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| The two-year curriculum of IDP consists of a combination of disciplinary/analytical courses and country/regional courses: the former provides analytical skills and general development knowledge that are applicable to all aspects of the development process; the latter focuses on the policies and/or experiences of a particular country or region. |
| The First Year Curriculum |
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The first-year curriculum introduces the preparatory and core required courses that provide students with tools, concepts, and theories in international development. The program's core courses are among the best in the world when compared to core courses in other Master's-level professional programs. These courses expose students to cutting edge knowledge in development economics and related fields, thus helping them to analyze public policy issues within an inclusive and coherent theoretical framework.
Students begin preparations for a Master's Thesis toward the end of the first-year . Before the spring term of the first year, all students will have decided on their research topic and will have chosen an academic supervisor. In addition, students with their supervisor's guidance will have the opportunity to enroll in elective courses that will help them explore their research topic. These courses include: International Trade and Commercial Policy; International Finance; Development Planning; Public Sector Economics; Quantitative Analysis of Economic Policies, and Agricultural Economics. |
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FIRST-YEAR CURRICULUM |
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WINTER |
SPRING |
Economic Concepts
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Basic Microeconomics
Basic Macroeconomics |
Microeconomics
Macroeconomics |
Development Economics |
Analytical and
Computing
Skills |
Mathematics and Computing for Economics
Statistics for Business & Economics |
Applied Econometrics |
Research Methodology
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| Thesis Supervising |
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Advanced Seminar I |
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Elective Courses |
| Language Courses |
| The Second Year Curriculum |
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The second-year curriculum consists of disciplinary/analytical and country/regional elective courses. Practical and policy-oriented second-year courses strive to expand the theoretical knowledge and analytical capabilities developed from the first year in order to facilitate problem-identification and problem-solving in the international development arena.
In the second-year program, students create a unique program of study and write a Master's Thesis on a research topic of their choice while participating in advanced seminar sessions with their academic supervisors. To write a Master's Thesis and defend it are the most demanding component of the program. It gives students an opportunity to analyze their research topic in depth by integrating tools, methods, concepts, and theories that they have acquired in the entire two-year program as well as the skills and knowledge base that each student had developed in his or her previous professional and academic careers. |
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