concepts review

2nd

review

Project proposal

Presentation

&

Research Paper

Texts

10%

15%

15%

15%

45%

Weekly required readings are in a custom courseware book

and/or on short-term reserve in the library.

To be Offered:

Fall 2010

January 2010