{"id":2092,"date":"2012-12-29T08:32:23","date_gmt":"2012-12-29T15:32:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/idrnblog\/?p=2092"},"modified":"2012-12-29T08:34:38","modified_gmt":"2012-12-29T15:34:38","slug":"new-course-on-development-practice-and-planning","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/idrnblog\/2012\/12\/29\/new-course-on-development-practice-and-planning\/","title":{"rendered":"New Course on Development Practice and Planning"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A new course is being offered at UBC by The School of Community and Regional Planning. The title is: &#8220;<em><strong>PLAN 572:\u00a0<\/strong><strong>Theory and Practice of Project Planning for Development<\/strong><\/em>&#8220;, and a full description is available <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/idrnblog\/files\/2012\/12\/PLAN572.pdf\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>This course is intended to introduce students to issues <em>theoretical and practical<\/em> that have direct impacts upon project planning and program design in third world contexts.\u00a0Through this course, students are expected to gain familiarity with <em>theoretical<\/em> concepts relevant to development planning, and be able to <em>apply<\/em> them in the analysis and design of planning interventions for social, economic, and environmental betterment.<\/p>\n<p>Some of the topics that will be explored are:\u00a0globalization; development theories and discourses; the role of the state; social contexts; state\u2011community dynamics; participatory planning; the informal sector; bureaucracies and corruption; non\u2011governmental organizations; spatial aspects of social change.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A new course is being offered at UBC by The School of Community and Regional Planning. The title is: &#8220;PLAN 572:\u00a0Theory and Practice of Project Planning for Development&#8220;, and a full description is available here. This course is intended to &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/idrnblog\/2012\/12\/29\/new-course-on-development-practice-and-planning\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13245,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2682],"tags":[647039,2637],"class_list":["post-2092","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-opportunities","tag-development-courses","tag-theory"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/idrnblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2092","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/idrnblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/idrnblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/idrnblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/13245"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/idrnblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2092"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/idrnblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2092\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2096,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/idrnblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2092\/revisions\/2096"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/idrnblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2092"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/idrnblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2092"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/idrnblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2092"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}