Global Development Studies (MN)

The Global Development Studies minor requires 6 units:

1. GDS 211

2. One of the following two "core" courses:

   1. ECON 268

   2. SOAN 316

3. Three units of electives from the program curriculum listed below. Students must take at least one unit from the "Topical" group and one unit from the "Regional" group. At least two of three electives must be at the 200 level or higher. Students who take both GDS core courses (ECON 268 and SOAN 316) will receive elective credit (Topical) for the second course

4. GDS 400 or approved capstone in another major.

Notes

1. If approved by a member of the Advisory Committee, substitution of requirements may be possible using courses not already listed as approved electives, including courses taken during study abroad. Approval of these petitions will be determined according to the extent the courses address political, social, economic or cultural changes associated with development processes. Courses applicable to the minor in Global Development Studies may be taken at any time in a student’s academic trajectory.

General Requirements for the Minor

General university degree requirements stipulate that 1) three units of the minor be taken in residence at the University of Puget Sound; 2) students earn a GPA of 2.0 in courses taken for the minor; and 3) all courses taken for the minor must be taken for graded credit. Any exceptions to these stipulations are indicated in the minor degree requirements listed below.

Topical Electives

BUS/IPE 361 Business and the Base of the Pyramid

COMM 460 Technology, Organization, and Globalization

SOAN 407 Political Ecology

CONN 389 Global Struggles Over Intellectual Property

ECON 271 International Economics

ECON/ENVP 327 Climate Change: Economics, Policy, and Politics

ENVP/PG 382 Global Environmental Politics

IPE 205 The Political Economy of International Trade and Finance

IPE 321 The Business of Alleviating Poverty: NGOs, Corporations, and Social Entrepreneurs

IPE/SOAN 323 The Political, Economic, and Social Context of International Tourism

IPE 331 Political Economy of Global Food Systems

IPE 367 Cosmopolitan Countrysides: Understanding Rural Places in Global Context

IPE 382 The Illicit Global Economy

PG 328 Development, Exploitation, and Political Change

SOAN 230 Indigenous Peoples: Alternative Political Economies

SOAN 275 Border Crossings: Transnational Migration and Diaspora Studies

SOAN 316 Cultural Politics of Global Development

SOAN 318 Gender, Work, and Globalization

SOAN 352 Critical Studies of Organizations, Work, and Management

SOAN 365 Global Health

Regional Electives

BUS 472 Business in Latin America

BUS 474 Business in India and South Asia

CONN 395 China and Latin America: A New Era of Transpacific Relations

ENGL 361 South Asian Fiction

HIST 280 Colonial Latin America

HIST 281 Modern Latin America

HIST 291 Modern Africa

HIST 380 Modern Mexico: From Revolution to NAFTA

HIST 382 Comparative Revolution in Twentieth Century Latin America

HIST 384 Transnational Latin America

HIST 391 Nelson Mandela and 20th Century South Africa

HIST 392 Gender in Colonial Africa

HIST 394 Slavery and the Slave Trade in Africa

IPE 333 Political Economy of Southeast Asia

LAS 100 Introduction to Latin American Studies

LAS 380 Around Macondo in Eighty Days

LAS 399 Latin America Travel Seminar

SOAN 222 Culture and Society of Southeast Asia

SOAN 315 Identity Politics in Latin America