This list is updated every year but may contain oversights as well as courses not currently offered. Students may take other courses, with the permission of the DS Program Director or Main Advisor. Qualified students may substitute appropriate graduate seminars or individual reading and research projects for one or more of the above courses with the approval of the Director. DEVL 1990 do not count towards fulfilling the DS course requirement. Language courses—while strongly recommended—cannot be counted towards fulfilling DS requirements.
PRE-APPROVED / APPROVED COURSES
Africana Studies
AFRI0160: Twentieth Century Africa
AFRI0200: Caribbean History and Society since 1800
AFRI0210: Blacks in Latin American History and Society
AFRI1020B: Freedom in Africana Political Thought
AFRI1020C: The Afro-Luso-Brazilian Triangle
AFRI1020E: West African Writers and Political Kingdom
AFRI1020H: Racial Frontier in South History
AFRI1060I: Africana Philosophy of Religion
AFRI1150: Afro-Caribbean Philosophy
AFRI1210: Afro-Brazilians and the Brazilian Polity
Anthropology
ANTH0066H: Healers and Healing
ANTH0100: Cult Anthro. - Understand Humn. Soc.
ANTH0300: Culture and Health
ANTH0301: Gender, Medicine and Care
ANTH1020: AIDS in International Perspective
ANTH1110: Africa in Anthropological Perspective
ANTH1130: Peoples and Cultures of Southeast Asia
ANTH1133: Ethno-nationalism: The Asian Arena
ANTH1230: Political Anthropology
ANTH1250: Film and Anthropology: Identity and Images of Indian Societies
ANTH1320: Anthropology and International Development
ANTH1321: Impact on Colonialism: Gender and Nationalism in India
ANTH1910B: Anthropological Approaches to World Issues
ANTH 1940: Ethnographic Research Methods
Biology and Medicine
BIOL0190H: Plants, Food and People
BIOL1920A: Colonialism, Imperialism and Public Health in Africa
BioMed/Community Health
PHP1070: The Burden of Disease in Developing Countries
PHP1100: Comparative Health Care Systems
PHP1680A: AIDS in International Perspectives
PHP2180: Critical Epidemiology
Comparative Literature
COLT1811K: The Present Absent in Palestinian Literature
East Asian Studies
EAST1070: China Modern: An Introduction to the Literature of Twentieth-Century China
Economics
ECON0510: Development and International Economy
ECON1110: Intermediate Microeconomics
ECON1210: Intermediate Macroeconomics
ECON1310: Labor Economics
ECON1430: Population Economics
ECON1510: Economic Development
ECON1530: Health, Hunger, and Household in Developing Countries
ECON1560: Economic Growth
ECON1600: Economics of the Middle East
EC01850: Theory of Economic Growth
English
ENGL2760K: Postcolonial Theory and Africanist Discourse
ENGL1710J: Modern African Literature
Environmental Studies
ENVS0510: Problems in International Environmental Policy
ENVS1530: From Locke to Deep Ecology: Property Rights and Environmental Policy
ENVS1920: Analysis and Resolution of Environmental Problems
History
HIST1974L: Gender and Sexuality in Latin America: From Colonial Times to the Present
HIST1450: History of the Middle East, 1800-1918
HIST1470: Southern African History
HIST1520B: China since 1935
HIST1580: Making of Modern South Asia
HIST1590: Recovering Early South Asia
HIST1620: Colonial Latin America
HIST1630: Modern Latin America I
HIST1640: Clash of Empires in Latin America
HIST1670: History of Brazil
HIST19740: Brazil and Africa in the Making of the Southern Atlantic World
HIST1971P: Identity Conflicts in the Middle East 1900-Present
HIST1660: The Mexican Revolution
HIST1973X: Maya in the Modern World
HIST1972R: Politics, Culture and Life in Brazil under Military
Rule 1964-1985
HIST1972B: History of Science in Africa
HIST1970D: After the Revolution: Mexico Since 1920
HIST1970O: Moving Boundaries: Postcolonial Histories and the Making of South Asia
HIST1971P: Identity Conflicts in the Middle East 1900-Present
HIST1973I: South Asia 1947-2000: Society, Politics, Governance
International Relations
INTL1800A: International Human Rights
INTL1800C: Asian Financial Crisis
INTL1800D: Chinese Democracy Movement in the 20th Century
INTL1800E: The Good Fight: Documentary Work and Social Change
INTL1800I: Global Migration and Citizenship
INTL1800R: Post-Soviet States from the Past into the Future
INTL1800W: Population and Environment in China
Political Science
POLS0200: Introduction to Comparative Politics
POLS1220: Politics of the Post-Soviet States
POLS1240: Politics, Markets, and States in Developing Countries
POLS1380: Ethnic Politics and Conflict
POLS1390: International Organization and World Politics
POLS1420: International Political Economy of Development
POLS1450: Comparative Political Economy
POLS1460: International Political Economy
POLS1500: International Relations of East Asia
POLS1820K: The Developmental State
POLS2110: Proseminar in Comparative Politics
Religious Studies
RELS1500: Islam and Politics in the Modern World
Sociology
SOC150: Economic Development and Social Change
SOC1010: Sociological Theory
SOC1270: Race, Class, and Ethnicity in the Modern World
SO13101: Social Change in Latin America
SOC1600: Comparative Development
SOC1620: Globalization and Social Conflict
SOC1640: Social Exclusion
SOC1871H: Social Perspectives on HIV/AIDS
Urban Studies
URBN1420: Topics in Urban Economic Policy
URBN1420: Urbanization in China
URBN1870B: Business Networks in Asia