• Name: ______ID: ______
  • HonorsProgram Requirements STREAM 2 e-mail: ______

Honours students must maintain a GPA of 3.30 in their program courses and, according to Faculty regulations, a minimum CGPA of 3.00 in general.

  • Course Selection Guidelines for the Overall Program
  • 1. In their complete program (57 credits), students must take at least 12 credits in at least one discipline, but cannot take more than 21 credits in any one discipline.
    2. At least 30 of the 57 credits must be at the 300 level or above; 9 credits of these must be at the 400 level or above. Students may complete fieldwork, or an honours thesis, or an honours thesis with fieldwork (INTD 490 or INTD 491 or INTD 492) as part of the 400-level requirements of their stream.
    3. In the final year (U3), no program courses may be taken below the 300 level.
    4. Students are permitted to take up to 3 credits maximum from another Stream Complementary course list, to count towards their chosen Stream Complementary course list.

Required Courses (15 credits)

  • ECON 208 Microeconomic Analysis and Applications (3 credits)

Offered by: Economics (Faculty of Arts)

Overview

Economics (Arts) : A university-level introduction to demand and supply, consumer behaviour, production theory, market structures and income distribution theory.

Terms: Fall 2015, Winter 2016

Instructors: Mayssun El-Attar Vilalta (Fall) Paul Dickinson (Winter)

  • Restriction: Not open to students who have taken or are taking ECON 230 or ECON 250
  • ECON 313 Economic Development 1 (3 credits)

Offered by: Economics (Faculty of Arts)

Overview

Economics (Arts) : Microeconomic theories of economic development and empirical evidence on population, labour, firms, poverty. Inequality and environment.

Terms: Fall 2015, Winter 2016

Instructors: John C Kurien (Winter)

  • Prerequisite: ECON 208 and either ECON 209 or one development course.
  • Restriction: Not open to students who have taken 154-313D.
  • ECON 314 Economic Development 2 (3 credits)

Offered by: Economics (Faculty of Arts)

Overview

Economics (Arts) : Macroeconomic development issues, including theories of growth, public finance, debt, currency crises, corruption, structural adjustment, democracy and global economic organization.

Terms: Fall 2015, Winter 2016

Instructors: John C Kurien (Winter)

  • Prerequisite: ECON 313
  • Restriction: Not open to students who have taken 154-313D
  • INTD 200 Introduction to International Development (3 credits)

Offered by: Inst for the St of Development (Faculty of Arts)

Overview

International Development : An interdisciplinary introduction to the field of International Development Studies focusing on the theory and practice of development. It examines various approaches to international development, including past and present relationships between developed and underdeveloped societies, and pays particular attention to power and resource distribution globally and within nations.

Terms: Fall 2015

Instructors: Kazue Takamura (Fall)

  • INTD 497 Research Seminar on International Development (3 credits)

Complementary Courses (42 credits)

Introductory

6 credits from the following introductory courses (only one course from each discipline may be counted):

  • ANTH 202 Socio-Cultural Anthropology (3 credits)

Offered by: Anthropology (Faculty of Arts)

Overview

Anthropology : An introduction to ways of understanding what it means to be human from the perspective of socio-cultural anthropology. Students will be introduced to diverse approaches to this question through engagement with a wide range of ethnographic cases.

Terms: Fall 2015

Instructors: There are no professors associated with this course for the 2015-2016 academic year.

  • Fall
  • ANTH 212 Anthropology of Development (3 credits)

Offered by: Anthropology (Faculty of Arts)

Overview

Anthropology : Processes of developmental change, as they affect small communities in the Third World and in unindustrialized parts of developed countries. Problems of technological change, political integration, population growth, industrialization, urban growth, social services, infrastructure and economic dependency.

Terms: Winter 2016

Instructors: There are no professors associated with this course for the 2015-2016 academic year.

  • Winter
  • GEOG 210 Global Places and Peoples (3 credits)

Offered by: Geography (Faculty of Science)

Overview

Geography : Introduction to key themes in human geography. Maps and the making, interpretation and contestation of landscapes, 'place', and territory. Investigation of globalization and the spatial organization of human geo-politics, and urban and rural environments.

Terms: Winter 2016

Instructors: Jon Unruh, Brian Robinson (Winter)

  • Winter
  • 3 hours
  • GEOG 216 Geography of the World Economy (3 credits)

Offered by: Geography (Faculty of Science)

Overview

Geography : The course introduces the geography of the world economic system. It describes the spatial distribution of economic activities and examines the factors which influence their changing location. Case studies from both "developed" and "developing" countries will test the different geographical theories presented in lectures.

