political science

LauraN
Mon, 24 May 2010 22:56:11 +0000

There’s lots of cool stuff going on around MIT in International Development.

Check out [MIT International Development Initiative (IDI)](http://web.mit.edu/idi/) for a broad overview.

On the academic side, D-Lab ([Academic Offerings | D-Lab](http://d-lab.mit.edu/)) used to be just one course in product design for the developing world, but it’s been really expanding in recent years. Now there are all sorts of flavors of it- energy, health, IT, etc. Most of them explicitly state that they are non-engineering-major friendly.

I actually got a degree in 2A (flexible mechanical engineering) with D-Lab, a class on sustainable energy, a class on water and sanitation in developing countries, a class on participatory development, and a thesis in Innovations in International Health ([Innovations in International Health :: MIT](http://iih.mit.edu/)).

MIT also has a pretty awesome poli sci department in general from what I understand, but I don’t know anything interesting about it personally.