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COORDINATE MAJOR IN INTERNATIONAL DEVELOPMENT
The major in International Development must be coordinated with a separate major in a traditional discipline. This traditional discipline is the primary major which determines whether a student earns a B.A. or a B.S. degree. The coordinate major in International Development provides students with an education firmly rooted in the liberal arts tradition, while also providing them with a focused and international framework for analysis of current international events. A student in the ID program will graduate with a sophisticated understanding of contemporary global issues, especially as they pertain to the developing world.
International Development is a social science that embraces the theory and practice of improving the quality of life of people in the developing world. The program emphasizes a comprehensive approach to standard international development analysis by incorporating not just economic, but social, environmental, legal and cultural dimensions as well. ID, as a field of study, is relatively new. It emerged from critiques of post-World War II programs designed to alleviate poverty and promote economic, democratic and social development in second and third world countries after independence. International sustainable development promotes a cross-disciplinary understanding of economics, law, sociology, political science, anthropology and language, in the context of sustainable or environmentally friendly positive social change. Courses will be taken in various departments in the Liberal Arts and Sciences as well as in at the Payson Center for International Development and Knowledge Transfer.
Students will declare the major with a member of the faculty. Faculty will meet with students in the program at least once a semester to discuss their degree status in order to ensure progress toward the completion of the degree. The core curriculum will provide students with a comprehensive understanding of world issues and the appropriate foundation to design the rest of their program.
MAJOR REQUIREMENTS
(minimum 33 credit hours)
12 credits required from the International Development curriculum
6 credits required of a foreign language (above 203 level)**
15 credits of acceptable electives (with no more than one course at the 100 level and with at least one course at the 400 level and at least one course at the 600 level or above)
** The number of required credits will vary depending on participation in summer, semester or year abroad study programs.
MINOR REQUIREMENTS
(18 credit hours)
12 credits from core International Development curriculum:
IDEV 1010 Introduction to International Development
ECON 1020 Introductory Macroeconomics
IDEV 3200 Approaches to Sustainable Development
IDEV 4100 Information Technology and International Development
6 credits of acceptable Electives
REQUIRED COURSES FOR THE MAJOR
I. International Development (12 credits)
IDEV 1010 Introduction to International Development
ECON 1020 Introductory Macroeconomics
IDEV 3200 Approaches to Sustainable Development
IDEV 4100 Information Technology and International Development
II. Foreign Language (6 credits)
6 credits required of a foreign language (above 203 level)
We strongly encourage students to study a foreign language abroad in a summer, semester or year long program. Depending on program participation, the number of credits for a foreign language will vary. The goal is a spoken proficiency in a foreign language, preferably one that is spoken in many countries of the developing world (e.g. French, Spanish, Portuguese, Mandarin, etc). Spoken proficiency is defined according to criteria established by ACTFL and the Payson Center. Students will be tested in the same fashion as they currently are at Tulane for meeting proficiency requirements. Students who do not study abroad must take at least six credits of a foreign language above the 203 level; however, students who enter into the program already fluent in a foreign language may test out of this requirement although they will be encouraged to attempt a third language.
