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undergrad
 Development Studies

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

Advisor: M. Abdelrahman (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.

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.

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, 3 cr.

POLS/SOC

304

Bureaucracy and Development, 3 cr.

POLS

310

Introduction to Development, 3 cr.

 

323

Comparative Government and Politics: Developing Systems, 3 cr.

ECON

224

Economic History, 3 cr.

 

310

Public Finance, 3 cr.

 

312

Economic Development, 3 cr.

SOC/ANTH

303

Social Movements, 3 cr.

 

321

Urban Society in Transition, 3 cr.

 

450

Third World Development, 3 cr.

SOC

322

Rural Sociology, 3 cr.

 

323

Fundamentals of Population Studies, 3 cr.

 

431

Political Sociology, 3 cr.

ANTH

320

Peasant Societies, 3 cr.

 

360

Gender, Society, and Social Change, 3 cr.

 

372

Applied Anthropology, 3 cr.

 

462

Economic Anthropology, 3 cr.

 

492

Political Anthropology, 3 cr.

 


Approved Area-Studies Courses:

POLS

308

Comparative Politics of the Middle East, 3 cr.

 

324

Comparative Government and Politics in Contemporary Eastern Europe and Russia, 3 cr.

 

354

Political and Social Thought in the Modern Arab World, 3 cr.

 

420

Issues in Middle East Politics, 3 cr.

 

439

Government and Politics in the Modern Caucasus and Central Asia, 3 cr.

ECON

239

Economic History of the Modern Middle East, 3 cr.

 

414

Economics of Egypt, 3 cr.

 

415

Economic Development in the Middle East, 3 cr.

ANTH

312

Cultures of the Middle East and North Africa, 3 cr.

 

382

Cultures of Sub-Saharan Africa, 3 cr.

 

384

Cultures of Latin America, 3 cr.

 

386

Cultures of Asia, 3 cr.

SOC

203

Social Problems of the Middle East, 3 cr.

POLS/HIST

206

Global Politics in the Twentieth Century, 3 cr.

HIST

410

Modern European Imperialism, 3 cr.

 

 

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.

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