2023-2024 Academic Catalog

Nov 23, 2024

2023-2024 Academic Catalog [ARCHIVED CATALOG]

Environmental Science and Policy, MS

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Overview

The Environmental Science and Policy (ES&P) Master of Science Program at Clark University prepares students for exciting careers at the intersection of environment, development, society and technology. ES&P began as a pioneer in the 1970s, one of the first environmental programs anywhere to explore this vital intersection.

The social and ecological challenges of the 21st Century are inherently complex and dynamic. ES&P teaches students to: apply knowledge and methods from both the natural and social sciences; to integrate quantitative, spatial, qualitative and narrative data; to understand and respond to complex challenges like climate change, pollution, and social injustice. The ES&P student becomes equipped with knowledge, skills and perspectives to work collaboratively with a wide array of stakeholders - communities, governmental agencies, NGOs, businesses, researchers, and donors - in ways that are sensitive to cultural, institutional, socio-political, and economic contexts. Our approach to teaching, scholarship and practice is constructively critical, engaged with diverse people and places, and strongly integrative.

ES&P students participate in research/practice collaborations that tackle a wide range of pressing issues, including health risks associated with toxic chemicals, climate change impacts and resilience, natural resource governance, and capacity building for sustainable development in both domestic and international settings. ES&P students are educated to recognize, characterize, frame, understand and collaboratively respond to the challenging issues of the 21^_st Century. As member of a closely-knit family of graduate programs - including International Development, Community Development & Planning, Geographic Information Science, and Community & Global Health - ES&P is an academically rigorous, professionally oriented program. Faculty academic advisors work closely with ES&P students to co-create a course of study that best prepares each student to be successful in meeting her/his professional and academic goals.

The ES&P masters programs may be completed with ten units of credit over 15 months (approximately three semesters). Students interested in a substantive research experience may pursue the 12-unit research track, normally over two years and requiring the completion of a thesis.

Visit us at http://www.clarku.edu/programs/masters-environmental-science-and-policy to learn more details about the program and our pioneering, interdisciplinary IDCE Department.

Course of Study

For the master’s degree in ES&P requiring 10 graduate course units. Students will take the following:

These include Core Courses (3 units), Method/Skill Courses (2 units), Elective Courses in an IDCE Concentration Area (4 units), and one Final Project (1 unit). For the Final Project students can complete either a research paper, professional project, designated Collaborative Final Project (CFP) course, or a 3rd Method/Skill course. The two research-based options are:

Research Paper (one Reader) - Exploring a topic in an original way, typically based on secondary data analysis and/or case study analysis, with a literature review.
Professional Project (one Reader) - Based on a student’s professional relationship with a host institution, producing something of value to the host and informed by academic research.

The Core Courses and the Final Project (10th) unit provide ES&P students with a firm foundation in science and policy knowledge and skills, as well as research/practice experience. The electives in one of the IDCE Concentration Areas (e.g. Climate Change Impacts & Adaptation, Environment & Development, Healthy People/Healthy Planet, Urban Resilience) enable interdisciplinary collaboration with students in other IDCE programs.

As a small, vibrant interdisciplinary research university, Clark strongly encourages its students to take advantage of the courses offered within IDCE, as well as associated departments: Geography, Biology, Physics, Chemistry, Economics and Management.

ES&P Program Requirements

Core Courses (3)

The core courses provide ES&P graduate students with a common academic foundation in science, policy, and integration of the two:

IDCE 30102 Case Studies in Environmental Issues and Policy Analysis . Through a series of case studies, this course will introduce students to a range of approaches for structuring and analyzing complex environmental problems, including decision-tree analysis, value of information, benefit-cost analysis and benefit-risk analysis, multi-attribute analysis, data synthesis techniques, and uncertainty analysis.
IDCE 30287 Fundamentals of Environmental Science . This foundation science class gives students the literacy and skills needed to understand the science behind environmental problems that affect us all: water pollution; air pollution; environmental health risks; population growth and the over-exploitation of natural resources. It also strengthens math skills and quantitative ability. Principles from science (especially Physics and Chemistry), as well as mathematical tools, are used to address two main types of environmental problem: a) problems of pollution; and b) problems of natural resource over-exploitation
IDCE 30118 Science Meets Policy in the Real World . This course is a workshop-style course that explores the intersection of science and policy using case studies. Real-world problems are inherently complex: this course considers how to better understand such problems from multiple perspectives, then use this knowledge to inform how society may respond in the form of policies, programs, projects and practices.