Terms: Fall 2015

Instructors: Oliver T Coomes, Sebastien Breau (Fall)

  • Fall
  • 3 hours
  • POLI 227 Developing Areas/Introduction (3 credits)

Offered by: Political Science (Faculty of Arts)

Overview

Political Science : An introduction to Third World politics. A comparative examination of the legacies of colonialism, the achievement of independence, and contemporary dynamics of political and socio-economic development in Africa, Asia and Latin America. Topics include modernization, dependency, state-building and national integration, revolution, the role of the military, and democratization.

Terms: Winter 2016

Instructors: Philip Oxhorn (Winter)

  • Note: The area in the field of Comparative Politics is Developing Areas.
  • SOCI 254 Development and Underdevelopment (3 credits)

Method and Language

12 credits of Method and Language courses selected as follows:

3-6 credits from the following Method courses selected in consultation with the International Development Studies Adviser.

  • ANTH 344 Quantitative Approaches to Anthropology (3 credits)

Offered by: Anthropology (Faculty of Arts)

Overview

Anthropology : A non-statistics course designed to understand and critically evaluate quantitatively based arguments encountered in the literature of all branches of Anthropology.

Terms: This course is not scheduled for the 2015-2016 academic year.

Instructors: There are no professors associated with this course for the 2015-2016 academic year.

  • Fall
  • Prerequisite: ANTH 201 or ANTH 202 or ANTH 205 or permission of instructor.
  • Restriction: Limited to students in Anthropology programs.
  • ECON 227D1 Economic Statistics (3 credits)

Offered by: Economics (Faculty of Arts)

Overview

Economics (Arts) : Distributions, averages, dispersions, sampling, testing, estimation, correlation, regression, index numbers, trends and seasonals.

Terms: Fall 2015

Instructors: Kenneth MacKenzie (Fall)

  • Students must register for both ECON 227D1 and ECON 227D2.
  • No credit will be given for this course unless both ECON 227D1 and ECON 227D2 are successfully completed in consecutive terms
  • ECON 227D1 and ECON 227D2 together are equivalent to ECON 227
  • You may not be able to receive credit for this course and other statistic courses. Be sure to check the Course Overlap section under Faculty Degree Requirements in the Arts or Science section of the Calendar.
  • ECON 227D2 Economic Statistics (3 credits)

Offered by: Economics (Faculty of Arts)

Overview

Economics (Arts) : See ECON 227D1 for course description.

Terms: Winter 2016

Instructors: Kenneth MacKenzie (Winter)

  • Prerequisite: ECON 227D1
  • No credit will be given for this course unless both ECON 227D1 and ECON 227D2 are successfully completed in consecutive terms
  • ECON 227D1 and ECON 227D2 together are equivalent to ECON 227
  • You may not be able to receive credit for this course and other statistic courses. Be sure to check the Course Overlap section under Faculty Degree Requirements in the Arts or Science section of the Calendar.
  • POLI 311 Techniques of Empirical Research (3 credits)

Offered by: Political Science (Faculty of Arts)

Overview

Political Science : An introduction to empirical political research. Among the topics considered are the formulation of research problems, the selection of samples, interviewing, questionnaire construction, and the analysis and interpretation of data.

Terms: Fall 2015

Instructors: Elisabeth Gidengil (Fall)

  • SOCI 350 Statistics in Social Research (3 credits)

Offered by: Sociology (Faculty of Arts)

Overview

Sociology (Arts) : This is an introductory course in descriptive and inferential statistics. The course is designed to help students develop a critical attitude toward statistical argument. It serves as a background for further statistics courses, helping to provide the intuition which can sometimes be lost amid the formulas.

Terms: Fall 2015

Instructors: Kenneth MacKenzie (Fall)

  • Prerequisite: SOCI 211
  • Restriction: Not open to students who have taken PSYC 204, PSYC 305 or ECON 227
  • You may not be able to receive credit for this course and other statistic courses. Be sure to check the Course Overlap section under Faculty Degree Requirements in the Arts or Science section of the Calendar.
  • SOCI 461 Quantitative Data Analysis (3 credits)

Offered by: Sociology (Faculty of Arts)

Overview

Sociology (Arts) : This course blends theory and applications in regression analysis. It focuses on fitting a straight line regression using matrix algebra, extending models for multivariate analysis and discusses problems in the use of regression analysis, providing criteria for model building and selection, and using statistical software to apply statistics efficiently.

