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Local and Regional Economic Development

90-743

Units: 6

Description

This course focuses on both the concepts and the techniques of economic development, applied at the local and regional scale. Students will engage in discussion around issues common to the field — including housing affordability, workforce development, industry diversity, transportation infrastructure, and social and cultural institutions — and use project work to explore specific data sources and analytical techniques. Altogether this course will help students to understand what it means to be a practitioner of economic development, while simultaneously thinking more critically about their own communities and the processes that shape them.

The course will primarily focus on data, communities, and policies in the United States but will occasionally also discuss relevant international content, and students are eagerly encouraged to bring any experience they have from outside of the U.S. to class discussions.