Conference panels, workshops, and special plenary sessions are conducted by participants from developing nations in Africa, Asia, the Caribbean, Latin America, and from third world communities in Diaspora in North America and Europe.
Attendance is required all three days of the conference and at the pre-conference orientation.
The conference registration fee will be billed to you directly through the Student Accounts Office. Following the conference, students must complete a written research project that demonstrates their understanding of international development and issues affecting third world communities. This course fulfills the undergraduate general education multicultural requirement, and may be used as a general education elective in social science, or in fulfillment of major or minor requirements in sociology. While the approaches are diverse, they all recognize that there is a common set of problems that make the Third World different from the industrially developed nations. In addition, third world communities located in the United States and elsewhere in the market economies also demand attention, as these groups experience similar problems.