AIPS Logistical Support to innovative Bi-Campus Course Taught Simultaneously in the US and Pakistan

Christopher Candland (Assoc. Professor, Wellesley College) offered a bi-campus course on Human Development in Pakistan, taught at Wellesley College and Fatima Jinnah Women University (FJWU) in Spring 2014.  The first version of the course was offered with AIPS logistical support in Fall 2012. The objective of the course is to encourage students in Pakistan and the United States to better understand and appreciate each other.  Half of the students gathered in Rawalpindi, Punjab; the other half gathered in Wellesley, Massachusetts.  Ms. Adeela Rehman from FJWU’s Department of Gender Studies served as the instructor in Pakistan.  Experienced videographers using high quality live videoconference facilities and multiple cameras and microphones joined the two classrooms for all class sessions.  Students learned about Pakistan’s formative national economic development models, the turn toward human-oriented development measures, the centrality of gender to human development, women’s health, basic education, community development, and political conditions for high human development achievements.  Candland taught two classes from Pakistan.