Preparatory assignment

Dear student,

Welcome  to  the  International  Summer  School  2018

The International Development Studies course is work-intensive, and your work starts prior to coming to Norway. Your fellow students come from all over the world, and an important part of the course is sharing your different experiences. In the first week of the course you will present the poverty problems of your country at a mandatory 3-day trip to the Student Cottage in the forest north of Oslo. You will have only 15 minutes for your presentation. You should prepare for this before you come to Oslo.

Throughout the course you will be working in groups according to selected themes. The themes will be chosen in the first week by all the students in the course and presented for debate in the next to last week. Thereafter each group shall finalise a paper on their theme (maximum 20 pages). It is useful before you come here for you to reflect upon the theme that you will suggest for group work, and to bring some material that can be used for the group paper.

A detailed course schedule will be handed out on the first day of class.

We wish you good luck with you preparation and look forward to meet you this summer.

Your sincerely,

Anders Iversen 
Course leader  
a.b.iversen@sv.uio.no                                                                                                    

Apabeloi Mbape 
Course assistant
apambape@yahoo.com