Through a combination of lectures, guest talks, readings, and case studies, we will learn about the history and competing theories of international development, globalization, and foreign aid; major government, nongovernment, and multilateral actors in development; emerging models of development (social entrepreneurship, microfinance, risk capital approaches); classic diffusion of technology models that derive from anthropology, sociology, psychology, geography and migration studies; and the economic history that trace barriers to the use of innovations. This course will specifically focus on the impact on innovation as it applies to rural agricultural development, humanitarian engineering, and WASH.