Degree Requirements for Global Development Studies

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General Requirements for the Minor

General university degree requirements stipulate that 1) three units of the minor be taken in residence at Puget Sound; 2) students earn a GPA of 2.0 in courses taken for the minor; and 3) all courses taken for a minor must be taken for graded credit. Any exceptions to these stipulations are indicated in the minor degree requirements listed below.

Requirements for the Minor

The Global Development Studies minor requires 6 units:

GDS 211
One of the following two “core” courses:
1. ECON 268
2. SOAN 316
Three units of electives from the program curriculum listed below. Students must take at least one unit from the “Topical” group and one unit from the “Regional” group. At least two of three electives must be at the 200 level or higher. Students who take both GDS core courses (ECON 268 and SOAN 316) will receive elective credit (Topical) for the second course
GDS 400.

Notes

If approved by a member of the Advisory Committee, substitution of requirements may be possible using courses not already listed as approved electives, including courses taken during study abroad. Approval of these petitions will be determined according to the extent the courses address political, social, economic or cultural changes associated with development processes. Courses applicable to the minor in Global Development Studies may be taken at any time in a student’s academic trajectory.
No more than two courses taken for the GDS minor may also be used to satisfy the requirements of a major or another minor.

Course Offerings: Topical Electives

BUS/IPE 361 Business and the Base of the Pyramid
COMM 460 Technology, Organization, and Globalization
ECON 271 International Economics
ECON 327 Climate Change: Economics, Policy, and Politics
ENVR/PG 382 Global Environmental Politics
IPE 205 The Political Economy of International Trade and Finance
IPE 321 The Business of Alleviating Poverty : NGOs, Corporations, and Social Entrepreneurs
IPE/SOAN 323 The Political, Economic, and Social Context of International Tourism
IPE 331 The International Political Economy of Food and Agriculture
IPE 367 Cosmopolitan Countrysides: Understanding Rural Places in Global Context
IPE 382 The Illicit Global Economy
IPE 389 Global Struggles over Intellectual Property
IPE/SOAN 407 Political Ecology
PG 328 Development, Exploitation, and Political Change
SOAN 230 Indigenous Peoples: Alternative Political Economies
SOAN 316 Cultural Politics of Global Development
SOAN 318 Gender, Work, and Globalization
SOAN 350 Border Crossings: Transnational Migration and Diaspora Studies
SOAN 352 Critical Studies of Organizations, Work, and Management
SOAN 365 Global Health

Course Offerings: Regional Electives

BUS 472 Business in Latin America
BUS 474 Business in India and South Asia
CONN 334 Truth and Reconciliation in South Africa and Beyond
CONN 395 China and Latin America: A New Era of Transpacific Relations
ENGL 361 South Asian Fiction
HIST 280 Colonial Latin America
HIST 281 Modern Latin America
HIST 291 Modern Africa
HIST 380 Modern Mexico: From Revolution to NAFTA
HIST 382 Comparative Revolutions in Twentieth-Century Latin America
HIST 384 Transnational Latin America
HIST 391 Nelson Mandela and 20th Century South Africa
HIST 392 Men and Women in Colonial Africa
IPE 333 Political Economy of Southeast Asia
LAS 100 Introduction to Latin American Studies
LAS 380 Around Macondo in Eighty Days
LAS/PG 399 Latin American Travel Seminar
PG 325 African Politics
SOAN 222 Culture and Society of Southeast Asia
SOAN 315 Identity Politics in Latin America
SOAN 416 Modern India and Diaspora
SPAN 402 Seminar in Nineteenth-Century Latin America