This course is designed to foster a dynamic conversation between past and present. We will address two overarching questions throughout the semester: How can study of the past expand our imaginative capacity to alleviate poverty in our own time? And what new historical questions do contemporary poverty issues demand that we ask?
To that end, you will work in small teams with a variety of research projects, policy organizations, and community anti-poverty initiative to see first-hand how knowledge about poverty is created, how that knowledge is translated into public policy, and how shapes and is shaped by anti-poverty work at the grassroots. We expect that you will devote at least 5 hours per week to these group assignments.
To that end, you will work in small teams with a variety of research projects, policy organizations, and community anti-poverty initiative to see first-hand how knowledge about poverty is created, how that knowledge is translated into public policy, and how shapes and is shaped by anti-poverty work at the grassroots. We expect that you will devote at least 5 hours per week to these group assignments.