Graduate Specialization Requirements

specialization requirements

Credit Requirements

Masters Student: The student must complete twelve (12) credits as outlined below. At least half of the credits must come from outside the student's major.

Complete RD/FOR/PLS/SOC 826 and one of the Core Courses (6 credits).
Complete at least two additional courses, of at least three (3) credits each, with international development content (6 credits).

Doctoral Student: The student must complete eighteen (18) credits as outlined below.

Complete RD/FOR/PLS/SOC 826 and one of the Core Courses (6 credits).
Complete at least four (4) additional courses, of at least three (3) credits each, with international development content (12 credits).
Incorporate issues of international development relevant to the student's program of study in the departmental comprehensive exam.

Core Courses

*Core Courses*
Number	Title	Credits
AEC 817	Political Economy of Agricultural and Trade Policy	3
AEC 861	Agriculture in Economic Development	3
ANP 431	Gender, Environment, and Development	3
ANP 836	Theories of Sociocultural Change	3
ANP 867	Social Impact Analysis	3
EAD 813	Education, Development, and Social Change	3
EC 410	Issues in the Economics of Developing Countries	3
EC 840	International Trade: Theory and Commercial Policy	3
GEO 454	Spatial Aspects of Regional Development	3
PLS 853	Political Economy of Development Policy	3
PLS 854	Comparative Political Institutions	3
RD 876	International Rural Community Development	3
SOC 832	International Inequality and Development	3
SOC 931	Topics of Structural Inequality	3
TE 815	Comparative Analysis of Educational Practice	3
TE 923	Comparative Perspectives on Teaching, Curriculum, and Teacher Education	3
WS 403	Women and Change in Developing Countries	3

Note that special topics and other courses may count as core courses with approval from the graduate adviser for international development in the Center for Advanced Study of International Development.