3 - Structure and schedule

3.1 Weekly schedule

This is how the general structure of a week looks like:

Activity	Deadline	Description
Readings topic covered	Before introduction asynchronous session	We will cover three topics per week
Asynchronous session	Monday and Wednesday	Videos will be posted by 9 am on the day of the session¹
Syncrhonous session	Tuesday and Thursday 3-4:15 pm	Prepare for the activities
Seminar questions	Thursday 7 pm	Answer the seminar questions of every topic covered during the week
Seminar feedback	Friday 3 pm	You need to provide feedback to at least 2 of your peers here
Finish activity	Friday 4:15 pm	In case you (and your teammates) did not finish an activity, you have until this time to finish it.

Here is a tentative calendar of the topics that we will cover during the course:

Week	Topic
1	Introduction
1	What is development?
1	Choose your team and topic for the final project
2	Development Theories
2	Poverty and Poverty Traps
2	History and development: Pre-colonial Africa and trade of enslaved persons
2	Informal check-up final project: Book an appointment with me
3	History and development: Colonization period
3	History and development: After independence
3	Conflict and development
4	Politics and development
4	The role of institutions
4	Informal check-up final project: Book an appointment with me
4	Assessment 1: 50-hour assessment: Wednesday 3 pm- Friday 5 pm
5	Structuring the economy: Agriculture
5	Structuring the economy: Industrial policy
5	International trade
6	Foreign aid
6	The rural-urban divide and migration
6	Micro topics: public finance and financial development
7	Tentative: Ethnicity, culture and development
7	Assessment 2: 50-hour assessment: Tuesday 3 pm- Thursday 5 pm
7	Analysis paper due by Friday, Oct. 23rd- 7 pm

During week 1, we will have a syncrhonous session on Wednesday for the introduction. There will be a video posted as well, with information on the first topic↩︎