Terms: Winter 2016

Instructors: Aniruddha Das (Winter)

  • Prerequisite: SOCI 350
  • You may not be able to get credit for this course and other statistic courses. Be sure to check the Course Overlap section under Faculty Degree Requirements in the Arts or Science section of the Calendar.
  • SOCI 477 Qualitative Methods in Sociology (3 credits)

Offered by: Sociology (Faculty of Arts)

Overview

Sociology (Arts) : Introduction to qualitative research methods. Students will be exposed to various types of data collection (e.g., textual, observational) and data analysis techniques (e.g., in vivo coding) for qualitative data in an experiential, hands-on fashion.

Terms: Fall 2015

Instructors: Zoua Vang (Fall)

  • Prerequisite: SOCI 211

6-9 credits of Language courses.

Students are required to master a language appropriate to an area of the developing world in which they have a particular interest. Among the languages that are included are: Arabic, Chinese, French as a Second Language, Korean, Portuguese, Spanish, Swahili and Urdu. Other language options can be approved by the Adviser. Students who already have second language capability have the option to do: 6-9 credits of another language; or additional courses taught in that language.

Streams (24 credits)

Stream 2: States and Governance

The courses in this stream focus on how political institutions shape developmental processes. Some courses analyze states and recognize how some promote development by providing diverse developmental goods while others impede development by preying on their peoples. Other courses focus on regimes and consider how political rights and participation, or their absences, affect developmental processes. Finally, several courses consider factors that make possible effective states and regimes.

Stream 2 - Anthropology

  • ANTH 342 Gender, Inequality and the State (3 credits)

Offered by: Anthropology (Faculty of Arts)

Overview

Anthropology : Comparative studies of gender in stratified societies: Asia, the Mid-East, Latin and North America. Economic, political and social manifestations of gender inequality. Oppressive and egalitarian ideologies. State and institutional policies on gender, and male-female strategies. Sexual apartheid and integration.

Terms: This course is not scheduled for the 2015-2016 academic year.

Instructors: There are no professors associated with this course for the 2015-2016 academic year.

  • Winter
  • Prerequisite: ANTH 202, or ANTH 205, or ANTH 206, or ANTH 341, or Women's Studies Minor, or permission of instructor
  • ANTH 512 Political Ecology (3 credits)

Offered by: Anthropology (Faculty of Arts)

Overview

Anthropology : Historical, theoretical and methodological development of political ecology as a field of inquiry on the interactions between society and environment, in the context of conflicts over natural resources.

Terms: Winter 2016

Instructors: Ismael Vaccaro (Winter)

  • Winter

Stream 2 - Economics

  • ECON 223 Political Economy of Trade Policy (3 credits)

Offered by: Economics (Faculty of Arts)

Overview

Economics (Arts) : The course introduces students to the economics of international trade, what constitutes good trade policy, and how trade policy is decided. The course examines Canadian trade policy since 1945, including the GATT, Auto Pact, the FTA and NAFTA, and concludes with special topics in trade policy.

Terms: Winter 2016

Instructors: Thomas James Velk (Winter)

  • Prerequisite: ECON 208

Stream 2 - International Development Studies

  • INTD 397 Topics in International Development (3 credits)

Offered by: Inst for the St of Development (Faculty of Arts)

Overview

International Development : Examines topics in specific problem areas in International Development Studies. Content varies every term.

Terms: Winter 2016

Instructors: Kazue Takamura (Winter)

  • Prerequisite: A 200 or 300 level course related to International Development, or permission of instructor.
  • INTD 490 Development Research Project (3 credits)

Offered by: Inst for the St of Development (Faculty of Arts)

Overview

International Development : Supervised reading, research project in international development. Requirements consist of a project proposal and final research report.

Terms: Fall 2015, Winter 2016

Instructors: Kazue Takamura (Fall)

  • Prerequisite: completion of ECON 313 and 3 credits of IDS Group A Complementary Courses
  • Restriction: Open only to students enrolled in International Development Studies Concentrations with prior approval of IDS program adviser and project supervisor
  • INTD 491 Honours Thesis (3 credits)

Offered by: Inst for the St of Development (Faculty of Arts)

Overview

International Development : Supervised reading, research and preparation of an undergraduate thesis under the direction of a staff member.

Terms: Fall 2015, Winter 2016

Instructors: Subho Basu, Anne Leahy, John Anthony Hall, Daviken Studnicki-Gizbert (Fall)

  • Restriction: Open only to U3 Honours and Joint Honours students.
  • INTD 492 Honours Thesis with Field Research (6 credits)

Offered by: Inst for the St of Development (Faculty of Arts)

Overview

International Development : Supervised reading, field work and research and preparation of an undergraduate thesis under the direction of a staff member.

