Watson Institute for International Studies
 

 

 
Graduate Program in Development
(GPD)

 

A PhD with a Difference

The Case for Interdisciplinary Training in Development

Admissions

Course Requirements

Non-Course Requirements

Sequencing and Time to Completion

Financial Awards

Faculty with Research Interests in Development

Courses Currently Offered

Courses Currently Offered (Graduate and Upper-level Undergraduate)

See Brown Online Course Announcement (BOCA) for more information

Sociology

So 187 Immigration and Ethnicity (Goldscheider)
So 187 Business Networks in East Asia (Meyer)
So 187 Demography and Development (White)
So 232 Migration (White)
So 220 Social Capital and Social Networks (Meyer)
So 215 Socio-Economic Analysis of Development (Henry)
So 297-02 Democracy and Civil Society in the Developing World (Heller)

Political Science

PS182 Contraband Capitalism: States and Illegal Global Markets (Andreas)
PS182 Politics of Globalization (Cammett)
PS213 International Relations Theory (Biersteker)
PS219 Welfare States in Old and New Democracies (Cook)

Anthropology

AN 102 AIDS in International PerspectiveAN 135 Economic Anthropology
AN 138 Women in Socialist and Developing Countries
AN 185 Anthropology and International Development: Ethnographic Perspectives
AN 204 Ideology of Development
AN 209 Issues in Anthropology and Population
AN 237 Colonialism and Neocolonialism
AN 298 International Health/Anthropological Perspectives

Economics

Ec151 Economic Development (Putterman or Pitt)
Ec150 Economic Analysis for Development Policy (Krishna)
Ec153 Health Hunger and the Household in Developing Countries (Pitt)
Ec156 Economic Growth (Weil)
Ec185 Theory of Economic Growth (Galor)
Ec188 Economic Growth II (Howitt)
Ec154 International Trade (Galor or Krishna)
Ec155 International Finance (Borts)
Ec158 Comparative Economic Systems (Putterman)
Ec159 Economy of China since 1949 (Putterman)
Ec160 Economics of the Middle East (Spolaore)
Ec182 Economics of Appropriative Conflict (Grossman)
Ec251 Development Economics
Ec283 Dynamic Optimization and Economic Growth I (Galor)
Ec284 Dynamic Optimization and Economic Growth II (Weil)
Ec285 Theory of Innovation-Based Growth (Howitt)

Updated February 26, 2004

 

 
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