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International Development

This concentration focuses on issues typical of low income countries, as they relate to infrastructure and housing policies, urban and regional development, and poverty alleviation with a focus on the legal, institutional and regulatory enabling framework for development.

Faculty Advisors

• Charisma Acey
• Burkhard von Rabenau

Required Courses

• CRP 741: Urban Sector and Policy Planning for Developing Countries

Studio (select one)

• CRP 749: Studio in Planning for Developing Countries

Analytic Course (select one)

• CRP 607: Fundamentals of Geographic Information Systems

Elective Courses

• CRP 697: Study Abroad on Sustainability
• CRP 753: Outlines of Regional Planning
• CRP 881: Foundations of Spatial Modeling in Planning
• ECON 515: World Economic Development in Historical Perspective I
• ECON 516: World Economic Development in Historical Perspective II
• ECON 550: Economic Development
• ECON 556: Cooperation and Conflict in the Global Economy
• ECON 790: Urban Economics
• ECON 812: Economic Development in Historical Perspective
• GEOG 800.01: Theory of Regional Development
• GEOG 850.03: Third World Urbanization
• AEDE 535: Economic Development Processes in Developing Countries
• AEDE 536: Economic Development of Sub-Saharan Africa
• AEDE 537: Middle Eastern Economic Development
• AEDE 538: Latin American Economic Development
• AEDE 831: Resource Economics
• AEDE 833: Economic Development Theory and Policy
• AAAS 725: Political Development of Sub-Saharan Africa
• AAAS 765: African Social Movements in the Age of Globalization