International Development courses

IDEV 1010 Introduction to Development
Introduction to Development
This course is designed to give the students a broad-based understanding of the international issues and the goals and methods of international development since World War II.
credit hours: 3
Introduction to Development

IDEV 3200 Approaches to Sustainable Development
Approaches to Sustainable Development
This course is designed to examine the impact of macroeconomic policy and political structure on environment, gender, communications, modernization and cultural change, basic needs, democratization, and appropriate technologies.
Pre-requistites: INDV 101and 102. 
credit hours: 3
Approaches to Sustainable Development

IDEV 4100 Information Technology and International Development
Information Technology and International Development
This course is designed to introduce students to contemporary issues in information technology pertaining to international development and to understand its impact by investigating the existence, importance, and direction of information technology in the developing world.
Pre-requistites: ECON 1020, IDEV 1010 and IDEV 3200. 
credit hours: 3
Information Technology and International Development

IDEV 4220 Introduction to Human Aspects of Disasters and Complex Emergencies
Introduction to Human Aspects of Disasters and Complex Emergencies
  The course will be administered in Geneva in partnership with the International Center for Health and Migration (ICMH). It will focus primarily on disaster relief and reconstruction. Individual lessons will address a variety of subtopics such as rapid assessment, psycho-social health, reproductive health, monitoring and evaluation, relief organizations, GIS, and communicable diseases.
Notes: Offered to both undergraduate and graduate students.
credit hours: 3
Introduction to Human Aspects of Disasters and Complex Emergencies

IDEV 4230 Food Aid and Food Security in Humanitarian Settings
Food Aid and Food Security in Humanitarian Settings
This course explores the dynamics of the use of food aid, the largest single component of humanitarian emergencies. The course will review policies that guide the use of food aid, as principal controversies surrounding the use of food aid in emergency and transition settings. It will also explore assessment techniques used to gauge the vulnerability of affected populations and their needs for food based interventions, and explore the food aid management system and its logistics.
Notes: Offered to both undergraduate and graduate students.
credit hours: 3
Food Aid and Food Security in Humanitarian Settings

IDEV 4280 Urban Resilience to Climate Change
Urban Resilience to Climate Change
This course will explore the concept of resilience in urban communities in the context of the growing challenges presented  by global climatic change. Using a multidisciplinary approach, students will address the political, economic, and environmental issues that urban populations will face with the increase of natural disasters and the decrease of available natural resources. Using case studies from around the world, students will explore pragmatic solutions and urban planning techniques to address current and future challenges.
Pre-requistites: IDEV 1010.
credit hours: 3
Urban Resilience to Climate Change

IDEV 4820 Urban Resilience to Climate Change
Urban Resilience to Climate Change
This summer course will explore the concept of resilience in urban communities in the context of the growing challenges presented by global climatic change. Using a multidisciplinary approach, students will address the public health issues that urban populations will face and the increased mobilities they will use as a coping strategies with the increase of natural disasters and the decrease of available natural resources. Using case studies from around the world, students will explore pragmatic solutions and urban planning techniques to address current and future challenges.
Pre-requistites: IDEV 1010.
credit hours: 3
Urban Resilience to Climate Change

IDEV 4900 Organizational Leadership
Organizational Leadership
This course is an elective course which is designed to give students the opportunity to develop the leadership and management skills necessary for International Development policy and field work. 
credit hours: 3
Organizational Leadership

IDEV 4910 Independent Study
Independent Study
Open to upper-level students with approval of instructor.
credit hours: 1-3
Independent Study

IDEV 4920 Independent Study
Independent Study
Open to upper-level students with approval of instructor.
credit hours: 3
Independent Study

IDEV 4950 Special Topics
Special Topics
Courses offered by visiting professors or permanent faculty.  For specific offering, see the Schedule of Classes.  For escription, consult the department. 
credit hours: 3
Special Topics

IDEV 6220 Introduction to Human Aspects of Disasters and Complex Emergencies
Introduction to Human Aspects of Disasters and Complex Emergencies
The course, administered in partnership with the International Center for Health and Migration (ICMH), will focus primarily on disaster relief and reconstruction. Individual lessons will address a variety of subtopics such as rapid assessment, psycho-social health, reproductive health, monitoring and evaluation, relief organizations, GIS, and communicable diseases. This course will consist of lectures, guest lecturers, assignments and field trips.
Notes: Offered to both undergraduate and graduate students.
credit hours: 3
Introduction to Human Aspects of Disasters and Complex Emergencies

IDEV 6230 Food Aid and Food Security in Humanitarian Settings
Food Aid and Food Security in Humanitarian Settings
Course by instructor approval only. This is a two-week intensive summer course held in Rome, Italy. This course will explore the dynamics of the use of food aid, the largest single component of humanitarian emergencies. The course will review policies that guide the use of food aid, as principal controversies surrounding the use of food aid in emergency and transition settings. The course will also explore assessment techniques used to gauge the vulnerability of affected populations and their needs for food-based interventions. Lastly, the course will explore the food aid management system and its logistics. Field visits will be conducted to the principal UN agencies involved in food aid as well as diplomatic missions that determine food aid policies.
credit hours: 3
Food Aid and Food Security in Humanitarian Settings

IDEV 6670 International Political and Economic Relations
International Political and Economic Relations
In this new millennium of rapid change, globalization, and the privatization of international development, we seek to understand how political activity intersects with economic activity and how that nexus impacts the Global South. While the course title reads international political economy, we should acknowledge that global might be a more appropriate term, thereby including increasingly important non-state actors. Students use the concepts and theories of global political economy to analyze aid, trade, investment, development policy, monetary relations, and regional integration in order to understand how the world has worked in the past, is working now, and is likely to work in the future.
credit hours: 3
International Political and Economic Relations

