Course Description
Global Poverty and Inequality, UPPP 115
The course provides an introduction to the theory and practice of poverty, in the US and globally, with a special focus on exploring its relationship to inequality. Students will consider and discuss poverty and inequality from multiple perspectives, examining case studies, broad trends, and empirical evidence. The course will help prepare students to critically analyze complex issues and assess competing programs and policies. It also serves as the gateway to other courses and programs focused on poverty.
Key Information
Credit: 4 quarter units /
2.67 semester units credit
UC Irvine, Planning, Policy, and Design
Course Credit:
Upon successful completion, all online courses offered through cross-enrollment provide UC unit credit. Some courses are approved for GE, major preparation and/or, major credit or can be used as a substitute for a course at your campus.If "unit credit" is listed by your campus, consult your department, academic adviser or Student Affairs division to inquire about the petition process for more than unit credit for the course.
UC Berkeley:
Unit Credit
UC Davis:
General Education: SS, WC
UC Irvine:
General Education: II - Science and Technology
UC Los Angeles:
Major Requirement: IDS Major / UD elective for Sociology BA
UC Merced:
Upper Division Unit Credit (see your Academic Advisor)
UC Riverside:
General Education: Elective units
UC San Diego:
General Education: Revelle - 1 course towards Social Science (no major overlap); TMC 1 course toward upper division disciplinary breadth if noncontiguous to major, Seventh - 1 course towards Alternatives - Social Science; Muir: 1 course in a Social Sciences theme in "Culture, Society and Social Justice"
Major Requirement: Global Health Major: Medical Humanities Elective
Global Health Minor: Elective
Global Health Departmental Limit of 2 online courses per student in the Major, 1 online course per student in the Minor
UC San Francisco:
Unit Credit
UC Santa Barbara:
General Education: This course will apply to Area D automatically upon completion
UC Santa Cruz:
Major Requirement: Approved as an elective substitution for Sociology; May be used to satisfy a Community Studies topical requirement, limit one outside course taken to meet major requirements per student.
Prerequisites
None
More About The Course
This course is unlike any course you’ve ever taken or likely will take during your undergraduate years. Here’s a few reasons. We’ve brought together leading thinkers from campuses across the UC system. These experts are examining poverty and inequality from a wide range of disciplines. Each week we’ll focus on a new theme, led by a different instructor. You’ll get a chance to converse with them in our weekly live sessions. Some weeks we’ll take you on a virtual field trip so you can see how the issues we’re been examining apply to real-world settings. Back in the virtual classroom, we’ll meet for weekly live discussion sections, where you’ll get a chance to discuss and debate these critical issues with your fellow students.
We’ve designed the class assignments to give you choices. You’ll be able to decide which of the assignments you’ll pursue based on your own interests and your future plans as they relate to the course topics. Are you an engineering student? Design a solution that will can help people with solving basic human needs like clean water. Are you a public health major? How can we bring resources from the public health community to address poverty? Business major? What role do multi-national companies have in addressing the human needs of the planet?
Course Creators
Richard Matthew
Richard A. Matthew (PhD Princeton) is Associate Dean for International Programs; Professor of Planning, Policy and Design; Director of the UCI Blum Center (http://blumcenter.uci.edu/); Director of the Center for Unconventional Security Affairs (www.cusa.uci.edu); and co-Principal Investigator of the FloodRISE Project (http://floodrise.uci.edu), all at the University of California at Irvine. He is also a member of the United Nations Expert Group on Environment, Conflict and Peacebuilding, and has served on several UN peacebuilding missions, including two he led in Sierra Leone. He has over 170 publications, including 12 books.
Richard A. Matthew (PhD Princeton) is Associate Dean for International Programs; Professor of Planning, Policy and Design; Director of the UCI Blum Center ( http://blumcenter.uci.edu/ ); Director of the Center for Unconventional Security Affairs ( www.cusa.uci.edu ); and co-Principal Investigator of the FloodRISE Project ( http://floodrise.uci.edu ), all at the University of California at ...Richard A. Matthew (PhD Princeton) is Associate Dean for International Programs; Professor of Planning, Policy and Design; Director of the UCI Blum Center (http://blumcenter.uci.edu/); Director of the Center for Unconventional Security Affairs (www.cusa.uci.edu); and co-Principal Investigator of the FloodRISE Project (http://floodrise.uci.edu), all at the University of California at Irvine. He is also a member of the United Nations Expert Group on Environment, Conflict and Peacebuilding, and has served on several UN peacebuilding missions, including two he led in Sierra Leone. He has over 170 publications, including 12 books.
