Bulletin--World Development Studies Program

World Development Studies


College of Behavioral and Social Sciences
Dean: Joseph Julian

World Development Studies Program
HSS 269
415-338-7492
Director: Raymond Miller

Faculty
Professors—Hymans, Miller, Moss, Yansane

Associate Professors—Caulfield, Keith

Assistant Professors—Banerjee, Barbosa, Foschi, King, Oñate, Safisadeh, Shastri

Program
Minor in World Development Studies


Program Scope

The field of world development studies looks at the comprehensive transformations that have been brought to human societies across the globe by the spread of the industrial revolution. Approximately one-third of the world's population enjoys a higher material standard of living due to industrialization, whereas two-thirds are in relative poverty. The likelihood, means, and consequences of closing this gap provide the central foci of world development studies. Since this social transformation affects all aspects of human existence, all of the social science disciplines devote important efforts to understanding it.

Issues Central to World Development Studies

Career Outlook

Though the minor is not intended as a complete career preparation, it certainly serves as an introduction to a growing career field. There are tens of thousands of development professionals working for governments, the United Nations and its affiliated agencies, a multitude of non-governmental organizations, development banks, universities, and private companies around the world. The minor enables the student to discover a major field of employment as well as scholarly activity.

MINOR IN WORLD DEVELOPMENT STUDIES

All choices must be approved by a faculty adviser, who should be contacted as soon as a student decides to take the minor. Courses with at least three different departmental home-based prefixes must be included in each student's program.

Courses for this program are listed in alphabetical sequence (see course discipline listing in the Announcement of Courses section).

Historical Background				Units
One course from the following			    3
	BL S 302	Black Diaspora
	ECON 402	Economic History of 
			Europe
	HIST/IR 392	Asia in Transition
	HIST 400	Modern European 
			Imperialism
	HIST/ANTH/LARA/SS 501 Latin America: 
			The National Period
	SS/IR/PLSI 520	Modernization and Third 
			World Countries
The Global Development Era: Theory and Practice
One course from the following			  3-4
	ECON 620	Economic Development
	HIST 312	Capitalist Hegemony and 
			Third World Resistance
	IR/SS 540	The Rich and the Poor 
			Nations (4)
	PLSI 415	Democracy in the Third 
			World (4)
Development and the Environment
One course from the following			  3-4
	ECON 550	Economics of Energy and 
			the Environment
	GEOG 402	The Climatic Challenge
	GEOG 427	Agriculture and Food 
			Supply
	IR 305		Problems and Contro-
			versies in International 
			Relations: World Eco-
			logical Crisis (4)
	SOC 483		Global Sociology (4)
	SOC 484		Population Problems (4)
	SS/IR 560	Energy in Global 
			Perspective
Cultural, Ethnic, and Gender Perspectives
One course from the following			  3-4
	ANTH 321	Endangered Cultures
	ANTH 446	Peasants in Contempo-
			rary Perspective
	BLS 335		Black Woman: A Cultural 
			Analysis
	IR 305		Minorities in World 
			Politics (4)
	LARA 410	La Raza Women
	PLSI 414	Ethnic Politics in a 
			Comparative Perspec-
			tive (4)
	SS/IR 544	Women in the World (4)
	SOC 461		Ethnic Relations: 
			International Compari-
			sons (4)
	WOMS 531	Women and International 
			Development
Regional Comparisons
Two courses on two different regions from the 
following					  6-8
	ANTH 315	Peoples and Cultures of 
			Central America
	ANTH 315	Peoples and Cultures of 
			the Far East
	BLS 301		Africa in Global 
			Perspective
	ECON 611	Socialist Economic 
			Systems
	GEOG 570	Regional Studies: Latin 
			America
	GEOG 570	Regional Studies: Africa
	GEOG 570	Regional Studies: Far East
	HIST 318	Japan and China: Compara-
			tive Modern Development
	HIST 520	Central America and the 
			Caribbean
	HIST 603	History of the Middle 
			East
	HIST 611	Modern Africa
	IR 324		Middle East: Heart-
			land (4)
	IR/HIST/SS 393/GEOG 574 Contemporary 
			Asia
	LARA 460	Central Americans of 
			the United States: 
			History and Heritage
	PLSI 403	Latin American 
			Politics (4)
	SS/HIST 550	Social Change in Modern 
			Latin America
Electives
One course on advisement from the following, 
or from any of the courses in the above 
categories not chosen to fulfill a requirement 
within a student's individual curriculum	  3-4
	ANTH 320	Racism: Cross-Cultural 
			Analysis
	ANTH 560	Economic Anthropology
	ANTH 585	Multinational Corpora-
			tions and World Cultures
	ART 508		African Art History
	ECON 600	International Economics
	GEOG 425	Economic Geography
	HED 370		Current Health Issues: 
			World Health Problems
	HIST 524	History of Mexico
	HIST 528	History of Brazil
	HIST 571	History of Modern China
	HIST 578	History of Japan
	IR 305		International Debt 
			Crisis (4)
	IR 305		World Economic 
			Crisis (4)
	IR 321		African Foreign 
			Policy (4)
	IR 325		Chinese Foreign 
			Policy (4)
	IR 326		South & Southeast Asia 
			Foreign Relations (4)
	IR 334		International Organiza-
			tions: New World Order (4)
	IR 446		The Multinational Corpor-
			ation in World Affairs (4)
	LARA 376	History of La Raza in the 
			United States
	PLSI 404	Politics of China (4)
	PLSI 406	Central American 
			Politics (4)
	PLSI 413	Comparative Communism (4)
	PSY 455		Cross-Cultural Perspec-
			tives in Psychology
	SOC 471		Social Change (4)
	SS 510		Socio-Cultural Change: 
			An Interdisciplinary 
			Analysis
	CIN 308		Third World Perspec-
			tives in Film
	HUM 515		Styles of African 
			Cultural Expression
	HUM 520		North & South American 
			Cultural Expression
	HUM 540		Styles of Chinese 
			Cultural Expression
	IBUS 591	Doing Business in Latin 
			America
	IBUS 592	Doing Business in China
	MGMT 681	Seminar in Comparative 
			Management
	NEXA 327	Business and Culture
	NEXA 392	Culture and Technology
	PHIL 395	Philosophy of 
			Technology
Holistic Perspective: Special Study
A one-unit special study from the student's 
adviser's home department (ANTH 699, 
ECON 699, etc.)					    1
		Total for minor			22-28

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