III. Acceptable Electives: (15 credits with at least one course at the 4000 level and at least one course at the 6000 level or above)
ANTH 3160 Peoples of the Pacific
ANTH 3330 Anthropology of Gender
ANTH 3070/6070 Contemporary Chinese Society
ANTH 3080/6080 Far East
ANTH 3690 Language and Gender
ANTH 3770 Global Vietnam
ASTA 1460 01 Asian American Communities
ASTA 3180 Peoples of South Asia
BRAZ 2010 Intro to Brazilian Studies
COMM 2200 Organizational Communication
COMM 3300 Comparative Political Communication
COMM 3650 Feminist Documentary and New Media
COMM 4500 Media and Democracy in Latin America
EBIO 2040 Conservation of Biological Diversity
EBIO 2050 Global Change Biology
ECON 3320 Urban Economics
ECON 3330 Environmental and Natural Resource Economics
ECON 3540 Development Economics
ECON 3720 Contemporary Japanese Economy
ECON 3740 Asia-Pacific Economic Development
ECON 3830 Economics of Gender
ECON 4500 Health Economics and Policy
EENS 1110 Physical Geology
EENS 2020 Environmental Geology
EENS 2040 Natural Disasters
EENS 2060 Introductory Geography
EENS 3720 Infrastructure of Sustainable Urban Environments
EENS 4800 Air Pollution Fundamentals and Models
EENS 6030 Environmental Methods
EENS 6050 Natural Disasters (instructor permission required)
HISB 1310 Africa Since 1880
HISC 3020 China 1600 to Present
HISC 6120 History of Women in China and Japan
HISL 1710 Intro to Latin American History
HISL 6670 Modern Mexico
HISL 6820 Modern Brazil
HISL 7720 Modern Central America
HISM 3210 Modern Middle East
HISM 3220 Arab/Israeli Conflict
IDEV 4220 Introduction to Human Aspects of Disasters and Complex Emergencies
IDEV 4900 Organizational Leadership
IDEV 6220 Introduction to Human Aspects of Disasters and Complex Emergencies
IDEV 4230 Food Aid and Food Security in Humanitarian Settings
IDEV 6230 Food Aid and Food Security in Humanitarian Settings
IDEV 6670 International Political and Economic Relations
PECN 3030 The Individual, State, and Society
PECN 3040 Comparative and International Political Economy
PHIL 3500 Buddhism
PHIL 3560 Social and Political Ethics
PHIL 3650 Crime and Punishment
PHIL 3850 Terrorism
PHIL 6540 Global Justice
POLC 3320 Poverty and Development
POLC 3350 Latin American Governments
POLC 3380 Asian Governments
POLC 4010 Islam and the West
POLC 4020 International Development: Latin America
POLC 4420 State and society in Developing Countries
POLC 6950 Rule of Law in Latin America
POLI 3540 International Political Economy
POLI 4600 Latin American International Relations
POLI 6420 Global Environmental Politics
POLT 4870 Asian Political Thought
SOCI 1040 Gender and Society
SOCI 1060 Urban Sociology
SOCI 1470 Global Social Change
SOC 2010 Contemporary Asian-American Community
SOCI 2180 Wealth, Power, and Inequality
SOCI 2600 Environmental Sociology
SOCI 6560 Social Movements and Collective Behavior
SOCI 6920 Social Stratification in Latin America
SOWK 3300 Social Welfare of the Tibetan refugee
SOWK 3310 Tibetan Refugees India
SOWK 3320 Tibet: Social Welfare and Change
SOWK 4000 Community Organizing for Social Change
THEA 4410 Theater and Social Change
IDEV 1010 Introduction to Development (3)
Staff. This course is designed to give the students a broad-based understanding of the international issues and the goals and methods of international development since World War II.
IDEV 3200 Approaches to Sustainable Development (3)
Staff. Prerequisites: INDV 101, ECON 101 and 102. This course is designed to examine the impact of macroeconomic policy and political structure on environment, gender, communications, modernization and cultural change, basic needs, democratization, and appropriate technologies.
IDEV 4100 Information Technology and International Development (3)
Staff. This course is designed to introduce students to contemporary issues in information technology pertaining to international development and to understand its impact by investigating the existence, importance, and direction of information technology in the developing world.
IDEV 4900 Organizational Leadership (3)
Staff. This is an elective course which is designed to give students the opportunity to develop the leadership and management skills necessary for International Development policy and field work.
IDEV 4910, 4920 Independent Study (3, 3)
Staff. Open to upper-level students with approval of instructor.
IDEV 4950 Special Topics (3)
Staff. Courses offered by visiting professors or permanent faculty. For specific offering, see the Schedule of Classes. For description, consult the department.
† By special permission.
* Non-LAS course. See the college SPC restrictions.
