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Rationale |
This student has decided to major in Social Change and Development with an emphasis in Global Studies. He is combining Social Change and Development with a minor in Spanish. Note that the first two years of spanish courses count as skill subject courses for SCD. This student hopes to pursue a career that might, at least in part, take him outside the US. Hence he is interested in learning about the world, and convinced that learning a foreign language is necessary for this. Further, the student is interested in Latin American and Third World questions. This led him to take Politics of Developing Nations and to an Independent Study of Latin American politics with our local expert on the subject, political scientist Mark Everingham. The courses he has chosen are as follows: |
| Background | Skills | Core courses | Emphasis courses | |
| Varieties of World Culture (156-100) | Introduction to Spanish I (908-101) | Portfolio | ||
| Modern World History (448-100) | Introduction to Spanish II (908-102) | Social Change in a Selected Area--Italy (875-333) | Political Economic and Environment Anthropology (156-303) | |
| Expository Writing (352-105) | Intermediate Spanish I (908-201) | Models and Social Change (875-360) | Politics of Developing Nations (778-353) | |
| World Politics (778-100) | Intermediate Spanish II | Historical Perspectives on Social Change (875-361) | Independent Study: Latin American Politics (875-498) | |
| Senior Seminar in SCD: The Welfare State (875-470) | Sociology of the Family (900-308) | |||
| Portfolio |
| Other choices would have been possible. For instance, if this student felt that he might be more interested in Europe than in the Third World he might have taken French or German instead of Spanish. Along the same lines it might have made more sense to take International Politics instead of Politics of Developing Nations. The Independent Study about Latin American Politics could have been replaced by another course or perhaps by an internship. These are the kinds of details that are best worked out with the program advisor, who will make suggestions. Our faculty has considerable international expertise. Our portfolio experience also offers a unique (at this university) opportunity to methodically consider such choices in the light of career/life interests. |   Go
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