Method/Skill (2)

Two courses that focus on the development of specific Methods or Skills, in consultation with the faculty advisor.

Culminating Course Unit (1)

For the Final Project/10th unit students can complete either: a research paper, a professional project, designated Collaborative Final Project (CFP) course, or 3rd Methods/Skills course.

Students who choose one of the two research-based options (detailed above), present their work at the ES&P Symposium in their final semester.

12 Unit MA/MS Degree - Research Track Requirements

For the master’s degree requiring 12 graduate course units. Students will take 12 courses in the following categories:

Three “core” courses which vary by program.
Three methods or skills courses. A representative list can be found in the Methods and Skills Courses section. These courses further build the program-specific skills of students.
Four concentration courses. IDCE Concentrations reflect faculty-identified focal areas of the department. The concentrations cut across some or all of the other degree programs.
Two units of substantive research, one of which must be IDCE 397 - Master’s Thesis .

Concentration Electives (4)

The electives in one of the IDCE Concentration Areas (e.g. Climate Change Impacts & Adaptation, Environment & Development, Healthy People/Healthy Planet, Urban Resilience) enable interdisciplinary perspectives based on discussion and collaboration with students in other IDCE programs.

Please view Clark’s official Academic Catalog (www.clarku.edu/academiccatalog) for a complete listing of course offerings. ES&P encourages students to take classes across IDCE programs and in other departments including Biology, Geography, Physics, Chemistry, Economics and Management.

Concentrations - IDCE

Students may select from one of the Concentrations within IDCE.

Climate Change Impacts & Adaptation

The Climate Change Impacts & Adaptation concentration focuses on understanding and responding to one of the world’s greatest challenges. IDCE’s program brings together environmental, social, and policy scientists to produce collaborative, integrative approaches that improve society’s capacity to understand and address the climate crisis. All people and places are touched by climate change, but impacts and capacities to adapt are unevenly distributed across populations and landscapes, making social equity and justice core concerns. Students gain literacy in the science of climate change, the structure and policy of climate negotiations and finance, and they learn how climate change factors into multiple sectors, including health, water, food, urban infrastructure, energy, and conservation. Students develop skills in climate modeling in GIS; risk assessment; quantitative and qualitative data analysis; participatory research methodologies, and policy analysis. Opportunities to contribute to faculty research include active projects in the Arctic, West Africa, Ethiopia, Mexico City, and New England. Students are prepared for careers with international organizations like the World Bank, USAID, FAO, and World Resources Institute, as well as state and municipal agencies, climate action networks, and private sector consultants.

