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(B.A./B.Sc.)
IDS Mission Statement
The Co-operative Program in International Development Studies at University of Toronto at Scarborough, is a five year undergraduate Program which aims to provide students with a critical understanding of international development issues through exposure to a variety of academic disciplines and to another culture. The Program combines interdisciplinary academic study in the social and environmental sciences and humanities with a practical work experience in a developing country. IDS students graduate with an Honours B.A. or B.Sc. with a Specialist certification in International Development Studies.
Objectives
Enrolment in the Program is limited. Interviews are normally held from March until May for students who pass the initial screening. Admissions are granted on the basis of the applicants' academic performance, background in relevant subjects, language skills, experience or interest in international development studies and work, and a letter of reference from a high school teacher or university instructor. For information on admissions, fees, work placements and standing in the Program, please see the Calendar section Co-operative Programs: General Information, page 71.
Work Placement
This Program requires twenty courses (four years) of study and a work term of approximately eight to twelve months duration. The work term will normally begin no sooner than the end of the third year and no later than January of the fourth year of the Program.
The majority of students obtain placements with Canadian employers -- Canadian development agencies (NGO's), research institutes or private sector consulting firms. The location of the placements will vary according to each student's disciplinary and regional preferences and abilities, the availability of positions, and the practicability and safety of development work. Students who wish to carry out their placement in a developing country where there is no Canadian employer working, may be asked to finance the living allowance expenses of the placement themselves.
The IDS work placement is an integral part of the Co-op curriculum and is designed to provide students with practical hands-on experience of the development process in a Third World field setting. Students are placed as interns with Canadian or local development agencies or universities in a developing country for a 10-12 month period. Students are required to submit progress reports every 2 months and begin work on a major research project based on their work placement experience. To be eligible for placement, students must have completed 14.5 full-course equivalents including 12 IDS credits. These 12 must include 10 credits from sections A and B (of which at minimum 6.5 must be from Section A) plus regional and language requirements and the completion of the Introduction to IDS Co-op Tutorial (see below). The IDS work placement normally begins after the third year of study and requires a minimum of 2 years of residence in the Program. Extra course credit of 0.5 full-course equivalent is granted for each four-month work period. Work term credits are in addition to the 20 full-course degree requirement and are graded on a Credit, No Credit system.
In addition to submitting a detailed examination of their placement, students will participate in a one day placement de-briefing session with the IDS administrators.
Other elective credits (Section D below).
In the first two sessions of study students must complete as much of the common core program and language study as possible. Students must chose their regional and language option (Section C) no later than session 2 and their advanced option no later than the beginning of session 3. Students are also strongly advised to complete at least one full credit in core program science courses each academic session prior to placement.
Each student's program requires the annual approval of the supervisor of Studies. In addition, all credit changes must be approved by the Supervisor of Studies.
The curriculum requirements are as follows: Twenty full credits including:
A. Core Program: at least six and one half full credits from the following:
| ECMA01H | Introduction to Microeconomics |
| ECMA05H | Introduction to Macroeconomics |
| (Students may take as a substitute the mathematical versions of the above credits: ECMA04H & ECMA06) | |
| EESA01H | Introduction to Environmental Science |
| EESB04H | Principles of Hydrology |
| or | |
| EESB05H | Principles of Soil Science |
| EESC20H | Soil Erosion Control |
| FOR201H | Conservation and Management of World's Forests II (St. George) |
| IDSB01H | International Development Studies: Political Economy |
| IDSB02H | International Development Studies: Development and Environment |
| IDSC04H | Project Management I |
| POLB90H | Comparative Development in International Perspective |
| POLB91H | Comparative Development in Political Perspective |
| 0.5 FCE in Research Methods or Statistics (Possible options include ANTC60H, POLC78H, SOCB40H and/or SOCB41H and STAB22H which is recommended for students interested in the B.Sc.) | |
| [ANTC10H | Anthropology of Development |
| or | |
| POLC90H | Development Studies: Political and Historical Perspectives |
| or | |
| WSTC10H] | Women and Development |
B. Advanced Options: at least five full credits chosen from either I or II below:
NOTE: Students who follow the Environmental stream will be recommended for a B.Sc. degree and those who follow the Social Sciences stream will be recommended for the B.A. degree.
