The Global Poverty minor develops an awareness and understanding of the dimensions of global poverty, its causes and consequences, and the scope of policies aimed at poverty alleviation.
Students will discover how incentives, resources, and social and political institutions influence the incidence of poverty across and within countries. Students in the minor will explore the relationships between poverty and determinants of human welfare such as hunger, health, education and environmental quality.
We welcome students of all majors to declare this as a minor.
The minor is supported by a student-run advisory board. Follow their Instagram account @umdglobalpoverty
Declaring the Minor
You must declare a minor no later than one full academic year before graduation.
If you would like to enroll in the minor, please fill out an interest form (including a signature from your major college) and e-mail Maria Soppelsa to schedule an advising appointment.
Minor Requirements
Five (5) courses with a fifteen (15) credit minimum total, with at least one Global Poverty signature course and at least one Global Perspectives signature course. No more than six (6) credits can overlap with a major.
Course Choices
One (1) Global Poverty Signature course
AREC 345: Global Poverty and Economic Development
AREC 365: World Hunger, Population, and Food Supplies
One (1) Global Perspectives Signature course
ANTH265 Anthropology of Global Health
BSST330 Terrorism Studies
BSST334 States of Emergency
BSST338R Far-Right Extremism: Violent Ideologies and Actions
BSST340 Oral Communication for National Security Careers
BSST370 Financing Terror and Hate
BSST372 Terrorist Hostage Taking
ENES269 Topics in Grand Challenges for Engineering in a Global Context
ENES316 Global Leadership in Engineering, Business, & Technology
ENES464 International Entrepreneurship and Innovation
ENES472 Leading Global Teams and Engaging Across Cultures in Business, Engineering, and Technology
ENES474 Global Perspectives of Engineering
GEOG330 As the World Turns: Society and Sustainability in a Time of Great Change
GVPT200 International Political Relations
GVPT280 The Study of Comparative Politics
GVPT282 Politics and the Developing World
GVPT289 Special Topics in Government and Politics
GVPT289L Religions, Beliefs, and World Affairs
GVPT306 Global Environmental Politics
GVPT309 Topics in International Relations
GVPT354 International Development and Conflict Management
GVPT359 Topics in Comparative Politics
GVPT409J Seminar in International Relations and World Politics
GVPT409K Seminar in International Relations and World Politics
Three (3) Electives
NOTE: a course cannot be used to satisfy two requirements, i.e. a course taken to satisfy either of the signature requirements above cannot be used as an elective. However, some of the courses above can be used as electives as per the list below after signature course requirements are satisfied.
AAST222 Immigration and Ethnicity in America
ANTH210 Introduction to Medical Anthropology and Global Health
ANTH265 Anthropology of Global Health
ANTH310 Method & Theory in Medical Anthropology and Global Health
ANTH412 Hypermarginality and Urban Health
ANTH413 Health Disparities in United States
AREC260 The Science of Gender in Economics and Development
AREC345 Global Poverty and Economic Development
AREC360 Global Agriculture: Developing Extension Education & Agriculture Technologies in Africa
AREC361 UMD-Summer: Liberia: Implementing Extension Education in Africa
AREC365 World Hunger, Population, and Food Supplies
AREC447 The Economy of China
CCJS325 Slavery in the Twenty First Century: Combating Human Trafficking
CCJS370 Race, Crime and Criminal Justice
ECON175 Inequality: Determinants and Policy Remedies
ECON314 Economic History, Development and Policy
ECON315 Economic Development of Underdeveloped Areas
ECON317 Global Economic Policies
ECON375 Economics of Poverty and Discrimination
ECON416 Analysis of Economic Development
ECON418 Economic Development of Selected Areas
EDHD320 Human Development through the Lifespan
ENST100 International Crop Production-Issues and Challenges in the 21st Century
FGSM380 Responses to Global Challenges
FMSC110 Families and Global Health
FMSC310 Maternal, Child and Family Health
FMSC381 Family Inequality
GEOG130 Development Geography: Environmental & Social Justice
GEOG330 As the World Turns: Society and Sustainability in a Time of Great Change
GEOG423 Latin America
GVPT200 International Political Relations
GVPT282 Politics and the Developing World
GVPT289A Appetite for Change-Politics and Globalization of Food
GVPT306 Global Environmental Politics
GVPT350 International Relations of the Third World
GVPT354 International Development and Conflict Management
GVPT482 Government and Politics of Latin America
GVPT487 Government and Politics of China
HIST251 Latin American History II
HIST496 Africa Since Independence
HLTH325 Poor in America: Health and Wellbeing
HONR228N Honors Seminar: Evaluating Global Development Assistance
HONR228R Honors Seminar: Parenting and Poverty: The Effects of Growing Up Poor on Children's Development
MIEH400 Introduction to Global Health
MIEH407 One Heath: Food Safety and Security
NFSC230 Global Nutrition Sensitive Food Systems
NFSC425 International Nutrition
SOCY241 Inequality in American Society
SOCY242 Sociology of Homelessness
SOCY302 Intersectionality and Illness
SOCY335 Sociology of Health and Illness
SOCY340 Globalization's Winners and Losers examines the relationship between globalization and inequality.
SOCY405 Scarcity and Modern Society
Important Notes
- Students who declared the Global Poverty minor in Spring 2018 or before may use GEOG 130 to satisfy the Global Studies Signature/Perspectives course requirement. GEOG 130 will only count as an elective and NOT a Global Studies Perspectives course for students who declare Fall 2018 and after.
- A maximum of two (2) courses total can be below the 300-level.
- A maximum of one (1) experiential learning course (internship or study abroad) can count towards the Global Poverty minor.
- Many of these courses listed require prerequisites. It is the student's responsibility to ensure familiarity with pre-requisites for a course.
- Other courses can be considered as electives with advisor approval.
