Program Requirements
This program requires the completion of 13.0 credits, of which at least 4.0 credits must be at the C- or D-level including at least 1.0 credit at the D-level.
1. Introduction to International Development Studies (2.0 credits as follows)
IDSA01H3 Introduction to International Development Studies
[MGEA01H3 Introduction to Microeconomics or MGEA02H3 Introduction to Microeconomics: A Mathematical Approach]
[MGEA05H3 Introduction to Macroeconomics or MGEA06H3 Introduction to Macroeconomics: A Mathematical Approach]
EESA01H3 Introduction to Environmental Science
2. Core courses in International Development (at least 3.0 credits from among the following)
IDSB01H3 Political Economy of International Development
IDSB02H3 Development and Environment
IDSB04H3 Introduction to International/Global Health
IDSB06H3 Equity, Ethics and Justice in International Development
IDSB07H3 Confronting Development’s Racist Past and Present
POLB90H3 Comparative Development in International Perspective
POLB91H3 Comparative Development in Political Perspective
Note: We highly recommend that students select IDSB07H3 as part of their core B-level courses. Students in the IDS co-op program must complete IDSB07H3 prior to enrolling in IDSC01H3.
3. Methods for International Development Studies (1.5 credits as follows)
IDSC04H3 Project Management I
and
0.5 credit in Quantitative/statistical methods from the following:
GGRA30H3 Geographic Information Systems (GIS) and Empirical Reasoning
GGRB30H3 Fundamentals of GIS I
HLTB15H3 Introduction to Health Research Methodology
MGEB11H3 Quantitative Methods in Economics I
STAB23H3 Introduction to Statistics for the Social Sciences
and
0.5 credit in Qualitative methods from the following:
ANTB19H3 Ethnography and the Comparative Study of Human Societies
GGRC31H3 Qualitative Geographical Methods: Place and Ethnography
HLTC04H3 Qualitative Health Research
POLC78H3 Political Analysis I
WSTB05H3 Power in Knowledge Production
4. Research in International Development Requirement (0.5 credit):
IDSD02H3 Advanced Research Seminar in Critical Development Studies
5. Specialized Courses: Approaches to International Development (6.0 credits)
A minimum of 2.0 credits must be chosen from two different clusters below for a total of 4.0 credits. The other 2.0 credits may be selected from any of the courses listed below, and IDSC07H3, IDSC10H3, IDSC15H3, IDSC20H3, IDSC21H3, IDSC22H3, IDSD10H3, IDSD12H3, IDSD13H3, IDSD14H3 and IDSD15H3 may also be counted towards the completion of this requirement.
Culture and Society
AFSA01H3/HISA08H3 Africa in the World: An Introduction
AFSB01H3/HISB52H3 African Religious Traditions Through History
AFSB05H3/ANTB05H3 Culture and Society in Africa
AFSB50H3/HISB50H3 Africa in the Era of the Slave Trade
AFSB51H3/HISB51H3 Africa from the Colonial Conquests to Independence
AFSB54H3/HISB54H3 Africa in the Postcolonial Era
AFSC52H3/HISC52H3/VPHC52H3 Ethiopia: Seeing History
AFSC55H3/HISC55H3 War and Society in Modern Africa
AFSD51H3/HISD51H3 Southern Africa: Colonial Rule, Apartheid and Liberation
AFSD53H3/GASD53H3/HISD53H3 Africa and Asia in the First World War
ANTB09H3 Culture from Film and Media
ANTB18H3 Development, Inequality and Social Change in Latin America
ANTB20H3 Ethnography and the Global Contemporary
ANTB64H3 Are You What You Eat?: The Anthropology of Food
ANTC10H3 Anthropological Perspectives on Development
ANTC34H3 The Anthropology of Transnationalism
ANTC52H3 The Global Politics of Language
ANTC66H3 Anthropology of Tourism
FLMB77H3/(ENGB77H3) Cinema and Colonialism
FLMC83H3/(ENGC83H3) World Cinema
FLMC84H3/(ENGC84H3) Cinema and Migration
GASC41H3/MDSC14H3/(MDSC41H3) Media and Popular Culture in East Asia
GASC43H3 Colonialism and Cultures in Modern East Asia
GGRD14H3 Social Justice and the City
HISB57H3/GASB57H3 Sub-Continental Histories: South Asia in the World
HISC29H3 Global Commodities: Nature, Culture, History
IDSA02H3/AFSA03H3 Experiencing Development in Africa
IDSB10H3 Political Economy of Knowledge Technology and Development