GEOG 316 - Field Methods for Environmental Science

GEOG 363 - The Climate System and Global Environmental Change

IDCE 30101 - The Political Economy of Food and the Ethics of Eating

IDCE 30205 - Climate Change, Energy and Development

IDCE 30231 - Humanitarian Assistances in Complex Emergencies/Disasters

IDCE 30243 - Seeing Like a Humanitarian Agency

IDCE 30245 - Natural Resource Management

IDCE 30272 - Environmental Justice in Latin America

IDCE 328 - Food Security and Climate Change

IDCE 332 - Sustainable Development Assessment and Planning

IDCE 341 - Nongovernment Organizations: Catalysts for Development

IDCE 351 - Global Environmental Issues: Science, Technology and Policy

IDCE 365 - Cities, Regions, Climate Change & Health

IDCE 367 - Climate Change Adaptation

IDCE 395 - Culture, Environment, and Development

MGMT 5615 - Corporate Social Responsibility

PHYS 243 - Technology of Renewable Energy

Education, Youth, & Development

Education is one of the most important tools communities across the globe possess for addressing inequity and achieving socio-economic development. In IDCE, we understand education to be both formal and informal, and what happens within and outside of schools. Community-based youth development focuses on the whole child and the whole family. The Education, Youth & Development concentration connects these fields and prepares students for rewarding careers in youth development and educational settings in the US and internationally in communities, schools, governmental institutions, non-profit organizations and NGOs, and philanthropic foundations. Our courses are taught at the intersection of critical analysis of power and privilege; educational access, justice and equity; gender identity, race, and class; and youth development studies. IDCE field-based experience may take you into the City of Worcester and surrounding areas, or internationally to our various field sites. You will develop professional skills in program planning and management, policy analysis, advocacy and organizing.

EDUC 308 - Literacy Across the Curriculum

EDUC 327 - Culture, Language and Education

EDUC 361 - Human Development and Learning

EDUC 381 - Critical Pedagogies

IDCE 30111 - Urban Development: Process and Change

IDCE 30117 - Place-Based Ecological Knowledge

IDCE 30203 - Program Evaluation for Youth and Community Development Initiatives

IDCE 30221 - Education and Development

IDCE 30225 - Grant Writing for Community Developers

IDCE 30275 - Gender Transformative Development Practice

IDCE 30281 - Community Needs and Resource Analysis

IDCE 30296 - Nonprofit Management

IDCE 303 - Youth Work: Practice and Social Justice

IDCE 30322 - Adolescent Girls and International Development

IDCE 30365 - Global Issues in Education

IDCE 314 - Education and Youth in a Global Context

IDCE 333 - Development Mgmt in Developing Countries

IDCE 335 - Strategies for Community Organizing

IDCE 340 - Fundamentals of Youth Work

IDCE 341 - Nongovernment Organizations: Catalysts for Development

IDCE 345 - CDP Practice: Reflection and Deliberate Practice

IDCE 387 - Labor, Globalization and Inequality

Environment & Development

The Environment & Development concentration explores how the science and politics of resource use shape efforts to promote sustainable development. The program critically examines what is being conserved, for whom, and why with particular attention to issues of power, equity, and justice. Coursework includes ecology and earth systems science, natural resource management, ethnobiology, political ecology, and sustainable development. Students tackle complex problems through transdisciplinary collaborations that integrate multiple ways of knowing and being in the world, including marginalized perspectives. Conceptually, students will learn why conservation and development efforts frequently have adverse impacts on human-environment relations. Students will gain competencies in environmental impact assessment, evaluation of ecosystem services, stakeholder mapping, system dynamics modeling, diversity analysis, and participatory action research. The concentration prepares students for careers with international environmental organizations such as the Nature Conservancy and the United Nations Environment Programme, as well as land trusts, environmental advocacy groups, and governmental agencies.

BIOL 316 - Ecology

GEOG 309 - Trends in Forest Ecology

GEOG 316 - Field Methods for Environmental Science

GEOG 332 - Landscape Ecology

GEOG 333 - Terrestrial Ecosystems and Global Change

GEOG 336 - Wildlife Conservation GIS Research Seminar

GEOG 360 - GIS & Land Change Models

GEOG 386 - Special Topics

IDCE 30101 - The Political Economy of Food and the Ethics of Eating

IDCE 30117 - Place-Based Ecological Knowledge

IDCE 30121 - Food Systems: Place, Politics and Policy

IDCE 30154 - Mega Development: Exploring The Nexus Between Natural Resource Extraction, Infrastructure Development and Environment

IDCE 30245 - Natural Resource Management

IDCE 30272 - Environmental Justice in Latin America

IDCE 30287 - Fundamentals of Environmental Science

IDCE 30701 - Beyond the Population Bomb: Rethinking Population and The Environment in an Era of Climate Change

