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Students must first declare a major in another department before declaring IDEV as a coordinate major. Then, students will declare the coordinate major with a member of the Payson Center faculty. Faculty will meet with students in the program at least once a semester to discuss their degree status in order to ensure progress toward the completion of the degree. Students will then have the option of choosing from one of the concentration areas listed below. The core curriculum will provide students with a comprehensive understanding of world issues and the appropriate foundation to design the rest of their program.
I. International Development (18 credits)
II. Foreign Language (6 credits)
6 credits required of a foreign language (at or above the 203 level)
We strongly encourage students to study a foreign language abroad in a summer, semester or year long program. Depending on program participation, the number of credits for a foreign language will vary. The goal is a spoken proficiency in a foreign language, preferably one that is spoken in many countries of the developing world (e.g. French, Spanish, Portuguese, Mandarin, etc). Spoken proficiency is defined according to criteria established by ACTFL and the Payson Center. Students will be tested in the same fashion as they currently are at Tulane for meeting proficiency requirements. Students who do not study abroad must take at least 12 credits of a foreign language at or above the 203 level; however, students who enter into the program already fluent in a foreign language may test out of this requirement although they will be encouraged to attempt a third language.
III. Nine (9) credits of electives (with at least one course at the 600 level) from the following list. Approval required by department for any courses not listed below:
ANTH 316 Peoples of the Pacific
ANTH 333 Anthropology of Gender
ANTH 307/607 Contemporary Chinese Society
ANTH 308/608 East East
ANTH 316 Peoples of the Pacific
ANTH 369 Language and Gender
ANTH 377 Global Vietnam
ASTA 146 01 Asian American Communities
ASTA 318 Peoples of South Asia
BRAZ 201 Intro to Brazilian Studies
COMM 220 Organizational Communication
COMM 330 Comparative Political Communication
COMM 365 Feminist Documentary and New Media
COMM 450 Media and Democracy in Latin America
EBIO 204 Conservation of Biological Diversity
EBIO 205 Global Change Biology
ECON 332 Urban Economics
ECON 333 Environmental and Natural Resource Economics
ECON 354 Development Economics
ECON 372 Contemporary Japanese Economy
ECON 374 Asia-Pacific Economic Development
ECON 383 Economics of Gender
ECON 450 Health Economics and Policy
EENS 111 Physical Geology
EENS 202 Environmental Geology
EENS 204 Natural Disasters
EENS 206 Introductory Geography
EENS 372 Infrastructure of Sustainable Urban Environments
EENS 480 Air Pollution Fundamentals and Models
EENS 603 Environmental Spatial Analysis
EENS-605 Natural Disasters (instructor permission required)
HISB 131 Africa Since 1880
HISC 302 China 1600 to Present
HISC 612 History of Women in China and Japan
HISL 171 Intro to Latin American History
HISL 677 Modern Mexico
HISL 682 Modern Brazil
HISM 321 Modern Middle East
HISM 322 Arab/Israeli Conflict
IDEV 422 Introduction to Human Aspects of Disasters and Complex Emergencies
IDEV 622 Introduction to Human Aspects of Disasters and Complex Emergencies
IDEV 423 Food Aid and Food Security in Humanitarian Settings
IDEV 623 Food Aid and Food Security in Humanitarian Settings
IDEV 667 International Political and Economic Relations
PECN 303 The Individual, State, and Society
PECN 304 Comparative and International Political Economy
PHIL 350 Buddhism
PHIL 356 Social and Political Ethics
PHIL 365 Crime and Punishment
PHIL 385 Terrorism
PHIL 654 Global Justice
POLC 332 Poverty and Development
POLC 335 Latin American Governments
POLC 338 Asian Governments
POLC 401 Islam and the West
POLC 442 State and society in Developing Countries
POLI 354 International Political Economy
POLI 460 Latin American International Relations
POLI 462 Global Environmental Politics
POLT 487 Asian Political Thought
SOCI 104 Gender and Society
SOCI 106 Urban Sociology
SOCI 147 Global Social Change
SOCI 218 Wealth, Power, and Inequality
SOCI 260 Environmental Sociology
SOCI 656 Social Movements and Collective Behavior
SOCI 692 Social Stratification in Latin America
SOWK 330 Social Welfare of the Tibetan refugee
SOWK 331 Tibetan Refugees India
SOWK 332 Tibet: Social Welfare and Change
SOWK 400 Community Organizing for Social Change
THEA 441 Theater and Social Change