IDSC03H3/ AFSC03H3 Contemporary Africa: State, Society, and Politics
IDSC08H3 Media and Development
IDSD08H3 Community-Centered Media Tactics for Development Advocacy and Social Change
MDSA10H3 Media Foundations
(MDSB05H3)/MDSB32H3/GASB05H3 Media and Globalization
MDSB20H3 Media, Science and Technology Studies
MDSB29H3 Mapping New MediaSOCB58H3 Sociology of Culture
MDSC32H3 Chinese Media and Politics
SOCB58H3 Sociology of Culture
SOCC25H3 Ethnicity, Race and Migration
SOCC34H3 Migrations & Transnationalisms
SOCC58H3 Global Transformations: Politics, Economy & Society
THRB21H3 Intercultural and Global Theatre
VPHB50H3 Africa Through the Photographic Lens
Development Economics
ANTC19H3 Producing People and Things: Economics and Social Life
GGRC48H3 Geographies of Urban Poverty
IDSC12H3 Economics of Small Enterprise and Micro-Credit
IDSC14H3 The Political Economy of Food
IDSC19H3/AFSC19H3 Community-driven Development: Cooperatives, Social Enterprises and the Black Social Economy
IDSD16H3/AFSD16H3 Africana Political Economy in Comparative Perspective
MGEB32H3 Economic Aspects of Public Policy
MGEC20H3 Economics of Media
MGEC61H3 International Economics: Finance
MGEC62H3 International Economics: Trade Theory
MGEC81H3 Economic Development
MGEC82H3 International Aspects of Development Policy
MGED63H3 Financial Crises: Causes, Consequences and Policy Implications
POLC98H3 International Political Economy of Finance
POLD87H3 Rational Choice and International Cooperation
Nature and Society
EESB16H3 Feeding Humans - the Cost to the Planet
EESB17H3 Hydro Politics and Transboundary Water Resources Management
ESTC34H3 Sustainability in Practice
ESTC36H3 Knowledge, Ethics and Environmental Decision-Making
GGRB21H3 Political Ecology: Nature, Society and Environmental Change
GGRC10H3 Urbanization and Development
GGRC25H3 Land Reform and Development
GGRC26H3 Geographies of Environmental Governance
GGRC28H3 Indigenous Peoples, Environment and Justice
GGRC44H3 Environmental Conservation and Sustainable Development
IDSC02H3 Environmental Science and Evidence-Based Policy
IDSD07H3/AFSD07H3 Extractive Industries in Africa
PHLB02H3 Environmental Ethics
Gender and/or Health and Development
ANTC14H3 Feminism and Anthropology
ANTC15H3 Genders and Sexualities
ANTC24H3 Culture, Mental Illness, and Psychiatry
ANTC61H3 Medical Anthropology: Illness and Healing in Cultural Perspective
GGRB28H3 Geographies of Disease
GGRD09H3 Feminist Geographies
GGRD10H3 Health and Sexuality
HLTC02H3 Women and Health: Past and Present
IDSC11H3 Issues in Global and International Health
IDSD05H3 Historical Perspectives on Global Health and Development
IDSD06H3 Feminist and Postcolonial Perspectives in Development Studies
POLC79H3 Feminist Political Thought
POLC94H3 Globalization, Gender and Development
SOCC29H3 Family and Gender in the Middle East
WSTB10H3 Women, Power and Protest: Transnational Perspectives
WSTB13H3 Feminist Critiques of Media and Culture
Development Policy
IDSC13H3 State Formation and the Politics of Development in the Global South: Explaining Divergent Outcomes
IDSC16H3 Populism, Development, and Globalization in the Global South
IDSC17H3 Development, Citizen Action and Social Change in the Global South
IDSC18H3 New Paradigms in Development: The Role of Emerging Powers
IDSD19H3 The Role of Researcher-Practitioner Engagement in Development
IDSD20H3/AFSD20H3 Thinking Conflict, Security, and Development
IDSD90H3/POLD90H3 Public Policy and Human Development in the Global South
POLC09H3 International Security: Conflict, Crisis and War
POLC16H3 Chinese Politics
POLC90H3 Development Studies: Political and Historical Perspectives
POLC91H3 Latin America: Dictatorship and Democracy
POLC96H3 State Formation and Authoritarianism in the Middle East
POLC97H3 Protest Politics in the Middle East
POLC99H3 Latin America: Politics of the Dispossessed
POLD09H3 Advanced Topics in International Security
POLD89H3 Global Environmental Politics
POLD91H3 Protests and Social Movements in Comparative Perspective
POLD92H3 Survival and Demise of Dictatorships