IDCE 329 - Property and Community

IDCE 332 - Sustainable Development Assessment and Planning

IDCE 351 - Global Environmental Issues: Science, Technology and Policy

IDCE 365 - Cities, Regions, Climate Change & Health

IDCE 367 - Climate Change Adaptation

IDCE 395 - Culture, Environment, and Development

Gender and Development

Gender and Development concentration students examine the creation, reproduction, and reduction of gender inequalities around the world. We bring a feminist lens to tackle global issues pertaining to gender and power. Students interested in gender identity and politics may pursue topics such as access to land and natural resources; power and empowerment; and forced migration and displacement, as well as gender inclusion in the management of non-governmental organizations, advocacy campaigns, and related fields. Students who take the concentration will learn the methods, tools and approaches used by scholars and practitioners to conduct gender analysis. Graduates will be equipped to pursue doctoral or other advanced degrees, work for government, inter-governmental, international aid agencies or non-profit organizations. Students completing this concentration could be qualified to serve as “gender specialist” or “subject matter expert,” and would be able to pursue careers in education, research, policy and program development, project management, consulting, and more.

IDCE 30184 - Gender Analysis of Power and Conflict

IDCE 30221 - Education and Development

IDCE 30235 - Trafficking: Globalization and Its Illicit Commodities

IDCE 30248 - Gender and Health

IDCE 30275 - Gender Transformative Development Practice

IDCE 30297 - Refugees, Forced Migration, and Belonging

IDCE 30322 - Adolescent Girls and International Development

IDCE 30325 - Controversial and Emerging Environmental Issues at the Science-Policy Interface

IDCE 30365 - Global Issues in Education

IDCE 314 - Education and Youth in a Global Context

IDCE 329 - Property and Community

IDCE 341 - Nongovernment Organizations: Catalysts for Development

IDCE 354 - Beyond Victims and Guardian Angels: Third World Women, Gender and Development

IDCE 357 - Sex and development: the intersection of sexuality, morality, and modernity

IDCE 395 - Culture, Environment, and Development

Health Equity

The field of community and global health calls for achieving health equity and justice for all people worldwide. Students in the Health Equity concentration will learn about the global and local determinants of disease, the barriers to accessing high quality and affordable medical care, the ways communities and governments set health priorities and evaluate health needs, and the role of policy in promoting healthy individuals, families, and communities. Students who concentrate in health equity will gain understanding of the national and global burden of disease, the major actors and institutions that influence health policy domestically and globally, how health systems are organized around the world, and how they might contribute to achieving health equity as a community and global health professional.

IDCE 30101 - The Political Economy of Food and the Ethics of Eating

IDCE 30231 - Humanitarian Assistances in Complex Emergencies/Disasters

IDCE 30248 - Gender and Health

IDCE 30282 - Community Based Health Research

IDCE 30306 - GIS for International Development

IDCE 30330 - Approaches to Community Health

IDCE 30341 - Health Promotion and Interventions

IDCE 30360 - Spatial Analysis for Health

IDCE 30701 - Beyond the Population Bomb: Rethinking Population and The Environment in an Era of Climate Change

IDCE 308 - Health (in)Equity: Social Determinants and Policy Solutions

IDCE 320 - Food Production, Environment, and Health

IDCE 341 - Nongovernment Organizations: Catalysts for Development

IDCE 357 - Sex and development: the intersection of sexuality, morality, and modernity

IDCE 377 - Approaches to Global Health

Healthy People/Healthy Planet

We inhabit an ever-changing social and natural world that has a profound influence on individuals, households and communities. Human health and wellbeing depend on a complex interplay among social conditions (economic, cultural, and political) and the physical environment (indoor and outdoor spaces, residential and occupational). These factors help us understand health vulnerability in terms of marginalization, poverty, lifestyle, and disparities in access to health-enabling resources and differential exposure to life-threatening conditions. The Health People/Healthy Planet concentration approaches health in the broadest sense (physical, mental, social). We train students to analyze the origins of health disparities and identify how risk factors and promoting factors vary across populations and landscapes. Graduates will be equipped to examine the intersection of social and environmental determinants of health and to work towards health equity in partnership with diverse stakeholders.

