- two courses in the Division of Diplomacy, History and Politics
- one course in the Division of International Law and Organization
- one course in the Division of Economics and International Business
- one course in Quantitative Reasoning.
Specific requirements/options for each of the three divisions as well as Quantitative Reasoning are noted below.
Students who have performed equivalent graduate level work for courses listed below may apply for equivalence with the approval of the appropriate Fletcher instructor. Students who receive equivalence must still meet the requirement of pursuing one or two courses in the division but may choose from any course in the division rather than just those listed below.
MA degree candidates can meet the breadth requirement by taking one course from each division (ILO, DHP, and EIB). PhD degree candidates must complete at least two courses in your choice of two of the three divisions and at least one course from the remaining division.
Division of Diplomacy, History, and Politics (DHP)
Each MALD student is required to take two courses from the DHP Division. One of those courses must be one of the following:
1. DHP D210: The Art and Science of Statecraft
2. DHP D220: Processes of International Negotiation
3. DHP H200 The Foreign Relations of the United States to 1917
4. DHP H201 The Foreign Relations of the United States from 1917
5. DHP P201 Comparative Politics
6. DHP P200 International Relations: Theory and Practice
7. DHP P217 Global Political Economy
8. DHP P219 International Political Economy of Development
9. DHP P221 International Political Economy
10. DHP P240 The Role of Force in International Politics
Division of International Law and Organization (ILO)
Each MALD student is required to take one of the following courses:
1. ILO L200 The International Legal Order2. ILO L210 International Human Rights Law
3. ILO L220 International Organizations
4. ILO L230 International Business Transactions
5. ILO L250 Law and Development
6. ILO L251 Comparative Legal Systems
Division of Economics and International Business (EIB)
Each MALD student is required to take EIB E201 Introduction to Economic Theory.
At the beginning of each semester, a placement test is organized for E201. Students who pass the E201 must take another economics course for their breadth requirement. They can chose from the following list:
1. EIB E210m Quantitative Methods and EIB E211m Microeconomics
2. EIB E220 International Trade and Investment
3. EIB E230 International Finance
4. EIB E240 Development Economics
5. EIB E246 Natural Resource and Environmental Economics
Students must take one of the following 5 courses to satisfy this requirement. Placement tests exist for 2 of those courses: if students pass one of a placement test, they have satisfied the quantitative reasoning requirement. Read more about these courses at the quantitative reasoning page.
1. EIB B205 Statistics
2. EIB E210m: Quantitative Methods
3. EIB E213: Econometrics
4. DHP P203: Analytic Frameworks for International Public
Policy Decisions*
5. EIB B262: Marketing Research and Analysis
*DHP P203 may not be used to satisfy the second required DHP course.