Students

The IDS minor requires 21 credits.  At least twelve of these credits must come from the CORE IDS courses, listed below.
As many as nine credits can come from CONTENT courses, listed below.

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Core courses
(12 credits required)

  • SOC 270 Introduction to Rural and Environmental Change (F & Soph only)
  • ANTH 329 Social Change in Non-Western Societies
  • ECON 317X Economic Development
  • SW 323 Women and Social Action in the Americas
  • FOR/RSCN 475 Sociology of Environment & Development
  • PSCI 463 Development Administration
  • SOCI 370 Social Change and Global Development
  • FOR/RSCN 170N International Environmental Change
  • COMM 251X International and Development Communication
  • ECON 450 Advanced Economic Development
  • EVST 487 Globalization, Justice and the Environment
  • FOR/RSCN 424 Community Forestry and Conservation
  • SW 465 Social Work in a Global Context

Content Courses
(9 Credits Required)*

  • ANTH 330H Peoples and Cultures of Africa
  • ANTH 343S Culture and Population
  • ANTH 385S Indigenous Peoples and Global Development
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  • BUS 160S Issues in Sustainability (COT)
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  • COMM 421 Communication and Nonprofit Organizations
  • COMM 451 Intercultural Communication
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  • ECNS 101S Economic Way of Thinking
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  • EVST 410 Environmental Justice and Sustainable Development
  • EVST 440 Environmental Economics
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  • GPHY 121S Introduction to Human Geography
  • GPHY 141S Geography of World Regions
  • GPHY 243X Africa
  • GPHY 245X The Middle East
  • GPHY 433 Cultural Ecology
  • GPHY/EVST 432 Human Role in Environmental Change
  • GPHY 434 Food and Famine
  • GPHY 444 High Asia
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  • HIST 231X Latin America, 1800-1990s
  • HIST 355 History of International Human Rights
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  • 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 431 Politics of Global Migration
  • PSCI 432 Inter-American Relations
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  • RECM 451W Tourism and Sustainability
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  • SOCI 212S Southeast Asian Culture and Civilization
  • SOCI 443 Sociology of Poverty
  • SOCI 346 Rural Sociology
  • SOCI 355 Population Problems
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  • 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

Peter Koehn
(406) 243-5294
peter.koehn@umontana.edu