GEOG 316 - Field Methods for Environmental Science

GEOG 343 - Foundations and Frontiers in Land System Science

IDCE 30101 - The Political Economy of Food and the Ethics of Eating

IDCE 30117 - Place-Based Ecological Knowledge

IDCE 30121 - Food Systems: Place, Politics and Policy

IDCE 30205 - Climate Change, Energy and Development

IDCE 30231 - Humanitarian Assistances in Complex Emergencies/Disasters

IDCE 30245 - Natural Resource Management

IDCE 30282 - Community Based Health Research

IDCE 30287 - Fundamentals of Environmental Science

IDCE 30306 - GIS for International Development

IDCE 30330 - Approaches to Community Health

IDCE 30341 - Health Promotion and Interventions

IDCE 30360 - Spatial Analysis for Health

IDCE 30701 - Beyond the Population Bomb: Rethinking Population and The Environment in an Era of Climate Change

IDCE 308 - Health (in)Equity: Social Determinants and Policy Solutions

IDCE 320 - Food Production, Environment, and Health

IDCE 328 - Food Security and Climate Change

IDCE 332 - Sustainable Development Assessment and Planning

IDCE 341 - Nongovernment Organizations: Catalysts for Development

IDCE 351 - Global Environmental Issues: Science, Technology and Policy

IDCE 365 - Cities, Regions, Climate Change & Health

IDCE 383 - Cultures in Exile

IDCE 395 - Culture, Environment, and Development

MGMT 5615 - Corporate Social Responsibility

Monitoring & Evaluation

Monitoring and Evaluation (M&E) is an essential and required element of domestic community and international development programs. Collecting and using program data related to outcomes, impacts and performance, both intended and unintended, are essential for accountability and evidence-based decision making. The Monitoring and Evaluation concentration prepares students in the current theory, knowledge, skills and professional competencies necessary for leadership roles in program evaluation and management. Students will learn to: design and develop M&E systems; develop project specific indictors; understand and use evaluation frameworks including logical frameworks; appropriately utilize evaluative thinking and evaluation theory of change frameworks; develop knowledge and competence in a range of evaluation methodologies; collect, manage, and analyze data; and, craft professional reports and presentations. We prepare graduates to work according to the American Evaluation Association’s professional standards and code of ethics. Students who complete the concentration may enter the field as “monitoring & evaluation officers,” “M&E leads,” or more senior positions such as “MLE Director.”

IDCE 30110 - Qualitative Research Methods for Policy Design and Analysis

IDCE 30203 - Program Evaluation for Youth and Community Development Initiatives

IDCE 30225 - Grant Writing for Community Developers

IDCE 30229 - Program Monitoring and Evaluation Fundamentals

IDCE 30275 - Gender Transformative Development Practice

IDCE 30281 - Community Needs and Resource Analysis

IDCE 30291 - Qualitative Research Methods

IDCE 30296 - Nonprofit Management

IDCE 304 - International and Comparative Analysis of Community Development

IDCE 319 - Quantitative Methods and Statistics For Evaluators

IDCE 332 - Sustainable Development Assessment and Planning

IDCE 341 - Nongovernment Organizations: Catalysts for Development

Refugees, Forced Migration, & Belonging

The Concentration in Refugees, Forced Migration, & Belonging strives to understand the complex political economy of the global distribution, circulation, and regulation of people on the move today. We take a participatory, community-based, and refugee-centered approach to the field, and offer a comprehensive analysis of experiences of and responses to forcible displacement and integration from a mobilities perspective. Students will learn how policies and organizations designed to manage or assist forced migrants, refugees, and other displaced people intersect with ideas about citizenship, integration, sustainability, gender, development, and belonging. Students are introduced to critical policy perspectives, and integrative methods and approaches for research with forced migrant populations, including GIS, and narrative research and analysis. Graduates will be equipped to pursue doctoral or other advanced degrees, work for government, inter-governmental, international aid agencies or non-profit organizations.

