International Development Studies Minor Concentration (B.A.)

18 credits · Faculty of Arts · 2026-2027 catalogue

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Required Courses (9 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

Complementary Courses (9 credits)

Thematic (9 credits)

9 credits from the following:

African Studies

  • AFRI 200 Introduction to African Studies (3 credits) · Offered: Fall

Agriculture

  • AGRI 325 Sustainable Agriculture Field Course (3 credits) · Not scheduled for 2026–2027
  • AGRI 411 Global Issues on Development, Food and Agriculture (3 credits) · Offered: Winter

Agricultural Economics

  • AGEC 430 Agriculture, Food and Resource Policy (3 credits) · Offered: Winter
  • AGEC 442 Economics of International Agricultural Development (3 credits) · Offered: Winter

Anthropology

  • ANTH 202 Socio-Cultural Anthropology (3 credits) · Offered: Fall
  • ANTH 206 Environment and Culture (3 credits) · Not scheduled for 2026–2027
  • ANTH 207 Ethnography Through Film (3 credits) · Offered: Summer, Fall
  • ANTH 209 Anthropology of Religion (3 credits) · Offered: Winter
  • ANTH 212 Anthropology of Development (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 388 Asian Migrations and Diasporas (3 credits) · Offered: Fall, Winter
  • EAST 213 Introduction: East Asian Culture: Korea (3 credits) · Offered: Fall
  • 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

  • ENGL 290 Postcolonial and World Literatures in English (3 credits) · Not scheduled for 2026–2027
  • ENGL 440 First Nations and Inuit Literature and Media (3 credits) · Not scheduled for 2026–2027

Geography

  • GEOG 216 Geography of the World Economy (3 credits) · Offered: Fall
  • GEOG 217 Cities in the Modern World (3 credits) · Offered: Winter
  • 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 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

  • INDG 200 Introduction to Indigenous Studies (3 credits) · Offered: Fall
  • INDG 420 Indigenous Food Sovereignty (3 credits) · Offered: Summer

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 356 Quantitative Methods for Development (3 credits) · Offered: Fall
  • INTD 358 Ethnographic Approaches to Development (3 credits) · Offered: Winter
  • 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 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
  • MSUS 402 Systems Thinking and Sustainability (3 credits) · Offered: Fall

Nutrition

  • NUTR 501 Nutrition in the Majority World (3 credits) · Offered: Fall

Political Science

  • 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
  • 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 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 254 Development and Underdevelopment (3 credits) · Offered: Winter
  • SOCI 307 Globalization (3 credits) · Not scheduled for 2026–2027
  • SOCI 309 Health and Illness (3 credits) · Offered: Winter
  • SOCI 365 Health and Development (3 credits) · Not scheduled for 2026–2027
  • 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

  • SWRK 400 Policy and Practice for Refugees (3 credits) · Offered: Fall
  • SWRK 532 International Social Work (3 credits) · Offered: Winter

Urban Planning

  • URBP 530 Urban Infrastructure and Services in International Context (3 credits) · Not scheduled for 2026–2027

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