Introduction to Planning and Institutional Processes in Developing Countries
As taught in: Fall 2005
A Peace Corps volunteer works with villagers to maintain sanitation facilities in South Africa. (Image courtesy of the Peace Corps.)
Instructors:
Prof. Bishwapriya Sanyal
MIT Course Number:
11.701
Level:
Course Description
This introductory course is structured to cultivate the key sensibilities necessary for effective planning practice in newly industrializing countries. The word "sensibility" refers to an awareness of key developmental issues, interdependent causalities, and anticipated as well as unanticipated consequences of social action which mark most planning efforts. In cultivating such sensibilities, this course will use examples from varying institutional settings, ranging from the local to the international levels, and probe how the particularities of each setting call for an awareness of particular institutional opportunities and constraints that planners need to account for when devising planning strategies.
