Illustrative Courses: International Development

These are illustrative but not comprehensive lists of courses that may be applied to MSFS concentrations, as of December, 2011. Courses beginning with "MSFS" are courses sponsored directly by the Master of Science in Foreign Service. The others are a few examples of the many courses in other Georgetown Departments and Programs that could be applied to the concentration.

Please note that the following courses are a snapshot of offerings at the time they are posted. This list will change over time as new courses are rotated in and other courses are removed. You may wish to check back each semester for the most current representative list of courses.

Required Courses and Workshops

MSFS-512 Development Orthodoxies
MSFS-513 Development Economics

MSFS-720 Workshop: Managing Risk
MSFS-733 Workshop: Policy Innovation & Coalition Management

MSFS-747 Workshop: the Business of Development

Economics and Social Development

 

MSFS 538 Small- & Medium-Enterprise Development
MSFS-540 Social Entrepreneurship
MSFS-552 Emerging Issues in Africa

MSFS-558 The Political Economy of Global Climate Change
MSFS-581 Corporate Social Responsibility in the 21st Century

MSFS-594 International Financial Institutions

MSFS-599 Science, Technology and Development

MSFS-609 Development and Demography in Asia

MSFS-613 Comparative Regional Economic Development
MSFS-615 Global Health, Governance and Diplomacy

MSFS-634 The BRICs and the World Economy

MSFS-658 Microfinance I

MSFS-662 Econometrics for Policy-Makers

MSFS-679 Financial Regulation and Reform in Developing Countries
INAF-594 Business and Investment Negotiations
INAF 648 International Migration and Development

GHDP-511 Social Enterprise and Development (Wise)

GHDP-514 Food, Agriculture and Rural Livelihoods (Nygard)

GHDP-516 Education and Human Development (Sprague and Van Dusen)

GHDP-518 Health Economics and financing (Lewis)

GHDP-521 Small and Medium Enterprise Development (Wise)

 

Conflict and Humanitarian Response

 

MSFS-582 Identify and Conflict
MSFS-633 Complex Emergencies: Asia and Beyond
MSFS-638 Conflict Management and International Security
INAF-649 Great Famines, Humanitarian Assistance, & War

INAF-698 Intro. to Humanitarian Crises
GOVT-581 Introduction to Conflict Resolutin Skills
GOVT-582 Conflict and State formation in Africa

 

Governance and Political Development

 

MSFS-537 Practical Evaluation
MSFS-545 Information Technologies, Innovation and Governance
MSFS-551 Business and the State in African Development
MSFS-597 Strategy: Security, Development and Business
MSFS-647 Change, Power and Media in the Arab World
MSFS-657 Good Governance and Capable States

MSFS-688 Human Rights and War

GHDP-512 Governance and Service Delivery:  Health, Education and Reform

GHDP-520 Development and Foreign Assistance

GOVT-550 Democratic Change: Policy, Practice, Politics

GOVT-645 Theories of Political Development

GOVT-658 Politics of Sub-Sahara Africa