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Analyzing Projects and Organizations
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This course teaches students how to understand the rationality behind how organizations and their programs behave, and to be comfortable and analytical with a live organization. It thereby builds analytic skills for evaluating programs and projects, organizations, and environments. It draws on the literature of the sociology of organizations, political science, public administration, and historical experience-and is based on both developing-country and developed-country experience.

Subject:
Business and Communication
Political Science
Social Science
Sociology
Material Type:
Full Course
Provider:
MIT
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MIT OpenCourseWare
Author:
Tendler, Judith
Date Added:
09/01/2009
Crafting Research Questions and Qualitative Methodology
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This course covers approaches to research and evaluation in the planning field, for those preparing to write 1st-year doctoral and other research papers. Topics include narrowing down research interests, using quantitative and qualitative techniques complementarily, and interviewing and other fieldwork challenges. The course uses a seminar-type format in which readings, class discussions, and assignments are built around (1) generic themes that run across the research interests and paper topics of students in the class, and (2) lessons about methodology to be learned from the case comparison studies assigned.

Subject:
Arts and Humanities
Literature
Social Science
Material Type:
Full Course
Provider:
MIT
Provider Set:
MIT OpenCourseWare
Author:
Coslovsky, Salo
Tendler, Judith
Date Added:
09/01/2005
Introduction to Planning & Institutional Processes in Developing Countries
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This introductory course helps students learn to pose questions and analyze problems in the field of planning in developing countries. Not arguing for one "right" approach, the course draws on grounded empirical experiences - historical and recent - to help students navigate the way they approach their future work in developing-country governments, NGOs and international organizations.

Subject:
Business and Communication
Cultural Geography
Economics
Political Science
Social Science
Material Type:
Full Course
Provider:
MIT
Provider Set:
MIT OpenCourseWare
Author:
Tendler, Judith
Date Added:
09/01/2003
Targeting the Poor: Local Economic Development in Developing Countries
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This course treats public-sector policies, programs, and projects that attempt to increase employment through development-promoting measures in the economic realm, through support and regulation. It discusses the types of initiatives, tasks, and environments that are most conducive to equitable outcomes, and emphasizes throughout the understandings gained about why certain initiatives work and others don’t.

Subject:
Cultural Geography
Economics
Social Science
Sociology
Material Type:
Full Course
Provider:
MIT
Provider Set:
MIT OpenCourseWare
Author:
Brandt, Karin
Tendler, Judith
Date Added:
02/01/2010