Introduction to the Development Enterprise (UTVB3003)

You must have completed at least a one-year introductory course in Development Studies or equivalent courses within social sciences.

International exchange students select courses when applying for exchange.

The application deadline is 15 April.

The course covers the following themes:

• Main features of the global aid industry: Actors and channels of finance; geographic and thematic destinations of aid; paradigms in and major debates about aid. 
• Norwegian aid in perspective: Features of public development policy from the 1980s and up to the present, in comparative perspective; the approach and work of select non-governmental organisations.
• New actors, interventions and partnership types: Developing country donors; policy coherence and coordination including SDGs; advocacy and transnational activism; and corporate social responsibility. 
• 21st century trends: «Securitization», «environmentalization» and «commercification» of aid; effectiveness, evaluability and result based management in aid. 
• The politics of representation: The ways in which main actors in the development enterprise present development challenges; their own work and contributions; and the debates this gives rise to.

For more information about this course, take a look at the course description (student.oslomet.no).

There is no semester fee for exchange students.