International Development Studies Joint Honours Component (B.A.)
36 credits · Faculty of Arts · 2026-2027 catalogue
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Required Courses (12 credits)
- ECON 208 Microeconomic Analysis and Applications (3 credits) · Offered: Summer, Fall, Winter
- ECON 313 Economic Development 1 (3 credits) · Offered: Summer, Fall, Winter
- INTD 200 Introduction to International Development (3 credits) · Offered: Fall, Winter
- INTD 498 Honours Seminar in International Development (3 credits) · Offered: Fall, Winter
Complementary Courses (24 credits)
6 credits from the following two Introductory Categories.
Culture, Populations and Development (3 credits)
3 credits from the following:
- ANTH 202 Socio-Cultural Anthropology (3 credits) · Offered: Fall
- ANTH 207 Ethnography Through Film (3 credits) · Offered: Summer, Fall
- ANTH 212 Anthropology of Development (3 credits) · Offered: Winter
- GEOG 216 Geography of the World Economy (3 credits) · Offered: Fall
- GEOG 217 Cities in the Modern World (3 credits) · Offered: Winter
- INTD 350 Culture and Development (3 credits) · Offered: Winter
Politics, Society and Development (3 credits)
3 credits from the following:
- POLI 227 Introduction to Comparative Politics - Global South (3 credits) · Offered: Winter
- POLI 243 International Politics of Economic Relations (3 credits) · Offered: Summer, Winter
- POLI 244 International Politics: State Behaviour (3 credits) · Offered: Fall
- POLI 245 Introduction aux relationsinternationales (3 credits) · Not scheduled for 2026–2027
- SOCI 254 Development and Underdevelopment (3 credits) · Offered: Winter
Methods (6 credits)
6 credits from the following: When selecting the Methods courses, students must consult with the IDS Adviser. They must also consult with the most recent Faculty of Arts policy course overlap: https://www.mcgill.ca/study/faculties/arts/undergraduate/ug_arts_course_
Anthropology
- ANTH 358 The Process of Anthropological Research (3 credits) · Offered: Fall
Economics
- ECON 227D1 Economic Statistics (3 credits) · Offered: Fall
- ECON 227D2 Economic Statistics (3 credits) · Offered: Winter
- ECON 437 Methods for Causal Inference (3 credits) · Offered: Winter
International Development Studies
Political Science
- POLI 210 Political Science Research Methods (3 credits) · Offered: Fall
Sociology
Thematic (12 credits)
12 credits from the following:
African Studies
- AFRI 200 Introduction to African Studies (3 credits) · Offered: Fall
Agriculture
Agricultural Economics
Anthropology
- ANTH 206 Environment and Culture (3 credits) · Not scheduled for 2026–2027
- ANTH 209 Anthropology of Religion (3 credits) · Offered: Winter
- ANTH 214 Violence, Warfare, Culture (3 credits) · Not scheduled for 2026–2027
- ANTH 222 Legal Anthropology (3 credits) · Offered: Winter
- ANTH 227 Medical Anthropology (3 credits) · Offered: Fall
- ANTH 302 New Horizons in Medical Anthropology (3 credits) · Not scheduled for 2026–2027
- ANTH 304 Chinese Culture in Ethnography and Film (3 credits) · Offered: Fall
- ANTH 308 Political Anthropology 01 (3 credits) · Offered: Winter
- ANTH 318 Globalization and Religion (3 credits) · Offered: Winter
- ANTH 322 Social Change in Modern Africa (3 credits) · Offered: Winter
- ANTH 326 Anthropology of Latin America (3 credits) · Not scheduled for 2026–2027
- ANTH 327 Anthropology of South Asia (3 credits) · Offered: Fall
- ANTH 338 Indigenous Studies of Anthropology (3 credits) · Offered: Fall
- ANTH 339 Ecological Anthropology (3 credits) · Offered: Winter
- ANTH 343 Anthropology and the Animal (3 credits) · Offered: Winter
- ANTH 355 Theories of Culture and Society (3 credits) · Offered: Winter
- ANTH 418 Environment and Development (3 credits) · Offered: Fall
- ANTH 438 Topics in Medical Anthropology (3 credits) · Offered: Winter
- ANTH 512 Political Ecology (3 credits) · Not scheduled for 2026–2027
- ANTH 575 Concepts of Race (3 credits) · Not scheduled for 2026–2027
