GDEV 5502

Dev in Action: Spring Break Faculty-Led Study Trip

Course Description

Course information provided by the 2025-2026 Catalog.

This course is the shell course for the spring courses that includes a faculty-led Spring Break practicum within the Global Development department. In these courses, students spend 10 class sessions gaining familiarity with a particular global development challenge (i.e., hunger & sustainable food production, inequality across the life course, environmental challenges & solutions, etc.) and a particular geographic context through readings, lectures, and in-class discussions. The course continues during an intensive Spring-break field study trip, and concludes with post-fieldwork analysis, reflection, and follow-up during the last 5 weeks of the semester.

Enrollment Priority Enrollment preference given to: Global Development majors. If the program is jointly run with another department (i.e. PLSCI) each department will hold half of the seats for their students during pre-enrollment.

Fees Course fee, TBA. Course fee varies based on trip/location. Each section has a program fee that covers travel, lodging, and meals, and Global Development students may be eligible for needs-based financial support from the GDEV department (see individual section notes for more details). The tuition costs are all included in the Spring term.

Last 1 Terms Offered 2025SP

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