Uganda: International Development in East Africa - Understanding Public Management & Public Health Practices

In this unique study abroad experience, the objective is to bring a set of policy and practice issues to life in an applied setting. Specifically, the course offers students knowledge and skills acquisition through executing service learning projects with one of several different organizational partners in Uganda in both the governmental and nonprofit sector. Students will be exposed to a series of dialogues, conversations, and interactions with the grassroots leaders of several distinct communities, with university professors, and with nonprofit and public sector personnel and leaders in Uganda.

This course is designed for students who are interested in understanding and addressing policy related to international development, public management, and public health practices. It is an opportunity to learn about policy and management practices of international development through the lens of East Africa. The course is an immersion in issues through intense classroom time at an African university with educators and practitioners -- as well as applied learning through executing service learning projects. The intent of the course is for students to learn how to improve public policy practice and management by learning about, and from, our colleagues in Africa.

 

Faculty contact: Jamie Van Leeuwen
james.vanleeuwen@ucdenver.edu