Global Development Studies (MN)
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The Global Development Studies minor requires 6 units:
One of the following two "core" courses:
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 (course and course) will receive elective credit (Topical) for the second course
course or approved capstone in another major.
Notes
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
course/course Business and the Base of the Pyramid
course Technology, Organization, and Globalization
course Political Ecology
course Global Struggles Over Intellectual Property
course International Economics
course/course Climate Change: Economics, Policy, and Politics
course/course Global Environmental Politics
course The Political Economy of International Trade and Finance
course The Business of Alleviating Poverty: NGOs, Corporations, and Social Entrepreneurs
course/course The Political, Economic, and Social Context of International Tourism
course Political Economy of Global Food Systems
course Cosmopolitan Countrysides: Understanding Rural Places in Global Context
course The Illicit Global Economy
course Development, Exploitation, and Political Change
course Indigenous Peoples: Alternative Political Economies
course Border Crossings: Transnational Migration and Diaspora Studies
course Cultural Politics of Global Development
course Gender, Work, and Globalization
course Critical Studies of Organizations, Work, and Management
course 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