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UC BerkeleyUC Berkeley Global Poverty Minor Grows QuicklyStudents majoring in everything from engineering to English at UC Berkeley are signing up for the campus’s fastest-growing minor, Global Poverty and Practice. The two-year-old minor, offered by the Blum Center for Developing Economies, provides students with the knowledge and experiences necessary to combat global poverty. To back theory with action, students are designing affordable water filters for slum dwellers in Mumbai, advocating for squatters threatened with eviction in Nairobi, promoting gender-equity laws in Sierra Leone and establishing community-owned diabetes clinics in Jordan. The minor is organized around two core courses, two electives and a service-learning project linked to a thesis or senior project in the student’s major field. More than 150 UC Berkeley undergraduates have declared a minor in Global Poverty and Practice, and 60 are due to graduate this May.For more information, visit the Blum Center’s website: http://blumcenter.berkeley.edu/undergraduate-minor-program/. |
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