SIS 338: Environment and Development
This course is an overview of the multidisciplinary field of environment and development. It explores development-related root causes of Third World natural resource depletion including poverty, inequality, population growth, faulty prices and markets, and other micro, sectoral, and macro development policies. This course also looks at innovate policy responses to environment and development. Usually offered every fall. Click here for the syllabus.

SIS 650: The Global Economy and Sustainable Development
This political economic inquiry focuses on two levels of analysis: the state of world economic activity in the post-World War II period, with primary focus on trade and foreign investments; and the options that exist to achieve "sustainable development" in the Third World. Special attention is given to initiatives to make trade and investment more socially and environmentally responsible. Usually offered every semester. Click here for the syllabus.

Spring Semester

SIS 649: Environment and Development
An overview of this newly emerging multidisciplinary field. Focuses on debates concerning various human-made or development-related root causes of natural-resource degradation in the Third World. Special attention is paid to the relationship between the poor and the environment. Also looks critically at recent innovative policy responses attempting to link environment and development. Usually offered every spring.
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SIS 650 The Global Economy and Sustainable Development
This political economic inquiry focuses on two levels of analysis: the state of world economic activity in the post-World War II period, with primary focus on trade and foreign investments; and the options that exist to achieve "sustainable development" in the Third World. Special attention is given to initiatives to make trade and investment more socially and environmentally responsible. Usually offered every semester.
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