HGS 320 - Genocide and Civil War in the African Great Lakes Region

HIST 361 - Borderlands: Violence and Coexistence

HIST 366 - Refugees

IDCE 30107 - Forced Migration and the City

IDCE 30108 - Research Methods for Forced Migration

IDCE 30111 - Urban Development: Process and Change

IDCE 30154 - Mega Development: Exploring The Nexus Between Natural Resource Extraction, Infrastructure Development and Environment

IDCE 30231 - Humanitarian Assistances in Complex Emergencies/Disasters

IDCE 30235 - Trafficking: Globalization and Its Illicit Commodities

IDCE 30243 - Seeing Like a Humanitarian Agency

IDCE 30297 - Refugees, Forced Migration, and Belonging

IDCE 30322 - Adolescent Girls and International Development

IDCE 30325 - Controversial and Emerging Environmental Issues at the Science-Policy Interface

IDCE 314 - Education and Youth in a Global Context

IDCE 330 - Theory and Methods in Genocide and Human Rights Studies

IDCE 341 - Nongovernment Organizations: Catalysts for Development

IDCE 347 - Human Rights Strategy, Tactics, and Practice

IDCE 383 - Cultures in Exile

PSYC 316 - The Social Psychology of Collective Violence and its Aftermath

Urban Resilience

The Urban Resilience concentration prepares students to understand the capabilities of individuals, communities, institutions, and businesses in cities to withstand and adapt to a variety of multi-dimensional shocks and chronic stressors. Students will investigate the resilience of urban communities to natural hazards, environmental depletion, economic downturns, social exclusion, and other systemic failures or structural challenges. Through classroom instruction, internships, and fieldwork, students learn to support community asset building, and to address inequitable impacts on different groups in society such as youth, immigrants, women, and other vulnerable populations. Students who pursue this concentration will acquire analytical and practical tools, and professional expertise. Graduates will be qualified to work as urban and community planners, program and policy analysts, project managers, social advocates, and nonprofit leaders at various levels of government and in non-profit organizations in the United States and abroad, as well as to pursue further graduate education.

IDCE 30107 - Forced Migration and the City

IDCE 30111 - Urban Development: Process and Change

IDCE 30112 - Housing Policy and Practice

IDCE 30121 - Food Systems: Place, Politics and Policy

IDCE 30231 - Humanitarian Assistances in Complex Emergencies/Disasters

IDCE 30281 - Community Needs and Resource Analysis

IDCE 30296 - Nonprofit Management

IDCE 30297 - Refugees, Forced Migration, and Belonging

IDCE 303 - Youth Work: Practice and Social Justice

IDCE 30393 - Social Applications of GIS

IDCE 304 - International and Comparative Analysis of Community Development

IDCE 308 - Health (in)Equity: Social Determinants and Policy Solutions

IDCE 320 - Food Production, Environment, and Health

IDCE 334 - Planning and Zoning for Community Developers

IDCE 340 - Fundamentals of Youth Work

IDCE 341 - Nongovernment Organizations: Catalysts for Development

IDCE 346 - Practicum in Community Development and Planning

IDCE 365 - Cities, Regions, Climate Change & Health

IDCE 383 - Cultures in Exile

IDCE 387 - Labor, Globalization and Inequality

IDCE 395 - Culture, Environment, and Development

Method/Skill (2)

To complement core and electives courses, students take two Method/Skill courses. Examples include: “Introduction to GIS”; “Intermediate Quantitative Methods; Qualitative Research Methods; and Field Methods for Environmental Science.”

Methods and Skills Options

IDCE methods and skills courses are grouped into three clusters. The first cluster consists of general methods courses that are appropriate to students across programs (IDSC, CDP, ES&P, and MHS). These courses are foundational and relevant to all concentrations. The second cluster consists of methods and skills courses that pertain more to specific programs, concentrations and/or certificates. Students should review the syllabi posted on Moodle and then consult with their advisors and/or the instructors to determine the relevance of the course materials to her/his plan of study. The third cluster consists of methods and skills courses that are highly specialized and are unlikely to be appropriate to students from other programs, concentrations, and/or certificates.

