Course Descriptions
INTD 5000 Advanced Topics in International Development Studies
CREDIT HOURS: 3
A course on a particular aspect of international development taught only by special arrangements between individual IDS students and individual instructors associated with the program. The course is available in Summer as well as in the regular academic sessions
NOTES: Students taking this course must register in and complete the Fall and Winter in the same Academic year to receive credit. Students will receive a grade of IP each term until all course requirements are completed.
FORMAT: Tutorial
FORMAT COMMENTS: Individual tutorial
INTD 5001 Readings in International Development Studies
CREDIT HOURS: 3
A reading course on a particular aspect of international development taught only by special arrangements between individual IDS students and individual instructors associated with the program. The course is available in Summer as well as in the regular academic sessions.
FORMAT: Tutorial
FORMAT COMMENTS: Individual tutorial
INTD 5002 Graduate Seminar in Research Design for Development Studies
CREDIT HOURS: 3
This course is designed to help the student to learn from a variety of research case experiences - drawing upon readings, case studies, meetings with experienced researchers and, as the year progresses, sharing their research interests and findings. It is designed to support the student in the preparation of their thesis proposals.
FORMAT: Seminar
FORMAT COMMENTS: Students are expected to register in this course each term receiving a grade of IP until all course requirements are completed. Students are required to register in this course in both the fall and winter semesters, receiving a grade of IP in the fall and a final grade in the winter term.
INTD 5003 Special Topics in INTD I
CREDIT HOURS: 3
A course on a particular aspect of international development taught only by special arrangements between individual IDS students and individual instructors associated with the program. The course is available in Summer as well as in the regular academic sessions.
FORMAT: Tutorial
FORMAT COMMENTS: Individual tutorial
INTD 5004 Special Topics in International Development Studies II
CREDIT HOURS: 3
A class on a particular aspect of international development taught by special arrangement between individual IDS Graduate Student(s) and individual instructors associated with the International Development Studies Department. The course is available in Summer as well as in the regular academic sessions.
FORMAT: Lecture
PREREQUISITES: Undergraduate degree
INTD 5006 Development and the Philosophy of Social Science
CREDIT HOURS: 3
This course is intended to serve as an initial step in undertaking research in development studies. Development cannot be studied without understanding how we construct knowledge about social phenomena. Therefore, development, in particular, and the social science, in general, are intrinsically connected to philosophy. While we have come across a wide variety of theories about development, it is imperative that we step back and analyze the philosophical and theoretical assumptions about knowledge that inform these theories. Similarly, research is not only about devising the correct methodologies, but also about uncovering the epistemology (ways of knowledge) behind the different methodologies. Once we have a sense of these assumptions, it becomes easier to choose our own frameworks and methodologies in studying development, whether in the archives, or in the field.
INTD 5007 Environment and Development
CREDIT HOURS: 3
This seminar investigates the intersections between environmental science and development science. Our primary focus will be to understand how the non-human environment impacts and constrains development interventions, both in the past and the present. Topics to be covered include agriculture and pastoralism, biodiversity and conservation, agricultural biotechnology, climate change, and environmental security.
FORMAT: Seminar
INTD 5010 Global Citizenship in Theory and Practice
CREDIT HOURS: 3
The question of global citizenship lies at the core of what International Development Studies is all about: critically examining causes of global poverty, inequality and injustice – and the ethical obligations which these issues pose for all human beings. Questions about our ethical obligations to other human beings – especially those who are very poor and very far away – have persisted in debates among philosophers and ordinary people for centuries. The idea of global citizenship – also often referred to as cosmopolitanism – dates back to ancient Greece and has been an ongoing focus of debate since then. At its core are a series of fundamental questions that have particular importance in the context of the challenges of the twenty-first century – such as economic globalization and climate change: What basic rights do all human beings possess? What ethical obligations do those rights imply for other humans? What specific actions do those ethical obligations require us to undertake? This course examines both the ethical obligations which global citizenship suggests and the ways in which people might fulfil those obligations in practice.
FORMAT: Lecture
LECTURE HOURS PER WEEK: 3
EXCLUSIONS:
INTD 4403.03
INTD 5011 Development as Modernity and Modernity as Development
CREDIT HOURS: 3
Development as we understand today is a definite product of the modern condition.
Therefore, we cannot understand development unless we understand modernity.
But often this relationship is obscured when development is discussed. This course
will seek to make sense of modernity and its inter-linkages with development. After
looking at some classical understandings of modernity, we will examine the lacunae
in such understandings. The way in which actual historical processes of
development actualize or subvert the ideal-typical notions of modernity will also be
examined. Finally, we will dwell upon the attempts to resist modernity and imagine
possibilities that are hitherto not part of the horizons of modernity. Here the debate
will be about if it is actually possible to go beyond modernity and inaugurate new
understandings of development or are these attempts radicalizing the original intent
of modernity.
NOTES: Previously offered as Special Topics - INTD 5009 - Development as Modernity and Modernity as Development
FORMAT: Lecture
LECTURE HOURS PER WEEK: 3
EXCLUSIONS:
INTD 4014.03
INTD 5600 Gender and Development
CREDIT HOURS: 3
The primary aim of this seminar course is to provide a broad foundation to some of the theoretical perspectives which have informed and shaped current thinking in gender and development. The course introduces students to key concepts in the analysis of social relations between women and men in different cultural, economic and political contexts.
INTD 9000 Master's Thesis
CREDIT HOURS: 0