Canadian Studies
- CANS 315 Indigenous Art and Culture (3 credits) · Offered: Fall
East Asian Studies
- EAST 211 Introduction: East Asian Culture: China (3 credits) · Offered: Winter
- EAST 213 Introduction: East Asian Culture: Korea (3 credits) · Offered: Fall
- EAST 388 Asian Migrations and Diasporas (3 credits) · Offered: Fall, Winter
- EAST 515 Seminar: Beyond Orientalism (3 credits) · Not scheduled for 2026–2027
Economics
- ECON 209 Macroeconomic Analysis and Applications (3 credits) · Offered: Summer, Fall, Winter
- ECON 223 Political Economy of Trade Policy (3 credits) · Not scheduled for 2026–2027
- ECON 314 Economic Development 2 (3 credits) · Offered: Fall
- ECON 326 Ecological Economics (3 credits) · Offered: Winter
- ECON 347 Economics of Climate Change (3 credits) · Offered: Winter
- ECON 416 Topics in Economic Development 2 (3 credits) · Offered: Winter
- ECON 473 Income Distribution (3 credits) · Offered: Winter
English
Geography
- GEOG 221 Environment and Health (3 credits) · Offered: Fall
- GEOG 302 Environmental Management 1 (3 credits) · Offered: Fall
- GEOG 303 Health Geography (3 credits) · Offered: Winter
- GEOG 310 Development and Livelihoods (3 credits) · Not scheduled for 2026–2027
- GEOG 311 Economic Geography (3 credits) · Offered: Winter
- GEOG 325 New Master-Planned Cities (3 credits) · Offered: Winter
- GEOG 360 Analyzing Sustainability (3 credits) · Offered: Winter
- GEOG 403 Global Health and Environmental Change (3 credits) · Not scheduled for 2026–2027
- GEOG 408 Geography of Development (3 credits) · Offered: Fall
- GEOG 409 Geographies of Developing Asia (3 credits) · Offered: Fall
- GEOG 418 Geographies of Race (3 credits) · Offered: Winter
- GEOG 425 Southeast Asia Urban Field Studies (3 credits) · Not scheduled for 2026–2027
- GEOG 510 Humid Tropical Environments (3 credits) · Offered: Winter
History
- HIST 200 Introduction to African History (3 credits) · Not scheduled for 2026–2027
- HIST 201 Modern African History (3 credits) · Offered: Winter
- HIST 206 Indian Ocean World History (3 credits) · Not scheduled for 2026–2027
- HIST 208 Introduction to East Asian History (3 credits) · Offered: Fall
- HIST 209 Introduction to South Asian History (3 credits) · Offered: Fall
- HIST 210 Introduction to Latin American History (3 credits) · Offered: Fall
- HIST 213 World History, 600-2000 (3 credits) · Offered: Summer, Fall
- HIST 218 Modern East Asian History (3 credits) · Offered: Winter
- HIST 223 Indigenous Peoples and Empires (3 credits) · Offered: Winter
- HIST 240 Modern History of Islamic Movements (3 credits) · Offered: Fall
- HIST 317 Themes in Indian Ocean World History (3 credits) · Not scheduled for 2026–2027
- HIST 326 History of the Soviet Union (3 credits) · Not scheduled for 2026–2027
- HIST 328 Themes in Modern Chinese History (3 credits) · Not scheduled for 2026–2027
- HIST 333 Indigenous Peoples and French (3 credits) · Offered: Fall
- HIST 338 Twentieth-Century China (3 credits) · Offered: Fall
- HIST 340 History of Modern Egypt (3 credits) · Not scheduled for 2026–2027
- HIST 341 Themes in South Asian History (3 credits) · Offered: Winter
- HIST 360 Latin America since 1825 (3 credits) · Not scheduled for 2026–2027
- HIST 361 Topics in Canadian Regional History (3 credits) · Not scheduled for 2026–2027
- HIST 363 Canada 1870-1914 (3 credits) · Not scheduled for 2026–2027
- HIST 366 Themes in Latin American History (3 credits) · Offered: Fall, Winter
- HIST 382 History of South Africa (3 credits) · Not scheduled for 2026–2027
- HIST 389 Topics: African Country Survey (3 credits) · Offered: Fall
- HIST 408 Selected Topics in Indigenous History (3 credits) · Not scheduled for 2026–2027
- HIST 409 Topics in Latin American History (3 credits) · Offered: Fall
- HIST 439 History of Women in China (3 credits) · Not scheduled for 2026–2027
- HIST 528 Indian Ocean World Slave Trade (3 credits) · Offered: Fall