1. Social Science Stream:
Five full credits from:
| ANTB05H | African Cultures and Societies I: Survey |
| ANTB01H | Political Ecology |
| ANTB19H | Varieties of Social Life |
| ANTB20H | Culture, Politics and Globalization |
| ANTB54H | Peoples of the Middle East: An Introduction |
| ANTC06H | African Cultures and Societies II: Case Studies |
| ANTC10H | Anthropological Perspectives on Development (if not taken in the 'core') |
| ANTC14H | Feminism and Anthropology |
| ANTC15H | Genders and Sexualities |
| ANTC19H | Producing People and Things: Economics and Social Life |
| ANTC55H | Muslim Societies |
| ANTC60H | Fieldwork in Social and Cultural Anthropology |
| ANTC61H | Medical Anthropology: Illness and Healing in Cultural Perspective |
| ANTC62H | Medical Anthropology II: Biological and Demographic Perspectives |
| ANTC63H | The Anthropology of Food: Human Needs |
| ANTC64H | The Anthropology of Food: Consuming Passions |
| ECMB01H | Price Theory |
| ECMB05H | Macroeconomic Theory and Policy |
| ECO230Y | International Economic Institutions and Policy |
| ECMC66H | Economic Development |
| ECMC67H | Development Policy |
| ENGB17H | Contemporary Literature from the Caribbean |
| ENGB19H | Contemporary Literature from South Asia |
| GGRC20H | Issues in Rural Development |
| GGRC29H | Agricultural, Environment and Development |
| GGRC45H | Local Geographies of Globalization |
| CCRC46H | Tourism, Environment and Development |
| HISA03Y | The Twentieth Century World (exclusion POLB80H & POLB81H) |
| HISC50H | Africa in the Nineteenth Century |
| HISC51H | Twentieth Century Africa |
| HISC52H | A Social History of Ethiopia |
| HISC53H | Topics in Asian History |
| HISD51H | Southern Africa: Colonial Rule, Apartheid, and Liberation |
| HISD52H | East African Societies in Transition |
| HLTC02H | Women and Health: Past and Present |
| IDSC10H | Topics in International Development Studies |
| ISTB01H | International Studies and International Communications |
| IDSB04H | International Health Policy Analysis |
| IDSB05H | Economics of Small Enterprise and Micro-credit |
| IDSC05H | Ethics of Development |
| IDSC06H | Directed Research on Canadian Institutions and International Development |
| IDSC07H | Project Management II |
| INI320Y | National & International Environmental Policy Making |
| PHLB08H | Ethics and International Affairs |
| PHLC84H | Postcolonial Studies in Philosophy |
| POLB80H | Introduction to International Relations (Exclusion HISA03Y) |
| POLB81H | International Conflict and Conflict Management (Exclusion HISA03Y) |
| POLC78H | Political Analysis I |
| POLC88H | The New International Agenda |
| POLC90H | Development Studies: Political and Historical Perspectives (if not taken in the 'core') |
| POLC95H | International Political Economy of Trade |
| POLC96H | Politics and Society in the Middle East I |
| POLC97H | Politics and Society in the Middle East II |
| POLC91H | Latin America: Dictatorship and Democracy |
| POLC99H | Latin America: Politics of the Dispossessed |
| POL301Y | Government & Politics in Africa |
| POLD78H | Political Analysis II |
| POLD88H | Exploring the New International Agenda |
| POLD94H | Selected Topics on Developing Areas |
| POL445Y | Canada and the Third World |
| SOCB40H | Quantitative Methods in Social Research |
| SOCB41H | Qualitative Methods in Social Research |
| (SOEC02H | Environmental Economics) |
| WSTC10H | Women and Development (if not taken in the 'core') |
| WSTC11H | Applied Study in Women and Development |
II. Environmental Stream
Five full-credits from:
| ANTC62H | Medical Anthropology II: Biological and Demographic Perspectives |
| BGYA01H | Introductory Biology: Part I |
| BGYA02H | Introductory Biology: Part II |
| BGYB51H | Evolutionary Biology |
| BGYB52H | Ecology and Evolutionary Biology Laboratory |
| BGYC52H | Ecology Field Course |
| BIO303H | Tropical Ecology and Evolution |