Second and third cluster courses may require technical skills as pre-requisites. Additionally, some second and third cluster methods and skills courses may be closed to students not enrolled in a specific program.

Cluster 1 General (usually offered at least annually)

IDCE 310 Intro to Geographic Information Science

IDCE 340 Fundamentals of Youth Work

IDCE 361 Project Management for Social Change

IDCE 30109 Introduction to Epidemiology

IDCE 30110 Qualitative Research Methods for Policy Design and Analysis

IDCE 30225 Grant Writing for Community Developers

IDCE 30229 Program Monitoring and Evaluation Fundamentals

IDCE 30218 - Community Development Decision Making & Negotiations

IDCE 30281 Community Needs and Resource Analysis

IDCE 30291 Qualitative Research Methods

IDCE 30296 Nonprofit Management

Cluster 2 More Specialized (usually offered annually or biannually)

GEOG 316 Field Methods for Environmental Science

IDCE 319 Quantitative Methods and Statistics For Evaluators

IDCE 332 Sustainable Development Assessment and Planning

IDCE 333 Development Mgmt in Developing Countries

IDCE 334 Planning and Zoning for Community Developers

IDCE 335 Strategies for Community Organizing

IDCE 345 - CDP Practice: Reflection and Deliberate Practice

IDCE 346 - Practicum in Community Development and Planning

IDCE 390 CDP Research Seminar

IDCE 30101 - The Political Economy of Food and the Ethics of Eating

IDCE 30203 Program Evaluation for Youth and Community Development Initiatives

IDCE 30204 Advanced Community Development Finance and Research

IDCE 30274 Computer Programming for GIS

IDCE 30275 - Gender Transformative Development Practice

IDCE 30282 Community Based Health Research

IDCE 30287 Fundamentals of Environmental Science

IDCE 30289 - Community Development Finance

IDCE 30306 - GIS for International Development

IDCE 30360 Spatial Analysis for Health

IDCE 30393 Social Applications of GIS

Cluster 3 Highly Specialized (usually offered annually, biannually, or as demand requires)

GEOG 397 Advanced Raster GIS

IDCE 302 Python Programming

IDCE 330 - Theory and Methods in Genocide and Human Rights Studies

IDCE 376 - Spatial Database Development

IDCE 388 Advanced Vector GIS

IDCE 30102 Case Studies in Environmental Issues and Policy Analysis

IDCE 30108 Research Methods for Forced Migration

IDCE 30218 - Community Development Decision Making & Negotiations

IDCE 30239 - Microfinance, Gender & Neoliberalism

IDCE 30262 Web Mapping and Open Source GIS

Program Faculty

Edward Carr, Ph.D.
Timothy J. Downs, D.Env.
Morgan Ruelle, Ph.D.

Affiliated Faculty

Charles Agosta, Ph.D.
Parminder Bhachu, Ph.D.
Rinku Roy Chowdhury, Ph.D.
Patrick Derr, Ph.D.
Susan Foster, Ph.D.
Karen Frey, Ph.D.
Jacqueline Geoghegan, Ph.D.
Amy Ickowitz, Ph.D.
Dominic Kulakowski, Ph.D.
Todd Livdahl, Ph.D.
Deborah Martin, Ph.D.
James T. Murphy, Ph.D.
Yelena Ogneva-Himmelberger, Ph.D.
Robert Gilmore Pontius Jr, Ph.D.
Paul W. Posner, Ph.D.
John Rogan, Ph.D.
Florencia Sangermano, Ph.D.
Srinivasan Sitaraman, Ph.D.
Valerie Sperling, Ph.D.
Kristen Williams, Ph.D.

Research Faculty

Cynthia Enloe, Ph.D.
Robert Goble, Ph.D.
Dale Hattis, Ph.D.