The course provides knowledge about main features of the global aid industry, Norwegian aid in perspective, new actors, interventions and partnerships, as well as representation and self-presentation within the development industry.
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Admission requirements
You must have completed at least a one-year introductory course in Development Studies or equivalent courses within social sciences.
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How to apply
International exchange students select courses when applying for exchange.
The application deadline is 15 April.
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Content
The course covers the following themes:
- Main features of the global aid industry: Actors and channels of finance; geographic and thematic destinations of aid; shifting aid paradigms; and critiques of 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 partnerships: Policy coherence; advocacy and transnational activism; and corporate social responsibility.
- Representation and self-presentation: The ways in which main actors in the development enterprise present development challenges and their own interventions; and the debates this gives rise to.
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Course description
For more information about this course, take a look at the course description (student.oslomet.no).
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Costs
There is no semester fee for exchange students.
Questions about this course?
You can contact us by e-mail if you have questions about this course.
