What is the Workshop in Development Practice?
The Workshop in Development Practice is one of most exciting opportunities within the EPD concentration, and is also open to a limited number of students in the Human Rights Concentration and International Media, Advocacy and Communications specialization. Officially, it is a spring-semester course for second-year master’s degree students, but workshop activities begin in the fall semester through the course on Methods for Development Practice. Through the workshop, students gain practical experience by engaging in on-going cutting-edge development efforts, often involving country fieldwork. Working in teams with a faculty supervisor, students assist a variety of clients on a wide array of assignments in international development. Students take a multidisciplinary approach to their work and learn extensively from each other as well as from the hands-on tasks of the workshop itself. Another key strength of the workshop is that it allows students to explore the intersection of developmen
