2. What are we doing here?
Working on your assignments as we go
Co-creating a new module (and maybe
more – book, website etc), so:
Tell me what works/doesn’t
Say what you want more/less of
Shout if I talk too fast, or you can’t
understand my accent or my jargon
And there are no such things as stupid
questions!
3. Assignment
Change episode you are familiar with
We will develop it over the course of the
weekend
You then write it up as your course
assignment
4. Introductions
Name, country
What do you want to get out of this (i.e.
Why are you giving up a lovely weekend
to study how change happens?)
5. Session Plan: Friday
Introductions and course outline
Lecture: interdisciplinary perspectives
on change
Discussion: what disciplines we have in
the room for this course and what we
are missing?
6. Session Plan: Saturday
Overnight thoughts and feedback
Lecture 2: Active Citizens, Effective
States and Change
Groupwork: Analysing and improving
your case studies
Lecture 3: Understanding power and
Change
Groupwork: Analysing the Egyptian
revolution
Lecture 4: The role of Activism
Groupwork: analysing South Africa’s
Treatment Action Campaign
7. Session Plan: Sunday (provisional)
Overnight thoughts and feedback
Lecture 5: INGOs and Advocacy
Groupwork: Design a pitch to the Gates
Foundation for an anti-tobacco
campaign
Lecture 6: The Changing World and
Foreign Aid
Groupwork: improving the aid system
Groupwork: Go back to your pre-course
case study and decide what still needs
to be done