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Graduate Program in Development
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The Case for Interdisciplinary Training in Development Sequencing and Time to Completion |
A PhD with a Difference The Graduate Program in Development (GPD) is an interdisciplinary initiative sponsored by the Watson Institute and the departments of Anthropology, Economics, Political Science, and Sociology at Brown University. Launched in 2004, GPD enhances existing training in the participating departments by offering new courses and providing financial and other support for students admitted to the program. The program builds on a core group of faculty internationally renowned for their research and scholarship in the area of development and on existing research programs at the Watson Institute. The program fosters interdisciplinary training and research through specially designed courses offered by Watson Institute and department faculty, as well as interdepartmental colloquia and new collaborative research initiatives. As the challenges of development become ever more complex and global,
GPD aims to provide graduate students with the interdisciplinary skills
that innovative research calls for. GPD Fellows are required to fulfill
all of their home department requirements as well as complete four additional
course requirements for GPD. They are assisted in doing so by a special
financial support package. Fellows successfully finishing the program
are awarded a Certificate in Development Studies.
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Updated February 26, 2004
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