| BGYC50H | Foundations of Epidemiology |
| BGYC53H | Marine Biology |
| (BGYC56H) | Limnology |
| BGYC59H | Advanced Population Ecology |
| BGYC63H | Conservation Ecology |
| BGYC65H | Environmental Toxicology |
| BOT434H | Topics in Applied Ecology |
| EESB02H | Principles of Geomorphology |
| EESB03H | Principles of Climatology |
| EESB04H | Principles of Hydrology (if not taken in the core) |
| EESB05H | Principles of Soil Science (if not taken in the core) |
| EESB09H | Biotechnology - Environmental Implications |
| EESC03H | Geographic Information Systems and Remote Sensing |
| EESC04H | Biodiversity and Biogeography |
| EESC13H | Environmental Impact Assessment and Auditing |
| EESC16H | Field Camp I |
| EESD06H | Climatic Change Impact Assessment |
| EESD11H | Process Hydrology |
| EESD15H | Cleaning up our Mess: Remediation of Terrestrial and Aquatic Environments |
| GGR305H | Biogeography |
| GGR310H | Cultural Biogeography |
| GGR393H | Environmental Impact Assessment |
| IDSC05H | Ethics of Development |
| IDSC06H | Directed Readings on Canadian Institutions and International Development |
| (SOEC02H) | Environmental Economics |
| ZOO375H | Environmental Factors |
C. Regional and Language Options :
At least two
full-credits chosen from credits dealing with a designated development region. One of these full-credits should be a language appropriate for work in developing countries. Students with a functional knowledge of an appropriate language may substitute non-language regional credits. Student must obtain approval of their choice from the Supervisor of Studies.
| IDSD01Y | International Development Studies: Advanced Seminar |
| and | |
| Any five and one-half credits which satisfy the degree requirements. | |
Students must complete eight full-credits for the Major Program in International Development Studies. This includes all courses in Section I and four and one half creditss from Section II. In section II students must take one full-credit from at least two of the three lists of courses provided. In choosing courses, students must pay careful attention to the prerequisites for higher level courses.
Section I
Students must take all three and one-half full-course equivalents:
| ECMA01H | Introduction to Microeconomics |
| ECMA05H | Introduction to Macroeconomics |
| (Students may take as a substitute the mathematical versions of the above credits: ECMA04H & ECMA06) | |
| EESA01H | Introduction to Environmental Science |
| IDSB01H | International Development Studies: Political Economy |
| IDSB02H | International Development Studies: Development and Environment |
| POLB90H | Comparative Development in International Perspective |
| POLB91H | Comparative Development in Political Perspective |
Section II
Students must take four and one-half full-credits with at least one full credit from two of the following groups:
A. Social/Cultural Perspectives
| ANTB01H | Political Ecology |
| (ANTB03H) | The Americas: An Anthropological Perspective |
| ANTB05H | African Cultures and Societies I: Survey |
| (ANTB07H) | Comparative Slavery |
| ANTB19H | 3 Varieties of Social Life |
| ANTB20H | Culture, Politics and Globalization |
| ANTB54H | Peoples of the Middle East: An Introduction |
| ANTC55H | Muslim Societies |
| ANTC06H | African Culture and Societies II: Case Studies |
| ANTC10H | Anthropological Perspectives of Development |
| ANTC14H | Feminism and Anthropology |
| ANTC15H | Genders and Sexualities |
| ANTC19H | Producing People and Things: Economics and Social Life |
| ANTC32H | Political Anthropology |
| ANTC61H | Medical Anthropology: Illness and Healing in Cultural Perspectives |
| ANTC63H | Anthropology of Food: Human Needs |
| ANTC64H | Anthropology of Food: Consuming Passions |
| HISC50H | Africa in the Nineteenth Century |
| HISC51H | Twentieth Century Africa |
| HISC52H | A Social History of Ethiopia |
| HISC53H | Topics in Asian History |
