IDS Professor Dan Spencer and the Vietnam Climate Change course
students travel to Ca Mau National Park in the Mekong Delta of Vietnam
Requirements
- The IDS minor requires 18 credits.
- At least twelve of these credits must come from the Core IDS courses and as many as six credits can come from Content courses. (You can take more than four Core courses in place of some Content courses.)
- At least six credits must be upper-division credits.
- No more than six Core credits and no more than six Content credits can come from the same discipline.
- Requests to transfer credits are reviewed and approved on a one-by-one basis.
- Core courses can count toward Content requirements. (DegreeWorks does not show this; IDS Director can submit "petitions" for you to have Core courses count toward Content.)
If any of the courses below are not listed for your IDS Minor in Degree Works, please let the IDS Director know, and "petitions" will be submitted to have the courses count.
Courses
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(12 credits required-No more than 6 credits from any one discipline)
- IDS191X Global Justice and Sustainable Development (IDS foundation course recommended for all IDS students). Recommended for ALL students, including IDS minors, Peace Corps Prep students. This is the core foundation course in IDS.]
- IDS 491.50 Social and Behavior Change Communication (IDS capstone course recommended for all IDS students)
- IDS 491.50 Program Evaluation for International Development (IDS career-preparation course recommended for all IDS students) [Spring 2026 online]
- ANTY 326E Indigenous People and the Ethics of Development [Spring 2026]
- BGEN 360 International Business [Spring 2026 online]
- BGEN 445 Sustainability Reporting [Spring 2026]
- COMX 204X International and Development Communication
- ECNS 217X Issues in Economic Development
- ECNS 431 International Trade
- ECNS 450 Economics of Global Development
- ECNS 433 Economics of the Environment [Spring 2026]
- ENST 427 Society, Economy, and Environment of the Mekong Delta (Study Abroad)
- ENST 489S Environmental Justice Issues and Solutions [Spring 2026]
- ENST 480 Food Justice and Sustainability
- GPHY 141SX Geography of World Regions [Spring 2026]
- GPHY 338 Mountains and Society
- HSTR 231H Modern Latin America
- HSTR 337 The History of Capitalism in Latin America
- NASX 260X Indigenous Community Development in Mexico, the U.S., and Canada
- NASX 306X/ANTY 406X Contemporary Global Issues of Indigenous People
- NRSM 170 International Environmental Change
- NRSM 424 Community Forestry and Conservation
- NRSM 475 Environment & Development
- PSCI 332 Global Environmental Politics [Spring 2026]
- PSCI 377 Issues of Global Public Health
- PSCI 420 Refugees and International Relations
- PSCI 420 Political Economy: Property Rights
- PSCI 482 Politics of the World Economy
- PSCI 431 Politics of Global Migration
- PSCI 463 Development Administration
- PSCI 428 Sustainable Climate Policies: China and the USA
- PTRM 345 Sustaining Human Societies and Natural Environment: Zambia & Botswana (Study Abroad)
- PTRM 451Tourism and Sustainability
- SW 465 Social Work in Global Context
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(No more than 6 credits)*
- ANTY 220S Culture & Society
- ANTY 241H Central Asian Culture and Civilization
- ANTY 330X Peoples and Cultures of the World [Spring 2026]
- ANTY 427 Anthropology of Gender
- COMX 415 Intercultural Communication
- COMX 421 Communication and Nonprofit Organizations [Spring 2026 online]
- COMX 493 Hong Kong, Macau, & China: Communication, Culture, and Development (Study Abroad)
- BGEN 160S Issues in Sustainability (Missoula College)
- BMGT 410 Sustainable Business Practices
- ECNS 101S Economic Way of Thinking
- ECNS 445 Introduction to Environmental Economics and Climate Change
- ENSC 470 Agroecology [Spring 2026]
- ENST 225S Sustainable Communities [Spring 2026]
- ENST 491 Fundamentals of Environmental Education
- ENST 437 Climate Change Effects and Adaptation in the Mekong Delta (Study Abroad)
- GEO 107N Natural Disasters [Spring 2026 online]
- GPHY 121S Introduction to Human Geography
- GPHY 335: Water & Sustainability
- GPHY 433 Community Resilience
- GPHY 444 High Asia
- HSTR 334 Reform and Revolution in Latin America
- HSTR 335 Latin America: Workers and Labor
- HSTR 435 Human Rights in Latin America
- JRNL 105X Global Current Events
- NASX 475X Indian Sovereignty
- NRSM 326 Climate and Society
- PHL 423 Science and the Environment
- PSCI 220S Introduction to Comparative Government [Spring 2026]
- PSCI 230X International Relations [Spring 2026]
- PSCI 325 Politics of Latin America
- PSCI 326 Politics of Africa
- PSCI 327 Politics of Mexico
- PSCI 328 Politics of China [Spring 2026]
- PSCI 330 International Relations of East Asia [Spring 2026]
- PSCI 311 Revolution and Reform in Modern China
- PSCI 337 Model U.N.
- PSCI 443 Politics of Social Movements
- PSCI 334 International Security
- PSCI 433 International Law & Organizations
- SSEA 202X Introduction to India
- SW 491 Social Justice and Integration: German Perspectives on Refugee Resettlement (Study Abroad)
*With permission from the IDS Director, up to 6 credits of field experience related to international development can be counted toward the content requirement.