The Global Poverty minor develops an awareness and understanding of the dimensions of global poverty, its causes and consequences, and the scope of policies aimed at poverty alleviation.
Students will discover how incentives, resources, and social and political institutions influence the incidence of poverty across and within countries. Students in the minor will explore the relationships between poverty and determinants of human welfare such as hunger, health, education and environmental quality.
We welcome students of all majors to declare this as a minor.
Declaring the Minor
You must declare a minor no later than one full academic year before graduation.
If you would like to enroll in the minor, please fill out an interest form (including a signature from your major college) and e-mail Professor Ken Leonard to schedule an advising appointment.
Minor Requirements
Five (5) courses with a fifteen (15) credit minimum total, with at least one Global Poverty signature course and at least one Global Perspectives signature course. No more than six (6) credits can overlap with a major.
Course Choices
One (1) Global Poverty Signature course
AREC 345: Global Poverty and Economic Development
AREC 365: World Hunger, Population, and Food Supplies
One (1) Global Perspectives Signature course
ANTH 265: Anthropology of Global Health
GEOG 330: As the World Turns: Society and Sustainability in a Time of Great Change
GVPT 200: International Political Relations
GVPT 280: The Study of Comparative Politics
GVPT 282: Politics and the Developing World
GVPT 289A, 289J, OR 289L: Special Topics in Government and Politics
GVPT 306: Global Environmental Politics
GVPT 309: Topics in International Relations
GVPT 354: International Development and Conflict Management
GVPT 359: Topics in Comparative Politics
GVPT 409J: Seminar in International Relations and World Politics
GVPT 409K
ENES 269: Topics in Grand Challenges for Engineering in a Global Context
ENES 316: Global Leadership in Engineering, Business, & Technology
ENES 464: International Entrepreneurship and Innovation
ENES 472: International Business Cultures in Engineering and Technology
ENES 474: Global Perspectives of Engineering
BSST 242: Understanding the Principles of Perils of CBRN Weapons
BSST 330: Terrorist Motivations and Behaviors
BSST 331: Response to Terrorism
BSST 334: States of Emergency
BSST 335: Innovations in Countering Violent Extremism
BSST 340: Oral Communication for National Security Careers
BSST 360
BSST 370: Terrorist Financing Analysis and Counterterrorist Finance
BSST 372: Terrorist Hostage Taking
Three (3) Electives
NOTE: a course cannot be used to satisfy two requirements, i.e. a course taken to satisfy either of the signature requirements above cannot be used as an elective. However, some of the courses above can be used as electives as per the list below after signature course requirements are satisfied.
AREC 260: The Science of Gender in Economics and Development
AREC 345: Global Poverty and Economic Development
AREC 365: World Hunger, Population, and Food Supplies
AREC 360: Global Agriculture - Developing Extension Education & Agriculture Technologies in Africa
AREC 361: UMD-Summer: Liberia: Implementing Extension Education in Africa
ANTH 210: Introduction to Medical Anthropology and Global Health
ANTH 265: Anthropology of Global Health
ANTH 310: Method & Theory in Medical Anthropology and Global Health
CCJS 325: Slavery in the Twenty First Century: Combating Human Trafficking
CCJS 370: Race, Crime and Criminal Justice
ECON 175: Inequality: Determinants and Policy Remedies
ECON 314: Economic History, Development, and Policy
ECON 315: Economic Development of Underdeveloped Areas
ECON 317: Global Economic Policies
ECON 375: Economics of Poverty and Discrimination
ECON 416: Theory of Economic Development
ECON 418: Economic Development of Selected Areas
ENST 100: International Crop Production
FGSM 380: Responses to Global Challenges
FMSC 381: Poverty, Affluence, and Families
GEOG 130: Developing Countries*
GEOG 330: As the World Turns: Society and Sustainability in a Time of Great Change
GEOG 423: Latin America
GVPT 200: International Political Relations
GVPT 282: Politics and the Developing World
GVPT 289A: Appetite for Change-Politics and Globalization of Food
GVPT 306: Global Environmental Politics
GVPT 350: International Relations of the Third World
GVPT 354: International Development and Conflict Management
HLTH 325: Poor in America: Health and Wellbeing
HIST 496: Africa Since Independence
HONR 228N: Evaluating Global Development Assistance
HONR 228R: Parenting and Poverty: The Effects of Growing up Poor on Children's Development
MIEH 400: Introduction to Global Health
NFSC 425: International Nutrition
Important Notes
- Students who declared the Global Poverty minor in Spring 2018 or before may use GEOG 130 to satisfy the Global Studies Signature/Perspectives course requirement. GEOG 130 will only count as an elective and NOT a Global Studies Perspectives course for students who declare Fall 2018 and after.
- A maximum of two (2) courses total can be below the 300-level.
- A maximum of one (1) experiential learning course (internship or study abroad) can count towards the Global Poverty minor.
- Many of these courses listed require prerequisites. It is the student's responsibility to ensure familiarity with pre-requisites for a course.
- Other courses can be considered as electives with advisor approval.
