Beginning in Academic Year 2008-2009, the Social Change and Development (SC&D) track will no longer be offered for new students. SC&D students who entered the program in AY 2007-2008 will continue to fulfill their original requirements in their second year. The types of courses formerly listed under the SC&D track will be incorporated into a new track called Human Development that will cover sectors such as education, rural development, urbanization, and, in cooperation with the SAIS International Policy Program, public health and environmentally sustainable development. Unlike SC&D, there will be no special requirements for joining the Human Development track; prior field experience in a developing country is, however, very desirable for any student wishing to enter the IDEV program for all three tracks: Finance and Development, Politics and Governance and the new Human Development track. Click here for a chart summarizing the new requirements. Students in all three tracks are required to take three courses in their chosen track and any two courses on development approved by IDEV from among courses offered by the following SAIS regional programs: Africa, Asia, Latin America, Middle East and Russia/Eurasia. All students will have constrained choices for their two economics electives; they must take either statistics or econometrics and another course from the SAIS Economics Program's category of courses on "Development Economics." As before, any student in any track may choose to do specializations in either Development Economics or Emerging Markets. All students must take IDEV's Introduction to Development, and choose Comparative National Systems as one of their core courses.
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