OSPCPTWN 24: Targeted Research Project in Community health and Development
Two-quarter sequence for students engaging in Cape Town-sponsored community based research. Students undertake substantive community health or development investigations in collaboration with the Stanford Centre¿s community partners: Western Cape NGOs or government agencies, or community -based organizations or groups. Projects designed to build knowledge and skills for students and to respond to needs of Centre partners in the community. Winter Quarter focus on research methods; Spring Quarter focus on implementation and research.
Terms: not given this year
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Units: 3-5
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Repeatable for credit
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Grading: Letter or Credit/No Credit
OSPCPTWN 24A: Targeted Research Project in Community Health and Development
Two-quarter sequence for students engaging in Cape Town-sponsored community based research. Introduction to approaches, methods and critical issues of partnership-based, community-engaged research and to the community-based research partners. Qualitative data gathering and analysis methods in community-based research; effective collaboration with community partners and data sources; race and privilege in community-based research. Preparation of research proposals and plans for research carried out during spring quarter through
OSPCPTWN 24B.
Terms: Win
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Units: 3
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Grading: Letter (ABCD/NP)
Instructors:
Stanton, T. (PI)
OSPCPTWN 24B: Targeted Research Project in Community Health and Development
Two-quarter sequence for students engaging in Cape Town-sponsored community-based research. Substantive community health or development investigations in collaboration with the Stanford Centre's community partners: Western Cape NGOs or government agencies, or community-based organizations or groups. Students' research supported through methods workshops, sharing of progress and problems, and data and findings presentations. Prerequisite:
OSPCPTWN 24A.
Terms: Spr
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Units: 5
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Grading: Letter (ABCD/NP)
Instructors:
Stanton, T. (PI)
OSPCPTWN 25: Independent Study of South African Built Environment, Economy, and Institutions
Students select from independent study topics such as: Political Economics of Informal Urban Settlements; Infrastructure Delivery in Developing Countries; the Unique Challenges of Marine Construction; Role of Students in the Anti-Apartheid Movement during the Late 1060s; Documenting Vanishing African Music and Dance Traditions; South African Fiction, Theater and Poetry; the History of Ostrich Ranching in South Africa.
Terms: not given this year
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Units: 1-4
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Grading: Letter or Credit/No Credit
OSPCPTWN 26: Managing Global Projects
Challenges associated with planning and managing both commercial and governmental/non-profit global projects; theory, methods, and tools to enhance global project outcomes. Student teams model and simulate cross-cultural teams engaged in global projects. Opportunities to participate in research in the Collaboratory for Research on Global Projects involving faculty from Stanford departments and schools; see
http://crgp.stanford.edu.
Terms: not given this year
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Units: 3-4
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Grading: Letter (ABCD/NP)
OSPCPTWN 27: Service Learning Practice
Prerequisite:
OSPCPTWN 20 or permission of instructor
Terms: not given this year
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Units: 3
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Grading: Letter or Credit/No Credit
OSPCPTWN 31: Theory and Politics of Foreign Aid
Political economy approach to foreign aid. Context of debate on development: differences between developed and less developed countries, concept of poverty, how to measure development. History of foreign aid; main actors and characteristics of official development assistance. Theoretical and empirical impact of aid with regard to economic growth and governance. Benefits and problems associated with aid.
Terms: Spr
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Units: 3
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UG Reqs: GER:ECGlobalCom
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Grading: Letter (ABCD/NP)
Instructors:
Klingebiel, S. (PI)
OSPCPTWN 32: Learning, Development, and Social Change: Service Learning in the Contemporary South African Contex-
Adult learning and its role in community social action; development; service learning. Micro contexts of people's daily lives and experiences in the context of an emergent democracy; understanding possibilities of community action and mobilisation for social change. Service in a historically marginalised community near Cape Town to understand realities of everyday life in informal settlements, to engage with education in a developmental context, and to gain insight into sociopolitical factors that shape social action and learning.
Terms: Win, Spr
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Units: 5
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UG Reqs: GER:DBSocSci, GER:ECGlobalCom
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Grading: Letter (ABCD/NP)
Instructors:
McMillan, J. (PI)
OSPCPTWN 33: From Apartheid to Democracy: Namibia and South Africa
Comparison of the transition from apartheid to democracy in Namibia and South Africa. Focus on peaceful process involving negotiated settlement in South Africa. Significance of democracy in Namibia post 1990 and in South Africa post 1994; South Africa's truth and reconciliation commission and post-1994 economic policy.
Terms: Spr
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Units: 4
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UG Reqs: GER:ECGlobalCom
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Grading: Letter (ABCD/NP)
Instructors:
Saunders, C. (PI)
OSPCPTWN 34: The Effect of HIV/AIDS on the Fate of Vulnerable Populations in Sub-Saharan Africa
Current status of children made vulnerable by HIV/AIDS in sub Saharan Africa. Scope and characteristics of the HIV pandemic, and how it impacts the larger society, communities, and the extended family. Fate of children with a mother diagnosed with HIV; issues around stigma of testing, and treatment. Statistics of epidemic in Sub-Saharan Africa; response of communities, governments, and NGOs; impact of programs designed to address needs of vulnerable populations. Consequences of grief and trauma, as well as malnutrition and starvation, on the well being of vulnerable children.
Terms: not given this year
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Units: 4
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Grading: Letter (ABCD/NP)