Development Studies Minor

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Assistant Professor: Fahmi, K. (Advisor)

The purpose of the development studies minor is to offer students an introduction to the various social, political, economic, and cultural factors related to the process of development. The approach is interdisciplinary and comparative, with primary emphasis upon development-related issues.

Academic advising is provided through the Anthropology and Sociology units of the Department of Sociology, Anthropology, Psychology, and Egyptology on behalf of an interdisciplinary group of faculty.

Requirements (15 credits):

From the following lists of approved courses, three “development courses” from at least two disciplines other than the major, one “area studies course” not included in the major, and the Development Studies Seminar to be taken after or concurrent with the completion of other courses in the minor:

Approved Development Courses:

ANTH 320 - States, Capital and Rural Lives (3 cr.)
ANTH 321 - The Urban Experience (3 cr.)
ANTH 360 - Gender, Power and Social Change (3 cr.)
ANTH 372 - Applied Anthropology (3 cr.)
ANTH 450 - Third World Development (3 cr.)
ANTH 462 - Economic Anthropology (3 cr.)
ANTH 492 - Political Anthropology (3 cr.)
ECON 224 - Economic History (3 cr.)
ECON 310 - Public Finance (3 cr.)
ECON 312 - Economic Development (3 cr.)
POLS 304 - Development Agencies (3 cr.)
POLS 310 - Introduction to Development (3 cr.)
POLS 323 - Comparative Government and Politics: Developing Systems (3 cr.)
POLS 460 - Development Studies Seminar (3 cr.)
SOC 303 - Social Movements (3 cr.)
SOC 321 - The Urban Experience (3 cr.)
SOC 322 - Rural Sociology (3 cr.)
SOC 323 - Fundamentals of Population Studies (3 cr.)
SOC 431 - Political Sociology (3 cr.)
SOC 435 - Gender and Power in Development (3 cr.)
SOC 450 - Third World Development (3 cr.)

Approved Area-Studies Courses:

Special Topics

Selected special topics courses may be accepted as part of “development courses” or “area-studies courses” by the approval of the Advisor:

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Development Studies Minor

Requirements (15 credits):

Approved Development Courses:

Approved Area-Studies Courses:

Special Topics