Isenberg School of Management 590P - Poverty
Spring
2026
01
3.00
Thomas Brashear-Alejandro
TH 4:00PM 6:30PM
UMass Amherst
82626
School of Management 125
brashear@isenberg.umass.edu
This course presents poverty as a challenge to education with management as a common element of solutions to address poverty. The course is designed to explore the development, persistence, and broad range of impacts of poverty across multiple disciplines. The contents cover poverty research and practices, management, criminal justice, psychology, sociology, marketing, economics, education, and families, among others. Students will use this multidisciplinary perspective to develop a transdisciplinary research proposal to develop solutions to mitigate and eliminate the challenges of poverty.
Open to Seniors, Juniors & Sophomores only. This class counts as an honors credit.