IDS Graduate Certificate Requirements
Students seeking a UM Graduate Certificate in International Development Studies are required to complete a total of 12 credit hours. This includes at least 6 credits of Core Courses and up to 6 credits of International Development Studies Content Courses.
At least half of the credits must be numbered 500 or above.
Core Courses
Select 2 or more of the following courses:
- IDS 591 Social and Behavior Change Communication
- IDS 491(UG) Program Evaluation for International Development [Spring 2026 online]
- ENST 514 Society, Economy, and Environment of the Mekong Delta (Study Abroad)
- ENST 580 Food Justice and Sustainability
- ENST 589 Environmental Justice Issues and Solutions [Spring 2026]
- NRSM 575 Environment and International Development
- NRSM 570 Political Ecology
- NRSM 571 International Conservation and Development [Spring 2026] pending approval
- PSCI G 521 Globalization [Spring 2026]
- PSCI 582 Politics of World Economy
- PSCI 463 UG Development Administration -career preparation course
- PTRM 528 Tourism and Protected Area Management
- PTRM 584 Sustainable Protected Area Management and Tourism
- PTRM 595 Sustaining Human Societies and Natural Environment: Zambia & Botswana (Study Abroad)
- PTRM 595 Understanding Rural Dynamics of Outdoor Recreation, Conservation, and Tourism
In addition to the Core Curriculum, students will take no more than 2 additional IDS courses from the following list of graduate-level IDS content courses, for a total of at least 12 credits. In other words, you can take more than 2 core courses and one or none of the content courses.
Content Courses
Select no more than 2 of the following courses:
- ANTH 520 Seminar in Contemporary Ethnography
- BMGT 685 International Business [Spring 2026]
- COMX 415 UG Intercultural Communication
- COMX 483 UG Hong Kong, Macau, South China: Communication, Culture, and Development (Study Abroad)
- COUN 575 Multicultural Counseling [Spring 2026 on-campus or online]
- ECNS 450 UG Economics of Global Development
- ECNS 431 UG International Trade
- ECNS 433 UG Economics of the Environment [Spring 2026] pending approval
- ECNS 445 UG Introduction to Environmental Economics and Climate Change
- ENST 595 Foundamentals of Environment Education
- ENST 516 Climate Change Effects and Adaptation in the Mekong Delta (Study Abroad)
- HSTR 435 UG Human Rights in Latin America
- NRSM 524 Community Forestry
- PUBH 560 Environmental and Rural Health [Spring 2026]
- PHL 523 Science and the Environment
- PSCI 431 UG Politics of Global Migration
- PSCI 428 UG Sustainable Climate Policies: China and the USA
- PSCI 542 Seminar in Management & Policy Skills
- PSCI 591/377 Issues of Global Public Health (contact instructor for override)
- PSCI 591/322 Global Environmental Politics [Spring 2026]
- PSCI 332/491UG International Security
- PSCI 591/433 International Law & Organizations (contact instructor for override)
- PSCI 591/328 Politics of China [Spring 2026]
- PSCI 591/330 International Relations of East Asia [Spring 2026]
- PRTM 527 Global Ecology, Conservation, and Natural Resource Management in a Changing World
- SW 465 UG Social Work in a Global Context
International Internships and other courses not listed here may count toward the certificate on a petition by the student and approval by the IDS director.
IDS Graduate Certificate Registration
To register for the IDS Graduate Certificate, please contact IDS Director.