Social Policy, MID

The concentration in Social Policy appeals to students who are committed to the study of social issues of public importance, who would like to pursue careers analyzing social needs and policy impacts as well as advocating for improved policies and implementation. To that effect, the curriculum offers courses on pressing social problems both in the U.S. and other parts of the world, and highlights linkages between inequality and discrimination, conflict, poverty, political and community participation, and social mobility. Students are trained in essential methods such as policy analysis and other rigorous tools of social science to bear on these important policy questions.

This concentration enables International Development students to address core development problems in diverse contexts worldwide, including those highlighted in the UN Sustainable Development Goals, by taking courses on topics such as poverty and inequality, food insecurity, global health, gender and development, economic growth, human rights and the SDGs, and environmental sustainability.