Certificate in Refugee, Displacement and Forced Migration Studies

Overview

Offered through Clark’s International Development, Community and Environment Department (IDCE), the Certificate in Refugee, Displacement and Forced Migration Studies combines a U.S. and international focus to explore effective ways to support displaced populations in the United States and other countries. You get a grounded understanding of displacement and forced migration issues, taking into account the complex social, political, economic and environmental factors shaping population movement.

Refugee, Displacement and Forced Migration Studies Certificate Requirements

The program is designed to offer flexible options for conventional graduate students enrolled at Clark. Graduate students would take three credits as part of a MA degree program and three additional credits. The six courses of the certificate would cover core (2), policy analysis (1), and electives (3), with a topical or geographic specialization.

Core Courses (2 Units)

• IDCE 30297 - Displacement and Development in the Contemporary World  
• IDCE 30284 - Transnationalism and Social Networks  
• IDCE 326 - Social Network Analysis  

Policy Analysis Courses (1 Unit)

• IDCE 30184 - Gender Analysis of Power and Conflict  
• IDCE 30231 - Humanitarian Assistances in Complex Emergencies/Disasters  
• IDCE 30235 - Trafficking: Globalization and Its Illicit Commodities  
• IDCE 312 - Famine and Food Security  
• IDCE 329 - Property and Community  
• IDCE 30243 - Seeing Like a Humanitarian Agency  

Electives Courses (3 Units)

• GEOG 348 - Social Justice and the City  
• GEOG 392 - Remote Sensing of Global Environmental Change  
• IDCE 30184 - Gender Analysis of Power and Conflict  
• IDCE 30231 - Humanitarian Assistances in Complex Emergencies/Disasters  
• IDCE 30320 - Harshscapes: Visioning Sustainable Futures  
• IDCE 30239 - Microfinance, Gender & Newliberalism   
• IDCE 30271 - NGOs and Advocacy  
• IDCE 30320 - Harshscapes: Visioning Sustainable Futures  
• IDCE 309 - Roots and Routes: Immigrants, Diasporas and Travel  
• IDCE 30292 - Participatory Development Planning  
• IDCE 322 - GIS for Humanitarian Assistance  
• IDCE 30282 - Community Based Health Research  
• IDCE 352 - Conflict in Sudan and the Horn of Africa  
• IDCE 383 - Cultures in Exile  
• PSYC 315 - Social and Cultural Psychology of Genocides  
• PSYC 316 - The Social Psychology of Ethnic Violence and its Aftermath  

Core Faculty in the Program of Refugee, Displacement and Forced Migration Studies

Ramon Borges-Mendez

Cynthia Caron

Anita Fabos

Jude Fernando

Ken Maclean

Marianne Sarkis