Unfiltered List of Courses Recommended by Former Students

Note: This list is largely compiled based on feedback received after completion of Capstone.

Last updated: May 1st 2025

  • ‘Humanitarian Assistance in Conflict’ by Ernest Ogbozor.
  • Bottom-up Development by Bob Maguire (with guest lectures by me)
  • Gender Advisor Roles and Skills by Andrea Bertone
  • Gender skills course
  • IAFF 6118 - Applied Qualitative Research Methods
  • Mixed Methods in Global Gender Issues (IAFF6118.15)
  • Power, Politics, and Development in Africa
  • PPPA 6002 - Research Methods and Applied Statistics
  • PPPA 6059 (Intl Dev Management Processes and Tools)
  • Private Sector Development
  • Qualitative methodology - The Colombia College course
  • Research Methods in Gender Studies by Jane Henrici
  • SOC 6232 (Soc Doing Fieldwork)/Qualtiative Field Research Methods
  • GEOG 6292 - Qualitative Methods in Geography (Dr. Marie Price)
  • Participatory Skills Course
  • Entrepreneurship Course List
  • IAFF 6118 O10: Capacity building for organizations serving migrant youth in Thailand
  • Gender and Development
  • Writing for International Affairs/Writing for International Policymakers
  • International Development Administration
  • Financial Management of Public and Non-Profit Organizations (PPPA 6053)
  • Gender, Monitoring and Evaluation
  • Negotiation Skills Course (Decision sciences course)
  • Monitoring and Evaluation for Foreign Affairs Professionals
  • Private Sector Development with Peter Harrold
  • Civil Society Society and Development with Larry Garber
  • International Development Management Processes and Tools
  • Quantitative Analysis Research Methods
  • Methods in Socio-Cultural Anthropology
  • Research Methods for Global Gender
  • Participatory M&E for Development
  • Participatory Planning
  • Development Project Implementation
  • Power, Politics and Dev in Africa
  • PPPA 6058: NGO MANAGEMENT AND INTERNATIONAL DEVELOPMENT
  • Big Data in International Business
  • Bottom Up Development
  • Managing the World’s Water
  • Migration and Development
  • Applied Development Economics course (with Prof. Flagge)
  • Participatory planning skills course
  • Localizing Humanitarian Action
  • Humanitarian Governance and Policy
  • M&E for foreign assistance Programs with Dr. Rajeev Colacao
  • Milken global health electives (PUBH 6400 - 6499) and skip any "core" MPH classes (PUBH 6000 - 6012)
  • Development Project Implementation
  • Climate Change & Environmental Policy in MENA
  • IAFF 6138 Violence, Gender, & Humanitarian Assistance
  • IAFF 6186 International Peacekeeping
  • IAFF 6138 Monitoring & Evaluation for Foreign Assistance Programs
  • IAFF 6138: Human Trafficking
  • Education in Emergencies
  • Inside a U.S. Embassy
  • Transnational Security with Rollie Lal
  • Violence, Gender and Humanitarian Assistance with Leora Ward and Elizabeth Pender
  • Qualitative Research Method
  • Development Policy & Practice
  • Education in Emergencies
  • Development Project Implementation
  • Participatory Learning Approaches
  • EDUC 8122: Introduction to Qualitative Research Methods (Dr. Sandra Vanderbilt)
  • MONITORING, EVALUATION AND LEARNING FOR FOREIGN ASSISTANCE PROGRAMS (Professor Rajeev Colaço)
  • Advocating for Women's Rights with Lyric Thompson skills course
  • Research Methods in Global Gender Issues with Henrici
  • Applied Qualitative Methods
  • Anthropology of Development with Stephen Lubkemman
  • Achieving Sustainable Development
  • Solutions in Sustainable Development: Short-term abroad course
  • Big Data in International Business
  • Creating Data Rich Reports (skills course)
  • Africa and the Global Economy
  • Achieving Sustainable Development
  • Qualitative Research Methods
  • Bottom-Up Development
  • Development Project Implementation
  • Qualitative Research Methods in International Affairs
  • MEL for International Development Programs
  • Strategic Environmental Management by Jorge Rivera
  • Localization in HA
  • Geography & Migration
  • Bottom-Up Development w/ Professor Maguire
  • Migration and Development
  • Gender, Disaster, and Development
  • Locally Led Humanitarian Assistance
  • Gender and Development
  • Indigenous Peoples, Ethnic Minorities & Development
  • Gender Role Advisor
  • Formal Briefing
  • IAFF-6503: Strategic Communications (skills)
  • IAFF-6138: Bottom-up Development
  • IAFF-6138: MEL for Int'l Dev Programs
  • IAFF-6502: Int'l Non-profit Management (skills)
  • IAFF-6503: Participatory Planning (skills)
  • IAFF-6138: Development Project Implementation (summer)
  • Research Methods in Socio-Cultural Anthropology with Dr. Sarah Wagner