Courses

Foundation Courses (12 credit hours)

All students in the International Development Program are required to take the following foundation courses and should take them the first semester:

INST 5400 Pro-seminar: Fundamentals of Development* - 4 credits
GEOG 5290 World Economic Geography - 4 credits
POLS 5400 Politics of Developing Areas

*The Pro-Seminar is only offered every other year, depending on the availability of the instructor. Should it not be available to you during your course of study, you may substitute any course from the Development Core list.

Development Core (minimum of 8 credit hours)

Development and the development process do not belong to any discipline, although many have an interest in and significant ideas to contribute to an understanding of development. This distribution requirement is to provide the student with different discipline perspectives on development - what are the questions asked, topics studied, and analytical interests. Below are suggested courses which fulfill this requirement, but the list is not comprehensive nor are all the courses taught every semester. Consult the course listings for each semester to determine if a course is being taught and the credit hour value of the course.

ANTH 5450 Gender in Cross Cultural Perspective
ANTH 5500 Economic Anthropology
ANTH 5510 Political Anthropology
ANTH 5530 Anthropology of Violence and Peace
ECON 5120 The Economics of Poverty *
ECON 5500 Development Economics **
EDCS 5020 Education and Transformative Social Change
EDCS 5040 Sociology, Politics, and Change in Education
GEOG 5400 Geography of Development
GEOG 5410 Geography of Hunger and Food Security
GEOG 5480 Migration and Development
GEOG 6430 Seminar in Development: Gender and Development
IHS 5210 Fundamentals of Global Health
POLS 5560 International Organizations
POLS 5565 International Human Rights
POLS 5640 Global Humanitarianism
SOC 6070 Seminar in Globalization
SOC 6080 Seminar on Poverty
SOC 6160 Social Theory

*This course is recommended for students who have a limited background in Economics and yet want to understand the role on economics in development.
**This course is for students who have a background in economics, specifically have had macro- and micro-economics.

Methods Core (minimum 8 credit hours)

Emphasis is on the acquisition of analytical skills, research methodologies, and practical techniques which allow the student to address the complexity and multitude of development problems in a specific context, and do so effectively, efficiently, and critically. Below is a selected list of courses which satisfy the methods requirement, though this list is not comprehensive. Consult the course listings for each semester to determine the credit hours for each course selected; a minimum of 8 credits is required.

ANTH 5560 Ethnographic Methods & Field Research
ECON 5030 Microeconomics
ECON 5040 Macroeconomics
ECON 5710 Cost Benefit Analysis
ECON 5810 Economic Statistics
ES 5900 Special Topics in Environmental Studies: Grant Writing
GEOG 5530 Environmental Planning and Assessment
GEOG 5660 Principles of Remote Sensing*
GEOG 5710 Quantitative Methods in Geography
GEOG 5711 Qualitative Methods in Geography
GEOG 5730 Principles of Geographic Information Systems
GEOG 5731 Geographic Information Systems Applications
HLTH 6740 Biostatistics in Public Health
HLTH 6770 Grant and Proposal Writing in Public Health
HIS 5303 Secondary Data Analysis in Global Health and Development
MDIA 6020 Quantitative Communication Research
MDIA 6030 Qualitative Research Methods in Media Studies
MPA 5580 Public Sector Program Evaluation
MPA 5590 Measuring Outcomes in Public and Non-Profit Organizations
MPA 6010 Research Methods in Leadership and Public Affairs
MPS 6020 Advanced Research Methods in Leadership and Public Affairs (Requires MPA 6010)
MPA 6030 Qualitative Research Methods in Public Administration
POLS 6010 Seminar in Quantitative Research Design
PSY 5110 Statistics for the Behavioral Sciences
SOC 6540 Social Research Methods
SOC 5500 Data Analysis
SOC 6010 Seminar: Qualitative Research Methods

* Remote Sensing may count as a methods course for students pursuing the Environment technical concentration in order to meet the requirements for a GIS certificate.

Concentrations (20 hours)

NB: New/alternative courses may be approved by the IDS director at his discretion

Environment

ANTH 5780 Human Ecology
BIOS 5810 Conservation Biology
ECON 5130 Economics and the Environment
ECON 5140 Natural Resource Economics
ES 6800 Seminar in Community-Based Environmental Studies
ES 6810 Seminar in Environment and Society
ES 6820 Ecology and Environmental Issues
ES 6830 Concepts in Environmental Sustainability
GEOG 5170 Landscape Ecology
GEOG 5210 Population Geography
GEOG 5440 Agricultural Ecosystems
GEOG 5450 Gender, Environment, and Development
GEOG 5460 Environmental Law
GEOG 5470 Natural Resource Conservation
GEOG 5530 Environmental Planning and Assessment
GEOG 5580 Environmental Hazards
GEOG 6210 Seminar in Population Geography
GEOG 6500 Seminar in Environmental Justice
HLTH 6770 Environmental Health Sciences in Public Health
PBIO 5220 Tropical Plant Ecology
POLS 5260 Politics of Contemporary Environmental Movement
POLS 5550 International Law
POLS 5560 International Organization
POLS 5880 Environment and Public Policy Dispute Resolution
SOC 5810 Environmental Sociology

ID and Gender

ANTH 5450 Gender in Cross-Cultural Perspectives
ANTH 5490 Life History: The Individual and Culture
CLWR 5450 Women in Buddhist Traditions
COMS 6230 Gender and Communication
GEOG 5270 Social Geographies
GEOG 5450 Gender, Environment, and Development
POLS 5076 Women and Politics
POLS 5780 Feminist Political Theories and Movement
SOC 5700 Sociology of Gender
SOC 5710 Gender and Justice
WGS 5110 Women and Globalization
WGS 5600 Gender, Sexuality, and Culture

ID and Health

ANTH 5550 Medical Anthropology
BIOS 5440 Tropical Disease Biology
ECON 5150 Economics of Health Care
INST 6900 Special Topics in International Studies: HLI*
HLTH 5120 International Health Programming
HLTH 6150 Maternal and Child Health in Africa
HLTH 6170 HIV/AIDS in Africa
HLTH 6240 Community Health Programs
HLTH 6710 Public Health Concepts
HLTH 6720 Social & Behavioral Sciences in Public Health
HLTH 6730 Epidemiology in Public Health
HLTH 6740 Biostatistics in Public Health
HLTH 6750 Health Services Administration in Public Health
HLTH 6760 Environmental Health Sciences in Public Health
HLTH 6770 Grant and Proposal Writing in Public Health
HLTH 6780 Public Health Practices and Issues

ID and Social Science

See Director.

ID and Conflict