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Department of Sociology, Anthropology, Psychology, and Egyptology
School of Humanities and Social Sciences

Advisor: A. Bayat (Sociology)

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.

Minor

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:

POLS/ANTH/ECON/SOC 460 Development Studies Seminar POLS/SOC 304 Bureaucracy and Development POLS 310 Introduction to Development   323 Comparative Government and Politics: Developing Systems ECON 224 Economic History   310 Public Finance   312 Economic Development SOC/ANTH 303 Social Movements   321 Urban Society in Transition   450 Third World Development SOC 322 Rural Sociology   323 Fundamentals of Population Studies   431 Political Sociology ANTH 320 Peasant Societies   360 Gender, Society, and Social Change ANTH 372 Applied Anthropology   462 Economic Anthropology   492 Political Anthropology

 

Approved Area-Studies Courses:

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

 

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

POLS 402 Seminar: Special Topics in Development ECON 412 Seminar: Special Topics in Development Economics SOC/ANTH 400 Seminar: Topics on Development Issues

 

See appropriate departments for course descriptions.