Bridget Quigley: SCC 490

Poverty Solutions
Taking SCC 490: Global Poverty as a really different experience for me my junior year. Up until that point, most of my classes had been pretty large lectures, and the only time I was in a small group was when/if I had recitation. This class however was very small and therefore gave me a lot of opportunities for discussion with the other people in the class. It was also very different because it wasn’t a requirement for COM or any other major, so everyone in the class took it because they wanted to which made for a really neat environment. I also had a lot of opportunities to write and research various third world countries and the cause behind their poverty issues and what is being done to alleviate it. This really helped broaden my understanding of why poverty happens and how each situation is so different, and in reading a lot of Sach’s theories, I’ve come to agree that poverty in Sierra Leone needs to be considered separately from poverty in Brazil. In other words, each country needs to be looked at on its own. Overall the class was fantastic and really helped me understand poverty and activism on a whole new level, in addition to sharpening my research and reporting skills.