Urban Poverty and Development

WYP2623H
Summary

Reviews the challenges faced by urban development facilitators today. Engages urbanisation and migration across the planet (especially the global South), the data on urban poverty, and today's blurring of rural and urban into a continuous, dynamic rural-urban continuum. Looks at the role of NGOs, churches and other partners in working with the urban poor, and reviews a range of urban community-based development approaches. Also considers the five types of urban communities, the new physics

Course Syllabus
Session Offered
Winter 2021
Day
Wed
Time
03:00 pm ~ 05:00 pm
Schedule Notes

Please note that all Winter courses have been postponed from the week of Jan. 4 to the week beginning Jan. 11. You can find more information in the letter from the principal at the following link: https://www.wycliffecollege.ca/about/news-media/delay-start-winter-term

Discipline
Pastoral Theology
Online
No
Instructor
Teaching Method
Lectures
Practicum
Remote Access
Credits
1