Development Studies Minor

Approved Development Courses:

• ANTH 320 - Peasants, Nomads and Rural Change (3 cr.)
• ANTH 321 - Urban Society in Transition (3 cr.)
• ANTH 360 - Gender, Society 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 - Urban Society in Transition (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:

• ANTH 312 - Peoples and Cultures of the Middle East and North Africa (3 cr.)
• ANTH 382 - Peoples and Cultures of Sub-Saharan Africa (3cr.)
• ANTH 384 - Peoples and Cultures of Latin America (3 cr.)
• ANTH 386 - Peoples and Cultures of Asia (3 cr.)
• ECON 239 - Economic History of the Modern Middle East (3 cr.)
• ECON 414 - Economics of Egypt (3 cr.)
• ECON 415 - Economic Development in the Middle East (3 cr.)
• HIST 410 - Selected Topics in Modern European Imperialism (3 cr.)
• POLS 206 - Global Politics in the Twentieth Century (3 cr.)
• POLS 308 - Comparative Politics of the Middle East (3 cr.)
• POLS 324 - Comparative Government and Politics in Contemporary Eastern Europe and Russia (3 cr.)
• POLS 354 - Political and Social Thought in the Modern Arab World (3 cr.)
• POLS 420 - Issues in Middle East Politics (3 cr.)
• POLS 439 - Government and Politics in the Modern Caucasus and Central Asia (3 cr.)
• SOC 203 - Social Problems of the Middle East (3 cr.)

Special Topics

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

• ECON 412 - Selected Topics in Development Economics (3 cr.)
• POLS 402 - Seminar: Special Topics in Development/Political Economy (3 cr.)
• SOC 400 - Selected Topics in Sociology (3 cr.)