Jointly offered with PLCY784. Credit only granted for PLCY488B or PLCY784. Restriction: Must have earned a minimum of 90 credits.

Development is the process by which needy people in fragile societies become self-sufficient people in resilient societies. This process has often been slowed or stopped or even reversed by disease and disaster by epidemics, endemics, famines, wars, earthquakes, floods, and so on. Drawing on many sources, from biology and medicine to history and economics and politics, we will examine these calamities and the developed world's response to them.