Lead Faculty of the Collaborative Specialization
University of Toronto Scarborough
Participating Degree Programs
Anthropology — MA, MSc
Environmental Science — MEnvSc
Geography — MA
Political Science — MA
Public Health Sciences — MPH
Social Justice Education — MA, MEd
Sociology — MA
Women and Gender Studies — MA
Supporting Unit
Centre for Critical Development Studies
Overview
The Collaborative Specialization in Development Policy and Power is designed to provide master's students with a critical and historicized understanding of the nature of some of the main policy debates within the field of international development. These include: power dynamics and their shifts over time within particular development policy domains at the global, national, and local levels of analysis; the role of the power struggles around development policy making in the processes of program design and implementation; and the ways in which these power struggles shape the institutionalization of policies that are equitable and social justice oriented.
In addition to examining contestations around the development field’s major historical and theoretical threads, students will be immersed in thematic discussions around development policy fields such as: trade, financialization, and illicit financial flows; agriculture and land struggles; political ecology and extra-activism; the politics of sustainability and environmental survival; health governance and health inequities; displacement, immigration, and citizenship; foreign aid and South-South cooperation; indigenous, racial justice, and gender equity struggles; political economy of knowledge production; commodity booms, poverty reduction, and the exercise of state power; and neoliberal globalization and corporate power, and associated resistance and popular mobilization, writ large.
The graduate programs listed above participate in the Collaborative Specialization in Development Policy and Power at the University of Toronto. The collaborating graduate units contribute courses and provide facilities, support, and supervision for master's-level research and practicum placements.
Upon successful completion of the master's degree requirements of the participating home graduate unit and the collaborative specialization, students will receive the notation “Completed Collaborative Specialization in Development Policy and Power” on their transcript.
Contact and Address
Centre for Critical Development Studies: www.utsc.utoronto.ca/ccds
Development Policy and Power: ccdscsutoronto.wixsite.com/ccds
Email: gds-cs-ma@utsc.utoronto.ca
Telephone: (416) 287-7214
Collaborative Specialization in Development Policy and Power
Centre for Critical Development Studies
University of Toronto Scarborough
1265 Military Trail
Toronto, Ontario M1C 1A4
Canada