Interdepartmental Program
College of Letters and Science

10274 Bunche Hall
Box 951487
Los Angeles, CA 90095-1487

International Development Studies
310-825-5187
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Michael F. Lofchie, PhD, Chair

Through an interdisciplinary lens, the International Development Studies major offers students the opportunity to study, analyze, and critically assess the social, political, and economic forces that, throughout history, have shaped inequality in the modern world. The central objective of the program is to engage students with debates around the widening patterns of disparities of wealth, power, privilege, and access to social justice that occur both within and between the countries of the global north and global south.