The Global Development Studies (GDS) Program offers an interdisciplinary minor that focuses on the transformations associated with development. Since development entails transformations at the individual, local, national, and global levels, the program consists of courses that address multiple thematic and regional dimensions of development processes.

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Students pursuing the Global Development Studies minor come from several disciplinary backgrounds and are active in a wide variety of co-curricular activities.

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Outside is Asian Town, an enclave built for migrant workers in Qatar, the country with the highest per capita income in the world and where about 90% of the population is temporary. Inside, across the table, one of these…
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Act One: Rising Prodigy Ravi Mantha ’94 was working his first job after college, at the very bottom of Russell Investments, binding financial reports for …
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They explored language and culture in Tokyo, theater in London, business in Milan, social change in the Czech Republic, and hundreds of other topics in dozens of other countries. And, as shown by these entries in Puget Sound’s…

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