International Development Studies
Welcome to International Development Studies (ISID)
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| International Development Studies (IDS) provides students with a critical understanding of international developoment issues through exposure to a variety of academic disciplines, cultures and concerns spanning the social sciences, humanities, environmental science and fieldwork opportunities locally and internationally
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A variety of scholarly and literary sources are used to provide the student with a varied and balanced view of this complex track. |
This track within International Studies is intended for self-motivated students with a strong sense of social responsibility and willingness to undertake a challenging course of study. Students will assemble a portfolio as they progress through the major to be presented for review in their final year.
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Track Coordinator
Leopoldo Rodriguez Ph.D. leopoldo@pdx.edu
East Hall 346 (503) 725-8245
For an associated faculty member and/or PSU faculty members with expertise, please visit our International Development Studies Faculty page.
For a different coordinator, please visit our Faculty page.
Regional Focus
At least 24 upper-division credits (with a grade C or above) from adviser-approved, area-specific courses appropriate to the student's regional focus; selected from departments and programs in the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, the School of Business Administration, the Graduate School of Education, the School of Fine and Performing Arts, and the College of Urban and Public Affairs.
Lists of appropriate Regional Focus courses for the current term are also available in EH 341.
Foreign Language
A common misconception is that globalization has reduced the value of knowledge of languages other than English.
The International Studies major requires that students demonstrate third-year proficiency in one language appropriate to the regional focus. For students taking courses at PSU, third-year proficiency is defined by successful completion of the terminal course in the third-year language sequence or completion of an upper division equivalent. For students admitted to PSU in Fall 2007, or later, the terminal course for most languages is 303.
***Since this requirement is met by proficiency and not credit hours, you may have learned the foreign language outside of a classroom, for example, from relatives or by living abroad. If this is the case, please contact the World Languages and Literatures department for information on how to satisfy this requirement by third-year proficiency demonstration.
Adviser-Approved IDS Languages (Determined by Region of Study):
Recommended Foundation Courses
- ANTH 103: Intro to Social/Cultural Anthropology
- ECON 201: Contemporary Economic Issues
- ECON 202: Principles of Economics (Macro)*
- UNST/ESR 224: Environmental Sustainability
- GEOG 230: Environment and Society
- HST 103: History of Western City (Modern era)
- INTL 2--: Introduction to a regional area of study
- PS 103: State of the World
- SOC 200: Introduction to Sociology
- SP 215: Intro to Intercultural Communication
- UNST 220: Understanding Communities
Expected Learning Outcomes
IDS majors will
- Demonstrate knowledte of the history and theory of development
- Articulate the interplay between culture, political, and social systems
- Gain insight into the complexity of relationships between governments, NGOs, and international organizations of development
- Apply an interdisciplinary approach to analysis of international development and the strategies for implementing development
Students will have the opportunity to demonstrate and to reflect on these outcomes in a portfolio of their work that they will assemble
