Course information

• Objectives

  After completion of the course you will be able to:

  • Distinguish and explain the main discourses and theories on sanitation governance;
  • Identify and analyze how sanitation governance is part of and co-shapes different distributional processes and outcomes;
  • Identify context, purpose, perspective, and arguments of sanitation governance texts (policy texts as well as scientific writings);
  • Become familiar with, and reflexively choose between sanitation governance tools – institutions, technologies, organizations – and models, appreciating which one to use in which contexts and for which purposes.
• Syllabus

  This course covers the following topics:

  • Introduction to sanitation governance
  • Defining the state
  • Shifts in governance
  • Socio-nature
  • Distribution of flood risks
  • Voice and authority
  • Participation
  • Class and income
  • Gender and households
  • The social construction of race and ethnicity
  • Knowledge and expertise
  • Colonization and decolonization
  • The concept of development
  • Many meanings of menstruation
• Delivery method

  Each course in this series consists of video lectures, presentation slides, reading materials, exercises, and assignments. In principle, each video presentation has its own complementary presentation slides. Some parts of the course also include exercises and/or assignments. Please note that this course is free, open access, and does not include guidance, exams, assessment, or certificate. As a rule of thumb, if you spend 8 hours per week following this course, you should be able to complete the curriculum within 18 weeks.

  Instructions on how to use the course materials are available here.

• Organization

  Each course has its own coding system. The code of this course is C 8. Each course consists of units. Each unit has a unique code, for example, U 8.1. In the section ‘Unit 8.1 videos │ …” you can find and watch all video-recorded lectures that belong to this unit. Similarly, in the section ‘Unit 8.1 course materials│ …”  you can download all materials that make this unit (e.g. high-resolution videos, presentation slides, reading materials, exercises, assignments, etc) as a single compressed file (in zip format). Some files may be of considerable size, so you need to assure that your computer has sufficient bandwidth and capacity for downloading.