Indigenous Studies
International Development Studies
- INTD 250 History of Development (3 credits) · Offered: Winter
- INTD 350 Culture and Development (3 credits) · Offered: Winter
- INTD 352 Disasters and Development (3 credits) · Not scheduled for 2026–2027
- INTD 354 Civil Society and Development (3 credits) · Offered: Fall
- INTD 360 Environmental Challenges in Development (3 credits) · Not scheduled for 2026–2027
- INTD 362 Political Ecologies of Development (3 credits) · Offered: Winter
- INTD 364 Climate Change, Culture and Power (3 credits) · Offered: Fall
- INTD 397 Topics in International Development (3 credits) · Offered: Summer, Fall, Winter
- INTD 398 Topics in Conflict and Development (3 credits) · Offered: Fall, Winter
- INTD 490 Development Research Project (3 credits) · Offered: Summer, Fall, Winter
- INTD 491 Honours Thesis (3 credits) · Offered: Fall, Winter
- INTD 497 Advanced Topics in International Development (3 credits) · Offered: Fall, Winter
- INTD 499 Internship: International Development Studies (3 credits) · Offered: Fall
Islamic Studies
- ISLA 200 Islamic Civilization (3 credits) · Offered: Winter
- ISLA 210 Muslim Societies (3 credits) · Offered: Fall, Winter
- ISLA 305 Topics in Islamic History (3 credits) · Not scheduled for 2026–2027
- ISLA 310 Women in Islam (3 credits) · Not scheduled for 2026–2027
- ISLA 311 History of the City-Islamic World (3 credits) · Offered: Winter
- ISLA 325 Introduction to Shi'i Islam (3 credits) · Offered: Winter
- ISLA 330 Islamic Mysticism: Sufism (3 credits) · Offered: Winter
- ISLA 355 Modern History of the Middle East (3 credits) · Not scheduled for 2026–2027
- ISLA 360 Islam and Politics (3 credits) · Offered: Winter
- ISLA 365 Middle East Since the 1970's (3 credits) · Not scheduled for 2026–2027
- ISLA 370 The Qur’an: History and Interpretation (3 credits) · Not scheduled for 2026–2027
- ISLA 383 Central Questions in Islamic Law (3 credits) · Not scheduled for 2026–2027
- ISLA 385 Poetics and Politics in Arabic Literature (3 credits) · Offered: Fall
- ISLA 388 Persian Literature (3 credits) · Offered: Fall
- ISLA 390 Islamic Reform and Radicalism: Middle East (3 credits) · Not scheduled for 2026–2027
- ISLA 392 Arabic Literature as World Literature (3 credits) · Not scheduled for 2026–2027
- ISLA 411 History: Middle-East 1918-1945 (3 credits) · Offered: Winter
- ISLA 415 Modern Iran: Anthropological Approach (3 credits) · Not scheduled for 2026–2027
- ISLA 421 Islamic Culture - Indian Subcontinent (3 credits) · Not scheduled for 2026–2027
- ISLA 430 Islamdom: Baghdad to Cordoba (3 credits) · Offered: Fall
Latin American and Caribbean Studies
- LACS 497 Research Seminar: Latin America and the Caribbean (3 credits) · Offered: Winter
Management Core
- MGCR 382 International Business (3 credits) · Offered: Fall, Winter
Management, Organizational Behaviour
- ORGB 380 Cross Cultural Management (3 credits) · Offered: Summer, Fall, Winter
Management Policy
- MGPO 435 The Origins of Capitalism (3 credits) · Offered: Winter
- MGPO 438 Social Entrepreneurship and Innovation (3 credits) · Offered: Fall
- MGPO 440 Strategies for Sustainability (3 credits) · Offered: Fall, Winter
- MGPO 469 Managing Globalization (3 credits) · Offered: Fall
- MGPO 475 Strategies for Developing Countries (3 credits) · Offered: Fall
- MGPO 402 Dynamic Cities (3 credits) · Not scheduled for 2026–2027
Nutrition
- NUTR 501 Nutrition in the Majority World (3 credits) · Offered: Fall
Political Science
- POLI 319 Politics of Latin America (3 credits) · Offered: Winter
- POLI 322 Political Change in South Asia (3 credits) · Offered: Fall
- POLI 324 Comparative Politics of Africa (3 credits) · Offered: Fall
- POLI 338 Topics in Comparative Politics 1 (3 credits) · Offered: Summer
- POLI 340 Comparative Politics of the Middle East (3 credits) · Offered: Fall
- POLI 341 Foreign Policy: The Middle East (3 credits) · Offered: Fall
