Poverty Studies Minor

an internship

The poverty studies internship must deal directly with people living in poverty and must be completed as an 8-10 week full-time summer experience. Normally, the internship will be undertaken after successful completion of PVS-101  and completed prior to the beginning of the junior year. Sites must be approved by the Poverty Studies Coordinator and Furman’s Internship Program Director.

and, at least five more courses:

With no more than two from any one discipline, which must include at least one course from either economics or political science.

No more than one May Experience may contribute to minor requirements.

• AST-250 Human Development in Contemporary Asia
• AST-255 Poverty, Gender and Development in India
• ECN-233 Economics of Gender
• ECN-234 Urban Economics
• ECN-237 Economics of Poverty and Inequality
• ECN-245 Development Economics
• EDU-111 Perspectives on American Education
• EDU-115 Depiction of Schools on Film
• EDU-260 What Makes a Great Teacher
• FRN-445 African Novel in French
• HSC-153 The First Thousand Days: Nicaraguan Study
• HSC-305 Global Public Health
• HST-142 Latin America in the Modern World
• HST-145 Africa in the Modern World
• HST-233 American Immigration History
• HST-307 Life on the Margins in Early Modern Europe
• HST-352 Travel Study in Latin America
• MLL-245 African Literature
• MXP-126 Coffee Culture: Past to Present, Farm to Cup
• MXP-300 Poverty, Medicine and the Law: Greenville’s Medical-Legal Partnership
• PHL-260 Latin American Philosophy
• PHL-270 Africana Philosophies
• PHL-304 Ethics of Globalization
• PHL-310 Social and Political Philosophy
• POL-204 Civil Rights and the United States Constitution
• POL-205 Public Policy in the United States
• POL-208 Urban Politics
• POL-211 Racial and Ethnic Politics
• POL-223 Politics of Developing Nations
• POL-224 Politics of Africa
• POL-226 Politics of China
• POL-229 Politics of Asia
• POL-230 Politics of Latin America
• POL-256 Politics of the Global Economy
• POL-415 Poverty and the Law
• PSY-210 Poverty and Child Development
• PVS-101 Introduction to Poverty Studies
• PVS-102 Living in Poverty
• REL-233 Martin Luther King and the Religion of Social Reform
• REL-332 Wealth and Poverty in Christian Tradition
• REL-340 Faith and Ethics
• SOC-150 Public Sociology: Housing in America
• SOC-223 Urban Community
• SOC-241 Social Class in America
• SOC-243 Race and Ethnic Relations
• SOC-260 Global Health Inequalities
• SOC-262 Social Determinants of Health
• SPN-240 Latin American Civilization