International Development Studies
Foundation Courses, Development Core, Methods Core and Concentration Electives
Candidates for the Master of Arts from the Center for International Studies with a concentration in International Development Studies must complete a sequence of required and elective core courses, as well as a series of courses in one of the three disciplinary concentrations.
Core courses and disciplinary concentration courses are to be combined so as to provide the most appropriate set of intellectual and professional reference points for the student's examination of the development process. Each program/course of study must be approved in advance by your program advisor, normally the Program Director.
Each candidate must complete a minimum of 70 credit hours of coursework with an accumulated grade point average of 3.0 (out of 4.00) and submit a capstone project - either M.A. thesis, a grant proposal or a comprehensive exam.
Foundation Courses (15 credit hours)
All students in the International Development Program are required to take the following foundation courses:
GEOG 529 World Economic Geography - 5 credits (first quarter)
INST 610B Pro-seminar: Fundamentals of Development - 5 credits (first quarter only)
INST 690 Colloquium in Development – 5 credits (1 credit colloquium class each quarter after the first quarter).
Methods Core (minimum 10 credit hours)
Emphasis will be placed on the acquisition of analytical skills and research and planning methodologies through selected courses in order to allow the student to effectively and critically address the complexity of problems facing developing countries. A minimum of 10 credit hours will be selected from Methods Courses.
Dept., Course #, Title, Credits
ANTH 556 Seminar in Methodology and Field Research
ECON 502 SAS for Data Analysis 5
ECON 503 Microeconomics 5
ECON 504 Macroeconomics 5
EDRE 501 Introduction to Research Methods 5
GEOG 566 Remote Sensing 5*
GEOG 570 GIS Applications 5
GEOG 571 Quantitative Methods 5
GEOG 578 Principles of GIS 5
POLS 582 Quantitative Political Analysis 5
PSY 520 Elementary Statistics 5
SOCI 654 Social Research Methods 5
TCOM 602 Quantitative Research 5
TCOM 603 Qualitative Research 5
INCO 701 Research Designs in Communication 5
Others as offered
*Remote Sensing may count as a methods course for students pursuing the Environment and Development concentration in order to meet the requirements for a GIS certificate.
Development Core (minimum 15 credit hours)
Dept., Course #, Title, Credits
AAS 530 Social Theories of Underdevelopment 5
ANTH 571 Ethnology 5
ECON550 Economics of Development 5
EDCS508 Poverty, Education, and Int’l Development 5
GEOG 680 Theories of Development 5
GEOG 680C Seminar: Gender and Development 5
POLS 540 Politics of Developing Areas 5
SOCI 565 Social Change 5
SOC 613 Poverty and Inequality 5
Others as offered
Concentration Electives (minimum 30 credit hours)
Each student will choose and take courses appropriate to one of the four disciplinary concentrations (Gender, Health, Environment, or Social Sciences). The list of courses provided here is not exhaustive; there may be other courses identified by a student that will satisfy the disciplinary concentration requirement (with approval by the Program Director). The courses chosen must be regularly taught (no independent or directed study), substantive in nature, and international or developmental in focus. A student electing to complete a thesis may take a maximum of 10 credit hours of INST 695 Thesis towards the disciplinary concentration requirement.