- POLI 345 International Organizations (3 credits) · Offered: Winter
- POLI 347 Arab-Israel Conflict, Crisis, Peace (3 credits) · Offered: Winter
- POLI 349 Foreign Policy: Asia (3 credits) · Offered: Winter
- POLI 350 Global Environmental Politics (3 credits) · Offered: Winter
- POLI 352 International Policy/Foreign Policy: Africa (3 credits) · Offered: Winter
- POLI 359 Topics in International Politics 1 (3 credits) · Not scheduled for 2026–2027
- POLI 369 Politics of Southeast Asia (3 credits) · Offered: Winter
- POLI 372 Indigenous Peoples and the Canadian State (3 credits) · Not scheduled for 2026–2027
- POLI 380 Contemporary Chinese Politics (3 credits) · Offered: Winter
- POLI 381 Politics in Japan and South Korea (3 credits) · Offered: Winter
- POLI 422 Advanced Topics in Comparative Politics 1 (3 credits) · Not scheduled for 2026–2027
- POLI 423 Politics of Ethno-Nationalism (3 credits) · Not scheduled for 2026–2027
- POLI 435 Identity and Inequality (3 credits) · Not scheduled for 2026–2027
- POLI 441 International Political Economy: Trade (3 credits) · Not scheduled for 2026–2027
- POLI 442 International Relations of Ethnic Conflict (3 credits) · Offered: Fall
- POLI 445 International Political Economy: Monetary Relations (3 credits) · Offered: Winter
- POLI 450 Peacebuilding (3 credits) · Not scheduled for 2026–2027
- POLI 476 Religion and Politics (3 credits) · Not scheduled for 2026–2027
Population and Global Health
- GPHL 500 Critical Perspectives in Global Health (3 credits) · Offered: Fall
Religious Studies
- RELG 253 Religions of East Asia (3 credits) · Offered: Fall
- RELG 309 World Religions and Cultures They Create (3 credits) · Offered: Winter
- RELG 331 Religion and Globalization (3 credits) · Offered: Fall
- RELG 370 Religion and Human Rights (3 credits) · Offered: Fall
- RELG 375 Religion, Politics and Society (3 credits) · Offered: Winter
Sociology
- SOCI 212 International Migration (3 credits) · Offered: Fall
- SOCI 234 Population and Society (3 credits) · Not scheduled for 2026–2027
- SOCI 307 Globalization (3 credits) · Not scheduled for 2026–2027
- SOCI 309 Health and Illness (3 credits) · Offered: Winter
- SOCI 370 Sociology: Gender and Development (3 credits) · Offered: Fall
- SOCI 400 Comparative Migration and Citizenship (3 credits) · Not scheduled for 2026–2027
- SOCI 446 Colonialism and Society (3 credits) · Offered: Fall
- SOCI 519 Gender and Globalization (3 credits) · Offered: Fall
- SOCI 520 Migration and Immigrant Groups (3 credits) · Offered: Winter
- SOCI 550 Developing Societies (3 credits) · Not scheduled for 2026–2027
Social Work
Urban Planning
- URBP 530 Urban Infrastructure and Services in International Context (3 credits) · Not scheduled for 2026–2027
Course Selection Guidelines for the Overall Program
At least 18 of the 36 credits must be at the 300 level or above. Nine credits must be at the 400 level or above. At least 12 credits must be from INTD courses. Students cannot take more than 12 credits in any one discipline other than the INTD discipline. Students who are pursuing a Field Studies program can have a portion of their Field Studies courses count towards their IDS program. See Adviser in office for details. NOTE: Students in the Econ-IDS Joint Honours program are required to take ECON 257D1 Economic Statistics - Honours. / ECON 257D2 Economic Statistics - Honours. and therefore cannot also take ECON 227D1 Economic Statistics. / ECON 227D2 Economic Statistics. as part of their IDS program requirements.
Related programs
- International Development Studies Major Concentration (B.A.)
- International Development Studies Honours (B.A.)
- International Development Studies Minor Concentration (B.A.)
- International Development Studies Major Concentration (B.A. & Sc.)
- International Development Studies Joint Honours Component (B.A. & Sc.)
- International Development Studies Minor Concentration (B.A. & Sc.)
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