Global Development Study Abroad Courses

The Global Studies major requires you to take two upper-division Disciplinary courses and three upper-division Region courses in your chosen area of focus. You can apply up to three upper-division Study Abroad courses toward the major.

The courses listed below have been approved by faculty to satisfy the Disciplinary and Region requirements for the Global Development concentration. Before enrolling, make sure your selected Study Abroad course is upper-division and worth at least three semester units. Once enrolled, make sure to take it for a letter grade. You'll also need to email a copy of the syllabus (once it's available) to the Global Studies advisor.

Disciplinary Courses for the Global Development Concentration (Two Courses)

COMPLUTENSE UNIVERSITY OF MADRID, SPAIN

  • EAP ECON 123: International Economic Organization

  • EAP ECON 115: Economic Policy

  • EAP ECON 125: Public Economics

  • EAP ECON 130: Economic History

  • EAP ECON 118: World Economy

  • EAP ECON 126: International Economic Environment

SCIENCES PO, PARIS 

  • EAP ECON 159: Introduction to Environmental Economics

MAASTRICH UNIVERSITY, NETHERLANDS 

  • EAP ECON 130: Development Economics

  • EAP ECON 138: Public Economics

  • EAP ECON 109: Macroeconomics and Economic Policy

  • EAP ECON 121: International Trade

KING’S COLLEGE, LONDON

  • EAP ECON 113: Political Economy of the City of London

LONDON SCHOOL OF ECONOMICS, LONDON

  • EAP GEOG 111: Political Economy of Urbanization

  • EAP ECON 146: Development Economics

  • EAP LEGALST 123: Law and the Environment

  • EAP INTSTD 126: Political Economy of Climate Change

  • EAP GEOG 112: Introduction to Global Development

  • EAP ECON 113: Environmental Economics

  • EAP ECON 110: Labor Economics

  • EAP ECON 164: The Economic Geography of Trade and Development

UNIVERSITY OF CAPE TOWN, SOUTH AFRICA 

  • EAP ECON 128:  Development Economics

  • EAP ECON 131:  History of Economic Thought

  • EAP ECON 125: Natural Resource Economics

FUDAN UNIVERSITY, CHINA 

  • EAP ECON 153: Development Economics

  • EAP ECON  174: Labor Economics

  • EAP ECON 125: Urban Economics

  • EAP ECON 108: International Trade

  • EAP ECON 169: China and Globalization

 KOREA UNIVERSITY, SOUTH KOREA

  • EAP ECON 111: Labor Economics

  • EAP INTLSTD 120: Environment & International Relations

YONSEI UNIVERSITY, SOUTH KOREA

  • EAP ECON 135: Economics of International Development

  • EAP ECON 116: Resource and Environmental Economics

  • EAP POLI SCI 127: Environmental and Energy Politics

  • EAP POLI SCI 144: Global Politics of the Environment

 NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE, SINGAPORE

  • EAP HIST 121: Environmental History

  • EAP ECON 114: Environmental Economics

THE AMERICAN UNIVERSITY IN CAIRO, EGYPT 

  • EAP ECON 105: Economic Development

PONTIFICAL CATHOLIC UNIVERSITY OF RIO de JANEIRO, BRAZIL 

  • EAP ECON 130: Monetary Economics

  • EAP ECON 123: International Economics

  • EAP SOCIOL 112: Inequalities & Diversity in Urban Context

Region/Area Courses for the Global Development Concentration (Three courses from one region)

AFRICA (North and Sub-Saharan)

UNIVERSITY OF CAPE TOWN, SOUTH AFRICA 

  • EAP ENGLISH 119: South African Politics

  • EAP POLI SCI 132: South Africa Public Policy Analysis

  • EAP POLI SCI 129: Politics of Africa and Global South

  • EAP HISTORY 141: Africa since 1800 - From Colonial Rule to Independence

  • EAP ECON 131: Social Justice and Inequality

  • EAP SOCIOL 122: Poverty, Development and Globalization

  • EAP AFRICAMSTD 125: African Political Economy

  • EAP ECON 148: African Economic Thought

AMERICAS

UC CENTER, MEXICO CITY, MEXICO 

  • EAP HISTORY 172: Issues in Contemporary Mexican History

NATIONAL AUTONOMOUS UNIVERSITY OF MEXICO, MEXICO 

  • EAP HISTORY 120: Contemporary Mexico

  • EAP GEOG 160: Geopolitics and Integration in Latin America and the Caribbean

  • EAP LATAMST 135: Mexico & North American Relations

  • EAP POLI SCI 126: Latin America and the Caribbean

INSTITUTO TECNOLOGICO Y de  ESTUDIOS SUPERIORES de MONTERREY, MEXICO

  • EAP HISTORY 100: Modern and Contemporary Mexico

PONTIFICAL CATHOLIC UNIVERSITY OF RIO de JANEIRO, BRAZIL

  • EAP HISTORY 122: History of Brazil I

  • EAP LATAMST 121: Political Thought in Latin America

  • EAP LATAMST 172: Brazilian History

  • EAP POLI SCI 138: Brazilian Foreign Policy

ASIA

FUDAN UNIVERSITY, CHINA

  • EAP ECON 169: China and Globalization

MEIJI GAKUIN UNIVERSITY, JAPAN

  • EAP HIST 129: Modern East Asian History

MAASTRICH UNIVERSITY, NETHERLANDS

  • EAP ECON 102 : Economics and Society in Contemporary Asia

YONSEI UNIVERSITY, SOUTH KOREA

  • EAP HIST 113: Modern History of Korea

  • EAP INTLSTD 105: Korean Peninsula in Global Context

  • EAP INTLSTD 123: Korea and East Asia’s International History

EUROPE & RUSSIA

CARLOS III UNIVERSITY OF MADRID, SPAIN

  • EAP SOCIOL 105: Social Inequality in Spain. Service Learning

  • EAP HISTORY 131: History of Spain

  • EAP HISTORY 108: Contemporary History of Spain

  • EAP POLISCI 133: Topics in Spanish Politics

  • EAP POLISCI 109: Spanish Politics I

  • EAP HISTORY 136: Modern History of Spain

COMPLUTENSE UNIVERSITY OF MADRID, SPAIN

  • EAP ECON 109: Spanish Economy

  • EAP ECON 113: European Economies

UNIVERSITY OF CAPE TOWN, SOUTH AFRICA

  • EAP ECON 120: Regional Economic Integration

  • EAP ECON 146: European Economics

KING’S COLLEGE, LONDON 

  • EAP ECON 113: PE of  the City of London

LONDON SCHOOL OF ECONOMICS, LONDON

  • EAP HIST 114: Britain and the World: British Foreign Policy in the 20th Century

MIDDLE EAST AND NORTH AFRICA (MENA)

THE AMERICAN UNIVERSITY IN CAIRO, EGYPT 

  • EAP POLI SCI 127: The Government and Politics of Egypt

  • EAP POLI SCI 116: Comparative Politics of the Middle East

  • EAP HISTORY 142: History of Palestine/Israel

  • EAP ANTHRO 112: Environmental Issues in Egypt

CIEE, AMMAN 

  • EAP POLI SCI 102: Environment. Sustainability & Activism