Gender Concentration
Dept., Course #, Title, Credits
WS 500 Women's Studies 5
WS 501 Fundamentals of Women's Studies 5
WS 510 Global Feminisms 5
WS 511 Women and Globalization 5
WS 589 New Feminist Scholarship 5
ANTH 545 Gender in Cross-Culture Perspectives 5
ANTH 549 Life Histories: The Individual and Culture 5
COMS 621 Gender and Communication 5
COMS 742 Feminist Rhetoric Theory 5
HIST 532 Women in The Middle East 5
INST 610Y Women in African Development 5
SOC 600-614 Work and Gender in Global Perspectives 5
POLS 520 Women, Law, and Politics 5
POLS 578 Feminist Political Theories and Movements 5
POLS 590H Women & Politics 5
POLS 590T Feminist Legal Theory 5
POLS 507 Feminist Social Theory 5
POLS 570 Sex Roles and Inequality 5
POLS 571 Gender and Justice 5
Others as offered
Health Concentration
Dept., Course #, Title, Credits
HCFN 525 Readings in Food and Nutrition 4
HCFN 526 World View of Nutrition 3
HCFN 529 Community Nutrition 3
HCFN 533 Food Sanitation and Safety 2
HCFN 590 Human Nutrition 5
HCFN 610 Maternal and Child Nutrition 4
HLTH 512 International Health Programs 4
HLTH 527 Health of Women 4
HLTH 620 Bioethics in Health Care 4
HLTH 630 Epidemiology in Health Planning 4
MICR 511 General Microbiology 5
MICR 518 Epidemiology 4
MICR 544 Tropical Disease Biology 5
MICR 682 Medical Entomology 2
MICR 541A Parasitology
SOC 525 Sociology of Food Production 5
Others as offered
Environmental Concentration
Dept., Course #, Title, Credits
ANTH 578 Human Ecology 5
BIOS 581 Conservation Biology 4
BUSL 570 Environmental Law 4
ECON 513 Economics of the Environment 5
GEOG 517 Landscape Ecology 5
GEOG 521 Population Geography 5
GEOG 526 Urban Geography 5
GEOG 540 Environmental Impact Analysis 5
GEOG 544 Agricultural Ecosystems 5
GEOG 547 Resource Management 5
GEOG 550 Land Use Planning 5
GEOG 553 Environmental Planning 5
GEOG 555 Geography of Latin America 5
GEOG 556 City and the Environment 5
GEOG 558 Environmental Risk Assessment 5
GEOG 680 Third World Development and the Environment 5
GEOG 688 Seminar in Resource Management 5
PBIO 525 Plant Ecology 5
POLS 525 Environment and Natural Resource Policy
POLS 555 International Law
POLS 556 International Organizations
Others as offered
Social Sciences Concentrations
A very large number of courses in diverse areas fall within this disciplinary concentration. Many thematic groups of courses are possible: Business, Culture, Communication, Economic Policy, Education, Gender, Politics/Public Policy, as well as area studies in Africa, Latin America, and Southeast Asia.
Tracks of Study for Social Sciences Concentrations
Politics/Public Policy Track
Dept., Course #, Title, Credits
ANTH 551 Political Anthropology 5
ECON 541 International Monetary Systems 5
ECON 542 International Economic Policy 5
GEOG 521 Population Geography 5
GEOG 529 World Economic Geography 5
HIST 525 History-U.S./Latin America Relations 5
HIST 534 Arab-Israeli Dispute 5
HIST 574B International Diplomacy 1914-1939 5
HIST 574C International Diplomacy 1939-present 5
HIST 616 Seminar-U.S. Foreign Relations 5
POLS 510 Public Policy Analysis 5
POLS 520 Women, Law and Politics 5
POLS 527 Formulation-American Foreign Policy 5
POLS 529 Comparative Public Administration 5
POLS 534 Govt. and Politics of Latin America 5
POLS 535 Revolution in Latin America 5
POLS 540 The Politics of Developing Areas 5
POLS 541 African Politics 5
POLS 542 Middle East Politics 5
POLS 545 Govt.and Politics of Japan 5
POLS 546 Govt. and Politics of China 5
POLS 547A Govt. and Politics of Southeast Asia 5
POLS 547B Govt. and Politics of Southeast Asia 5
POLS 552 Advanced International Relations 5
POLS 555 International Law 5
POLS 556 International Organizations 5
POLS 563 The U.S. and Africa 5
POLS 564W OAU and Africa 5
POLS 579 Latin American Political Thought 5
POLS 588 Public Dispute Resolution 5
POLS 590A Middle East Politics 5
POLS 590B Gender and Political Dev. in Africa 5
POLS 590K International Political Economy 5
POLS 590R Democratization 5
POLS 592A Research in International Relations 5
POLS 648 Politics of Southeast Asia 5
TCOM 575 Politics and the Electronic Media 4
Others as offered
Education Track
Dept., Course #, Title, Credits
EDCE 685 Multicultural Education 4
EDAD 671 Community Education 4
EDAD 703 Admin. Of Educ. in Other Countries 4
