World Development Studies

College of Behavioral and Social Sciences
Dean: Joel Kassiola

World Development Studies Program
HSS 269
415-338-7492/2055
Director: Raymond Miller

Faculty

 Professors--Hymans, Miller, Moss, Yansane

Associate Professors--Banerjee, Barbosa, Caulfield, Keith, King, Oñate, Shastri

Assistant Professors--Foschi, Quesada

Program

Minor in World Development Studies

Program Scope

The field of world development studies looks at the comprehensive transformations that have been brought to human societies across the globe by the spread of the industrial revolution. Approximately one-third of the world's population enjoys a higher material standard of living due to industrialization, whereas two-thirds are in relative poverty. The likelihood, means, and consequences of closing this gap provide the central foci of world development studies. Since this social transformation affects all aspects of human existence, all of the social science disciplines devote important efforts to understanding it.

Issues Central to World Development Studies.How did the world distribution of income and wealth become so unequal, and will or must it stay that way?

Career Outlook

 Though the minor is not intended as a complete career preparation, it certainly serves as an introduction to a growing career field. There are tens of thousands of development professionals working for governments, the United Nations and its affiliated agencies, a multitude of non-governmental organizations, development banks, universities, and private companies around the world. The minor enables the student to discover a major field of employment as well as scholarly activity.

MINOR IN WORLD DEVELOPMENT STUDIES

All choices must be approved by a faculty adviser, who should be contacted as soon as a student decides to take the minor. Courses with at least three different departmental home-based prefixes must be included in each student's program.

Courses for this program are listed in alphabetical sequence (consult Index for page reference).

Units

Historical Background

One course from the following		3

BL S 302	Black Diaspora

ECON 402	Economic History of Europe

IR 392	Asia in Transition

HIST 400	Modern European Imperialism

HIST/ANTH/LARA/SS 501 Latin America: 

The National Period

SS/IR/PLSI 520	Modernization and Third 

World Countries

The Global Development Era: Theory and
Practice

 
One course from the following		3-4

ECON 620	Economic Development

HIST 312	Capitalist Hegemony and Third 

World Resistance

IR/SS 540	The Rich and the Poor Nations (4)

PLSI 415	Democracy in the Third World (4)

Development and the Environment

 
One course from the following		3-4

ECON 550	Economics of Energy and the 

Environment

GEOG 402	The Climatic Challenge

GEOG 427	Agriculture and Food Supply

IR 305	Problems and Controversies in 

International Relations: World 

Ecological Crisis (4)

SOC 483	Global Sociology (4)

SOC 484	Population Problems (4)

SS/IR 560	Energy in Global Perspective

Cultural, Ethnic, and Gender Perspectives

 
One course from the following		3-4

ANTH 321	Endangered Cultures

ANTH 446	Peasants in Contemporary 

Perspective

BLS 335	Black Woman: A Cultural 

Analysis

IR 305	Minorities in World Politics (4)

LARA 410	La Raza Women

PLSI 414	Ethnic Politics in a Comparative 

Perspective (4)

SS/IR 544	Women in the World (4)

SOC 461	Ethnic Relations: International 

Comparisons (4)

WOMS 531	Women and International 

Development

Regional Comparisons

 
Two courses on two different regions from the 

following		6-8

ANTH 315	Peoples and Cultures of Central 

America

ANTH 315	Peoples and Cultures of the Far 

East

BLS 301	Africa in Global Perspective

ECON 611	Socialist Economic Systems

GEOG 570	Regional Studies: Latin America

GEOG 570	Regional Studies: Africa

GEOG 570	Regional Studies: Far East

HIST 318	Japan and China: Comparative 

Modern Development

HIST 520	Central America and the 

Caribbean

HIST 603	History of the Middle East

HIST 611	Modern Africa

IR/PLSI 321	Development and Foreign 

Policy--Africa (4)

IR/PLSI 322	Latin American Policy Analysis (4)

IR 324	Middle East: Heartland (4)

IR/SS 393/GEOG 574 Contemporary 

Asia

LARA 460	Central Americans of the United 

States: History and Heritage

PLSI 417	Government and Politics of South 

Asia (4)

SS/HIST 550 Social Change in Modern 

Latin America

Electives

 
One course on advisement from the following, 

or from any of the courses in the above 

categories not chosen to fulfill a require-

ment within a student's individual 

curriculum		3-4

ANTH 320	Racism: Cross-Cultural Analysis

ANTH 560	Economic Anthropology

ANTH 585	Multinational Corporations and 

World Cultures

ART 508	African Art History

ECON 600	International Economics

GEOG 425	Economic Geography

HED 370	Current Health Issues: World 

Health Problems

HIST 524	History of Mexico

HIST 528	History of Brazil

HIST 571	History of Modern China

HIST 578	History of Japan

IR 305	International Debt Crisis (4)

IR 305	World Economic Crisis (4)

IR/PLSI 325	Chinese Foreign Policy: Domestic 

and Foreign (4)

IR 326	South and Southeast Asia 

Foreign Relations (4)

IR 334	International Organizations: 

New World Order (4)

IR 446	The Multinational Corporation 

in World Affairs (4)

LARA 376	History of La Raza in the United 

States

PLSI 406	Central American Politics (4)

PLSI 413	Comparative Communism (4)

PSY 455	Cross-Cultural Perspectives in 

Psychology

SOC 471	Social Change (4)

SS 510	Socio-Cultural Change: An 

Interdisciplinary Analysis

CINE 308	Third World Cinema

HUM 515	Styles of African Cultural 

Expression

HUM 520	North and South American 

Cultural Expression

HUM 540	Styles of Chinese Cultural 

Expression

IBUS 591	Doing Business in Latin America

IBUS 592	Doing Business in China

MGMT 681	Seminar in Comparative 

Management

NEXA 327	Business and Culture

NEXA 392	Culture and Technology

PHIL 395	Philosophy of Technology

Holistic Perspective: Special Study

 
A one-unit special study from the student's 

adviser's home department (ANTH 699, 
ECON 699, etc.)		1

Total for minor		22-28