The Department of Geography offers a graduate certificate in development studies. Development studies is a well-established, interdisciplinary field of research with institutional centers at a number of major universities and several scholarly journals dedicated to its study. The certificate provides training in development studies to graduate students through a structured yet flexible program built around courses taught by CU faculty in a number of social science departments.
Because development issues such as agrarian change, labor migration, new social movements, industrial growth, urban planning and natural resource use cut across disciplinary divides, the study of development demands interdisciplinary approaches.
For more information, visit the department's Graduate Certificate in Development Studies webpage.
Requirements
Admission Requirements
Currently enrolled graduate students at CU and nondegree ACCESS students with bachelor's degrees may pursue the development studies certificate by completing the four required courses with a grade of B or higher.
For more information, please contact the certificate director, Jennifer Fluri or visit the department website.
Required Courses and Credits
The certificate requires the completion of 12 credits (four courses), at least two but not more than three of which should be taken in the Department of Geography.
| Code | Title | Credit Hours |
|---|---|---|
| Core Requirement | ||
| All students must take the core Geography class in development: | ||
| GEOG 5632 | Development Geography | 3 |
| Geography Seminar Requirement | 3 | |
| All students must take one additional Geography seminar from among the following: | ||
| Seminar: Topics in Economic Geography | ||
| Seminar: Political Ecology | ||
| Population Geography | ||
| Migration, Immigrant Adaptation, and Development | ||
| Additional Seminar Requirements | 6 | |
| In addition, students should complete 2 additional seminars from the following list, at least one of which should be outside of Geography: | ||
| Seminar: Topics in Economic Geography | ||
| Seminar: Political Ecology | ||
| Population Geography | ||
| Migration, Immigrant Adaptation, and Development | ||
| Special Topics: Geography (with approval from the certificate program director) | ||
| Readings in World History | ||
| Modern China: Collapse of Imperial Brilliance, 1644-1949 | ||
| Colloquium in Modern Asian History | ||
| Seminar: Current Research Topics in Cultural Anthropology 1 | ||
| Human Ecology: Cultural Aspects | ||
| Explorations in Anthropology (Conservation and Indigenous Peoples) | ||
| Cross-Cultural Aspects of Socioeconomic Development | ||
| Communication and International Development | ||
| Topics in Sex and Gender (Gender in Globalization) | ||
| Foundations of Environmental Sociology | ||
| Inequality, Democracy, and the Environment | ||
| Population and Environment | ||
| Population Issues, Problems, and Policies | ||
| Reducing the Environmental Impact of Food Systems: Evidence-Based Solutions | ||
| Introduction to Food Systems Internationally | ||
| Comparative Political Economy | ||
| Seminar: Global Political Economy | ||
| Seminar: Latin American Politics | ||
| Seminar in Political and Economic Development | ||
| Public Policy and the Governance of Natural Resources | ||
| Feminist Theories | ||
| Feminist Methodology | ||
| Special Topics in Gender and Sexuality Studies (only certain topics apply) 2 | ||
| Total Credit Hours | 12 | |
| 1 | One of the following sections: Section 2 Human Ecology; Section 3 Space, Place and Capitalism; Section 5 National and Cultural Citizenship; Section 9 Ethnographies of Globalization or Ethnographies of Latin America; Section 12 Modernity; Section 13 Anthropology of Neoliberalism |
| 2 | One of the following sections: Gender – Global Perspective; Global Gender Issues; Gender and Global Human Rights |
Plan(s) of Study
For more information, visit the department's Graduate Certificate in Development Studies webpage.