| HISD51H | Southern Africa: Colonial Rule, Apartheid and Liberation |
| HISD52H | East African Societies in Transition |
| POLC90H | Development Studies: Political and Historical Perspectives |
| POLC96H | Politics and Society in the Middle East I |
| POLC97H | Politics and Society in the Middle East II |
| POLC91H | Latin America: Dictatorship and Democracy |
| POLC99H | Latin America: The Politics of the Dispossessed |
| POLD94H | Selected Topics on Developing Areas |
| SOCC34H | Globalization: Causes, Consequences and Critiques |
| WSTC10H | Women and Development |
| WSTC11H | Applied Study in Women and Development |
B. Policy Perspectives
| ANTC35H | Quantitative Methods in Anthropology |
| ANTC60H | Fieldwork in Social and Cultural Anthropology |
| ECMB01H | Price Theory |
| ECMB02H | Price Theory: A Mathematical Approach |
| ECMB05H | Macroeconomic Theory and Policy |
| ECMB06H | Macroeconomic Theory and Policy: A Mathematical Approach |
| ECMC02H | Topics in Price Theory |
| ECMC06H | Topics in Macroeconomic Theory |
| ECMC66H | Economic Development |
| ECMC67H | Development Policy |
| IDSB04H | International Health Policy Analysis |
| GGRC20H | Issues in Rural Development |
| HLTC02H | Women and Health: Past and Present |
| IDSB05H | Economics of Small Enterprise and Micro-Credit |
| IDSC04H | Project Management |
| IDSC05H | Ethics of Development |
| (IDSC08H | Media and Development) |
| IDSC11H | Topics in International Health Policy |
| POLB80H | Introduction to International Conflict and Conflict Management |
| POLC88H | The New International Agenda |
| POLD88H | Exploring the New International Agenda |
| SOCB40H | Quantitative Methods in Social Research |
| SOCB41H | Qualitative Methods in Social Research |
C. Environmental Perspectives
| EESB02H | Principles of Geomorphology |
| EESB03H | Principles of Climatology |
| EESB04H | Principles of Hydrology |
| EESB05H | Principles of Soil Science |
| EESB09H | Biotechnology - Environmental Implications |
| EESC03H | Geographic Information Systems and Remote Sensing |
| EESC13H | Environmental Impact Assessment and Auditing |
| BGYC59H | Advanced Population Ecology |
| FOR201H | Conservation and Management of World's Forests (St. George Campus) |
Students must complete 4 FCEs for the Minor Program in International Development Studies, as follows:
| ECMA01H | Introduction to Microeconomics |
| ECMA05H | Introduction to Macroeconomics |
| (Students may take as a substitute the mathematical versions of the above credits: ECMA04H & ECMA06) | |
| IDSB01H | International Development Studies: Political Economy |
| EESA01H | Introduction to Environmental Science |
| IDSB02H | International Development Studies: Development and Environment |
| 1.5 FCE from Section II for the Major Program, which must include 1 FCE at the C- or D-level. Students are advised that POLB90H & POLB91H are very useful complementary courses, although only 0.5 FCE can be counted as a requirement for the Minor Program. | |
This is an Interfaculty Program for Scarborough students wishing to pursue the Specialist (Co-op) Program in International Development Studies in conjunction with a Major in Environmental Studies, from Innis College. Students registered in the Specialist or Major in Environmental Studies at Innis College may choose also to complete the requirements for a Major in International Development Studies offered by the University of Toronto at Scarborough.
This is a limited enrollment Program. Students already registered in the Specialist (Co-op) Program in International Development Studies must ballot for the Interfaculty Program.
See the University of Toronto Calendar for Program requirements at http://www.artsandscience.utoronto.ca/ofr/calendar . Look also for Environmental Studies under Innis College.
Program Counsellor: David Powell
david.powell@utoronto.ca or (416-971-5141)
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