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Course Criteria
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3.00 Credits
In this course, you will learn abut Malawi's (a) history, ethnic groups, social dynamics, and culture; (b) governance, politics, and civic processes; (c) socio-economic resources, activities, opportunities, and challenges; and (d) the poverty-affluence divide in the country. A main objective is to expose you to social and cultural processes, challenges, and life-improving opportunities for people in the poorest countries using Malawi as a case for such an analysis.
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The course will expose you to food production, nutrient content, storage, processing and consumption in the communities served by Pamoza International. You will analyze how food production, storage, processing and consumption influence villagers' nutritional status emphasizing that good nutrition is about taking care of the body, God's temple. You will assess the nutrient contents of the foods commonly consumed in the communities as well as the nutritional status of members of a sample of households seeking to relate food consumption to nutritional status. Since nutritional status is also heavily influenced by the work people are involved in, you will analyze the work rural Malawians engage in with the objective of understanding how this work may be influencing their nutritional status. You will participate in some of this work to experience how demanding the work is.
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The course explores rural livelihoods' assets/resources, mediating processes, and vulnerability contexts zeroing in on how government policy and the pervasive globalization are changing these livelihoods and with what consequences on the well-being of rural people. Apart from analyzing key readings, you will observe and document how people in rural settings make a living and what changes the people have experienced in their making of a living. This will be done through interviews of key informants. Through these interviews, you will learn about challenges rural people confront in pursuing their livelihoods, the changes in the making of livelihoods that rural people are experiencing, and the ramifications of these changes on rural people's well-being.
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3.00 Credits
This course uses biblical, theological, and philosophical frameworks to examine the complexities of social justice in the Malawi society. Principles of social justice are used to explore issues of fairness in the provision of educational, healthcare, economic, criminal justice, and agricultural services to the Malawi population across ethnic, gender, and class (poor, middle, and upper) social categories and across the rural-urban divides. Emphasis is on the student understanding the biblical, theological, philosophical, and political frameworks that shape the fair provision of these services across these population groups in Malawi.
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Explores how people socially construct their reality, values, and worldviews through socialization. It also examines group processes to understand how socialization influences peopleprocesses.
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3.00 Credits
Draws upon theories of social justice and Christian thought to explore social justice shortfalls and opportunities in social institutions such as religion, economy, politics, education, and family. Of particular interest is how social justice has been compromised and how it could be upheld in these institutions.
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3.00 Credits
Examines the rise, impact, and fate of collective behaviors. Included are collective behaviors such as protest demonstrations, riots, panics, and mass suicides, as well as social movements such as civil rights, welfare rights, liberation, and workers movements.
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Covers historical background and cultural comparisons of families, premarital and marital behavior, and family disorganization and reorganization.
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Addresses the nature of relationships between the privileged and underprivileged in American society. A variety of groupsreligious, gender, and age groupsin terms of their socio-political heritage, lifestyles, social identities, and social circumstances.
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3.00 Credits
Examines the unequal and stratified distribution of wealth, income, social power and life chances in society, focusing on how class, race/ethnicity, and gender frame these uniquely and in interlocking ways.
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