EDCS 504 Social Structure and Change in Educ. 4
EDCS 505 Comparative Cultures and Education 4
EDCS 506A Education and Development in Africa 4
EDCS 508 Poverty, Education, and Int’l Dev. 5
EDCS 550 Teach Strategies for Cultural and Understanding 4
EDCS 606 Seminar in Comparative Education 3-5
Economic Policy Track
Dept., Course #, Title, Credits
ANTH 550 Economic Anthropology 5
ECON 503 Microeconomic 5
ECON 504 Macroeconomics 5
ECON 505 Managerial Economics 5
ECON 512 Economics of Poverty 5
ECON 513 Economics of the Environment 5
ECON 514 Natural Resource Economics 5
ECON 515 Economics of Health Care 5
ECON 520 Labor Economics 5
ECON 540 International Trade Theory 4
ECON 541 International Monetary Systems 5
ECON 542 International Economic Policy 5
ECON 550 Economics of Development 5
ECON 555 African Economic Development 5
ECON 573 Economics of Southeast Asia 5
ECON 574 Economics of Latin America 5
GEOG 521 Population Geography 5
GEOG 529 World Economic Geography 5
HIST 525 History-U.S./Latin America Relations 5
HIST 574B International Diplomacy 1914-1939 5
HIST 574C International Diplomacy 1939-present 5
POLS 555 International Law 5
POLS 590K International Political Economy 5
Others as offered
Business Track
Dept., Course #, Title, Credits
BA 585 International Business 4
BUSL 570 Environmental Law 4
BUSL 585 International Business Law 4
ECON 540 International Trade 5
ECON 541 International Monetary Systems 5
ECON 542 International Economic Policy 5
FIN 555 International Finance 5
GEOG 529 World Economic Geography 5
INCO 710 Communication and Information Diffusion 5
MGT 500 Management 4
MGT 584 Int’l Comparative Management 4
MGT 591 Seminar: Business Across Cultures 4
MKT 520 Services Marketing 4
MKT 541 International Marketing 4
SOCI 503 Sociology of Organizations 5
Others as offered
Communication Track
Dept., Course #, Title, Credits
INCO 501 Field Research Methods in Comm. 5
INCO 510 Cross Cultural Communication 5
INCO 530 Communication and the Campaign 5
INCO 610 Theories of Communication 5
INCO 621 Gender and Communication 5
INCO 710 Comm. And Information Diffusion 5
JOUR 566 International Mass Media 4
TCOM 563 New Technology 5
TCOM 575 Politics and the Electronic Media 5
TCOM 581 Women and Media 5
TCOM 586D Media and Messages 5
TCOM 586K Communication and Development 5
TCOM 586Z Multicultural Broadcasting 5
TCOM 769 International Telecommunications 5
TCOM 869R Action Research 5
Others as offered
Africa Track
Dept. Course #, Title, Credits
ANTH 581 Cultures of Sub-Saharan Africa 5
ECON 555 African Economic Development 5
EDCI 506A Education and Dev. In Africa 5
GEOG 531 Geography of Africa 5
GEOG 684C Seminar: Africa 5
HIST 541B Traditional Africa 5
HIST 541C Modern Africa 1890-present 5
HIST 542A South Africa to 1899 5
HIST 542B South Africa since 1899 5
PHIL 578 African Philosophy 5
POLS 541 African Politics 5
POLS 563 The U.S. and Africa 5
POLS 564W OAU and Africa 5
POLS 590B Gender and Political Dev. In Africa 5
Others as offered
Asia Track
Dept. Course #Title Credits
ANTH 585 Cultures of Southeast Asia 5
ECON 573 Economics of Southeast Asia 5
GEOG 538 Geography of Southeast Asia 5
GEOG 684B Seminar: Southeast 5
HIST 544C History of Vietnam 5
HIST 545A Southeast Asia to 1750 5
HIST 545B Southeast Asia 1750-1942 5
HIST 545C Southeast Asia since 1942 5
HIST 546A Traditional China 5
HIST 546B Modern China 5
HIST 548A Traditional Japan 5
HIST 548B Modern Japan 5
HIST 549 Colloq. In History of East Asia 5
INST 550 Focus on Malaysia 5
PHIL 575 Chinese Philosophy 5
POLS 545 Govt. and Politics of Japan 5
POLS 547A/B Govt. and Politics of Southeast Asia 5
POLS 648 Politics of Southeast Asia 5
Others as offered
Latin America Track
Dept., Course #, Title, Credits
ANTH 566 Cultures of the Americas 5
ECON 574 Economics of Latin America 5
GEOG 535 Geography of Latin America 5
GEOG 684A Seminar: Latin America 5
HIST 523A Latin American History Colonial Era 5
HIST 523B Latin American History 19th C. 5
HIST 523C Latin American History 20th C. 5
HIST 525 History of U.S./Latin American Relations 5
HIST 526 Dictatorship in Latin American History 5
POLS 534 Govt. and Politics of Latin America 5
POLS 535 Revolution in Latin America 5
POLS 579 Latin American Political Thought 5
SOCI 508 Latin American Society 5
Others as offered
