Students
The IDS minor requires 21 credits. At least twelve of these credits must come from the CORE IDS courses and as many as nine credits can come from CONTENT courses. (At least seven credits must be upper division credits).
Core courses
(12 credits required)
- ANTH 329 Social Change in Non-Western Societies
- COMM 251X International and Development Communication
- ECNS 217 Economic Development
- ECNS 450 Advanced Economic Development
- EVST 487 Globalization, Justice and the Environment
- FOR/RSCN 170 International Environmental Change
- FOR/RSCN 424 Community Forestry and Conservation
- FOR/RSCN 475 Sociology of Environment & Development
- GPHY 141S Geography of World Regions
- PSCI 431 Politics of Global Migration
- PSCI 463 Development Administration
- RECM 451W Tourism and Sustainability
- SOC 270 Introduction to Rural and Environmental Change (F & Soph only)
- SOCI 371 Social Change and Global Development
- SW 323 Women and Social Action in the Americas
- SW 465 Social Work in a Global Context
Content Courses
(9 Credits Required)*
- ANTH 330H Peoples and Cultures of the World
- ANTH 343S Culture and Population
- ANTH 385S Indigenous Peoples and Global Development
- BUS 160S Issues in Sustainability (COT)
- COMM 421 Communication and Nonprofit Organizations
- COMM 451 Intercultural Communication
- ECNS 101S Economic Way of Thinking
- EVST 410.8 Environmental Justice and Sustainable Development
- EVST 440 Environmental Economics
- FOR/RECM/GPHY 352 Himalayan Environment and Development
- FOR/RECM/GPHY 353 Tourism, Livelihoods and Sustainability
in the Himalaya - GPHY 121S Introduction to Human Geography
- GPHY 243X Africa
- GPHY GPHY/EVST 432 Human Role in Environmental Change
- 245X The Middle East
- GPHY 433 Cultural Ecology
- GPHY 434 Food and Famine
- GPHY 444 High Asia
- HSTR 231X Latin America, 1800-1990s
- HSTR 241 Central Asian Culture and Civilization
- HSTR 384E History of International Human Rights
- NAS 475 / PSCI 475 Indian Sovereignty and Policy
- PSCI 220S Introduction to Comparative Government
- PSCI 230 International Relations
- PSCI 325 Politics of Latin America
- PSCI 326 Politics of Africa
- PSCI 327 Politics of Mexico
- PSCI 343 Politics of Social Movements
- PSCI 432 Inter-American Relations
- SOCI 212S Social Issues in SE Asia
- SOCI 346 Rural Sociology
- SOCI 355 Population and Society
- SOCI 443 Sociology of Poverty
- SW 324 Gender and the Politics of Welfare
*With permission of a core faculty member, up to 6 credits of field experience in International Development can be counted toward the content requirement
