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 D220: Processes of International Negotiation
2. DHP H200 The Foreign Relations of the United States to 1917
3. DHP H201 The Foreign Relations of the United States Since 1917
4. DHP P200 International Relations: Theory and Practice
5. DHP P219 International Political Economy of Development
6. DHP P221 International Political Economy
7. 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 Order
2. ILO L220 International Organizations
3. ILO L230 International Business Transactions
4. ILO L250 Law and Development
5. ILO L251 Comparative Legal Systems
Division of Economics and International Business (EIB)
Each MALD student is required to take either EIB E200: Introduction to International Trade and Finance, or EIB E201: Introduction to Economic Theory. Students who pass the economics placement test shall not be required to take either course but shall instead be required to take one of the following courses:
1. EIB E211 Microeconomics*
2. EIB E212 Macroeconomics
3. EIB E220 International Trade and Investment
4. EIB E230 International Finance
5. EIB E240 Development Economics
6. EIB E246 Natural Resource and Environmental Economics
7. EIB E261 Transnational Labor Economics Issues
*Students who enroll in and pass the course E211 without having taken E200 or E201 have also satisfied the divisional requirement for economics and international business and are not required to take the E201 economics placement test.
Quantitative Reasoning
Each MALD student who does not pass the quantitative reasoning placement test would be required to take one of the following courses:
1. EIB B205 Statistics for Decision
Making
2. EIB E213: Econometrics
3. DHP P203: Analytic Frameworks for International Public
Policy Decisions* or
4. The two-module sequence of EIB E210m Quantitative Methods and DHP
P210m Statistical Methods
*DHP P203 may not be used to satisfy the second required DHP course.