Terms: Fall 2015, Winter 2016

Instructors: There are no professors associated with this course for the 2015-2016 academic year.

  • Requirements consist of previously approved project proposal, field component (usually carried out during the summer), and research thesis based on field work to be completed upon return.
  • Restriction: Open only to U3 Honours and Joint Honours students.
  • Restriction: Permission of an appropriate supervising instructor and program adviser required.
  • INTD 499 Internship: International Development Studies (3 credits)

Offered by: Inst for the St of Development (Faculty of Arts)

Overview

International Development : Internship with an approved host institution or organization.

Terms: Fall 2015, Winter 2016

Instructors: Nii Antiaye Addy, Manuel Balan, Taweewan Sidthidet, Kazue Takamura, Emine Sarigollu, Jon Soske, R Philip Buckley, Catherine C LeGrand, John Galaty, Matthieu Chemin, Humberto Monardes, Colin Austin Chapman, Philip Oxhorn, Bronwen Low, Fernando Nunez, David Rothwell, Amélie Quesnel Vallée, James Torczyner (Fall) Philip Oxhorn, Claudia A Mitchell (Winter)

  • Restriction: Open to U2 and U3 students with a minimum CGPA of 2.7, and permission of the departmental Internship Adviser. This course will not normally fulfill program requirements for seminar or 400-level courses. A letter from a supervisor at the institution must attest to successful completion of the student's tenure.
  • INTD 597 Seminar in International Development (3 credits)

Offered by: Inst for the St of Development (Faculty of Arts)

Overview

International Development : An interdisciplinary research seminar on topics of common interest to staff and students of the International Development Studies program. As part of their contribution, students will prepare a research paper under the supervision of one or more members of staff.

Terms: Fall 2015

Instructors: There are no professors associated with this course for the 2015-2016 academic year.

  • Prerequisites: Permission of Instructor is required. At least one 400 level course listed in their International Development Studies Stream complementary course options.
  • Restriction: Open to graduate students, final year Honours students, and other advanced undergraduates with the permission of the instructor.

Stream 2 - Islamic Studies

  • ISLA 360 Islam and Politics (3 credits)

Offered by: Islamic Studies (Faculty of Arts)

Overview

Islamic Studies : Assessment of the relationship between Islam and politics in the contemporary Middle East and Africa through various analytic themes, including political economy, social movement and gendered analysis.

Terms: This course is not scheduled for the 2015-2016 academic year.

Instructors: There are no professors associated with this course for the 2015-2016 academic year.

  • Fall
  • Prerequisite: ISLA 210 or permission of instructor.
  • ISLA 383 Central Questions in Islamic Law (3 credits)

Offered by: Islamic Studies (Faculty of Arts)

Overview

Islamic Studies : An integrative view of Islamic law in the past and present, including landmarks in Islamic legal history (e.g., sources of law; early formation; intellectual make-up; the workings of court; legal change; legal effects of colonialism; modernity and legal reform) and a structured definition of what it was/is.

Terms: Winter 2016

Instructors: Ahmed Ibrahim (Winter)

  • Winter
  • Prerequisite: ISLA 200 or permission of instructor.

Stream 2 - Latin American & Caribbean Studies

  • LACS 497 Research Seminar: Latin America and the Caribbean (3 credits)

Offered by: Inst for the St of Development (Faculty of Arts)

Overview

Latin American & Caribbean St : An interdisciplinary research seminar on topics of common interest to staff and students of the Latin-American and Caribbean Studies Program.

Terms: Winter 2016

Instructors: There are no professors associated with this course for the 2015-2016 academic year.

  • Restriction: Open to Program students and to others with permission of the Program Adviser.
  • Ordinarily offered in alternate years

Stream 2 - Political Science

  • POLI 319 Politics of Latin America (3 credits)

Offered by: Political Science (Faculty of Arts)

Overview

Political Science : This course will deal with the dynamics of political change in Latin America today.

Terms: Winter 2016

Instructors: Daniel Douek (Winter)

  • Prerequisite: A basic course in Comparative Politics or a course on the region or written permission of the instructor
  • Note: The area in the field of Comparative Politics is Developing Areas.
  • POLI 322 Political Change in South Asia (3 credits)

Offered by: Political Science (Faculty of Arts)

Overview

Political Science : Political change in South Asia in late colonial and post-colonial periods. Issues covered include social and cultural history; colonial rule, nationalism and state formation; democratic and authoritarian tendencies; economic policies and consequences; challenges to patterns of dominance and national boundaries; prospects for democracy, prosperity and equality.