This fall it will be 'Resources: Blessing or Curse?"' After that, students will be plunged into a "completely integrated curriculum".
Are natural resources a blessing or a curse?
Many of the vast regions they encountered were well watered, covered by rich, exploitable forests and productive soils; underlain by considerable mineral resources; and blessed with a climate tolerable to Europeans.
"In Russia, our natural resources are our blessing and our tragedy," Grigory A. Yavlinsky, leader of the liberal Yabloko political party, said at an energy conference this fall.
Inderwildi, a Senior Policy Fellow at Oxford, said: "Unconventional fossil fuel resources are a blessing at the moment as cheap fuel will support the global economic recovery.
The Episcopal Church approved the development of "theological and liturgical resources" for the blessing of same-sex relationships at its 2009 convention, citing "changing circumstances in the United States and other nations".
"We agreed that oil, gas and mining companies should report what they pay to governments, and that governments should publish what they receive, so that natural resources are a blessing and not a curse," said Mr Cameron.
California producer Delroy Edwards and his label L.A. Club Resource have been incredibly blessed to do multiple releases with Chicago house legend Gene Hunt.
As one Western official in the capital, Abuja, put it in November: "The oil minister is Jonathan's ATM". Nigeria is a textbook example of the "resource curse". It is blessed with vast mineral and oil wealth, but government officials have diverted much of those riches to their own pockets.
Sierra Leone farmers see rice genetic resources as an "ancestral blessing" (Richards 1996), while complex rituals surround the cultivation of O. glaberrima in Eastern Ghana (Brydon 1981).