IDEV 1010 Introduction to Development
Introduction to Development
This course is designed to give the students a broad-based understanding of the international issues and the goals and methods of international development since World War II.
credit hours: 3
Introduction to Development

IDEV 3200 Approaches to Sustainable Development
Approaches to Sustainable Development
This course is designed to examine the impact of macroeconomic policy and political structure on environment, gender, communications, modernization and cultural change, basic needs, democratization, and appropriate technologies.
Pre-requistites: INDV 101and 102. 
credit hours: 3
Approaches to Sustainable Development

IDEV 4100 Information Technology and International Development
Information Technology and International Development
This course is designed to introduce students to contemporary issues in information technology pertaining to international development and to understand its impact by investigating the existence, importance, and direction of information technology in the developing world.
Pre-requistites: ECON 1020, IDEV 1010 and IDEV 3200. 
credit hours: 3
Information Technology and International Development

IDEV 4220 Introduction to Human Aspects of Disasters and Complex Emergencies
Introduction to Human Aspects of Disasters and Complex Emergencies
  The course will be administered in Geneva in partnership with the International Center for Health and Migration (ICMH). It will focus primarily on disaster relief and reconstruction. Individual lessons will address a variety of subtopics such as rapid assessment, psycho-social health, reproductive health, monitoring and evaluation, relief organizations, GIS, and communicable diseases.
Notes: Offered to both undergraduate and graduate students.
credit hours: 3
Introduction to Human Aspects of Disasters and Complex Emergencies

IDEV 4230 Food Aid and Food Security in Humanitarian Settings
Food Aid and Food Security in Humanitarian Settings
This course explores the dynamics of the use of food aid, the largest single component of humanitarian emergencies. The course will review policies that guide the use of food aid, as principal controversies surrounding the use of food aid in emergency and transition settings. It will also explore assessment techniques used to gauge the vulnerability of affected populations and their needs for food based interventions, and explore the food aid management system and its logistics.
Notes: Offered to both undergraduate and graduate students.
credit hours: 3
Food Aid and Food Security in Humanitarian Settings

IDEV 4280 Urban Resilience to Climate Change
Urban Resilience to Climate Change
This course will explore the concept of resilience in urban communities in the context of the growing challenges presented  by global climatic change. Using a multidisciplinary approach, students will address the political, economic, and environmental issues that urban populations will face with the increase of natural disasters and the decrease of available natural resources. Using case studies from around the world, students will explore pragmatic solutions and urban planning techniques to address current and future challenges.
Pre-requistites: IDEV 1010.
credit hours: 3
Urban Resilience to Climate Change

IDEV 4820 Urban Resilience to Climate Change
Urban Resilience to Climate Change
This summer course will explore the concept of resilience in urban communities in the context of the growing challenges presented by global climatic change. Using a multidisciplinary approach, students will address the public health issues that urban populations will face and the increased mobilities they will use as a coping strategies with the increase of natural disasters and the decrease of available natural resources. Using case studies from around the world, students will explore pragmatic solutions and urban planning techniques to address current and future challenges.
Pre-requistites: IDEV 1010.
credit hours: 3
Urban Resilience to Climate Change

IDEV 4900 Organizational Leadership
Organizational Leadership
This course is an elective course which is designed to give students the opportunity to develop the leadership and management skills necessary for International Development policy and field work. 
credit hours: 3
Organizational Leadership

IDEV 4910 Independent Study
Independent Study
Open to upper-level students with approval of instructor.
credit hours: 1-3
Independent Study

IDEV 4920 Independent Study
Independent Study
Open to upper-level students with approval of instructor.
credit hours: 3
Independent Study

IDEV 4950 Special Topics
Special Topics
Courses offered by visiting professors or permanent faculty.  For specific offering, see the Schedule of Classes.  For escription, consult the department. 
credit hours: 3
Special Topics

IDEV 6220 Introduction to Human Aspects of Disasters and Complex Emergencies
Introduction to Human Aspects of Disasters and Complex Emergencies
The course, administered in partnership with the International Center for Health and Migration (ICMH), will focus primarily on disaster relief and reconstruction. Individual lessons will address a variety of subtopics such as rapid assessment, psycho-social health, reproductive health, monitoring and evaluation, relief organizations, GIS, and communicable diseases. This course will consist of lectures, guest lecturers, assignments and field trips.
Notes: Offered to both undergraduate and graduate students.
credit hours: 3
Introduction to Human Aspects of Disasters and Complex Emergencies

IDEV 6230 Food Aid and Food Security in Humanitarian Settings
Food Aid and Food Security in Humanitarian Settings
Course by instructor approval only. This is a two-week intensive summer course held in Rome, Italy. This course will explore the dynamics of the use of food aid, the largest single component of humanitarian emergencies. The course will review policies that guide the use of food aid, as principal controversies surrounding the use of food aid in emergency and transition settings. The course will also explore assessment techniques used to gauge the vulnerability of affected populations and their needs for food-based interventions. Lastly, the course will explore the food aid management system and its logistics. Field visits will be conducted to the principal UN agencies involved in food aid as well as diplomatic missions that determine food aid policies.
credit hours: 3
Food Aid and Food Security in Humanitarian Settings

IDEV 6670 International Political and Economic Relations
International Political and Economic Relations
In this new millennium of rapid change, globalization, and the privatization of international development, we seek to understand how political activity intersects with economic activity and how that nexus impacts the Global South. While the course title reads international political economy, we should acknowledge that global might be a more appropriate term, thereby including increasingly important non-state actors. Students use the concepts and theories of global political economy to analyze aid, trade, investment, development policy, monetary relations, and regional integration in order to understand how the world has worked in the past, is working now, and is likely to work in the future.
credit hours: 3
International Political and Economic Relations