GDEV at Cornell University

A suggested order for the 24 courses on the map, built from prerequisite chains and how often each course has run in fall and spring across the last 12 regular terms. It is not the department’s plan, and it is not a promise a course will run. Confirm against the department’s own advising material.

Gateway courses

Each of these unlocks the largest share of downstream work on this map. Courses from other departments can appear here when they genuinely gate GDEV coursework.

• GDEV 3105Post-Internship Course: Making Meaning and Moving Forward - Maximizing Engaged Learning Experiencesopens 1 course (1 directly)
• PLSCS 3210Soil and Crop Management for Sustainabilityopens 1 course (1 directly)

The map

Intro tiers at the top, advanced work below; arrows point from a prerequisite to the course it unlocks. Courses from other departments appear where they gate GDEV work. Click any course to see what it requires and unlocks without leaving this page; hovering lights up its neighbors. The lists on this page carry the same courses in text form.

Showing the 24 GDEV and feeder courses that have prerequisite links. 137 more GDEV courses have no recorded prerequisites. They are listed under Tracks below, not drawn as loose dots here.

Concentration routes

The concentrations and majors that build on GDEV, and how their requirements are structured. Expand a program to see which courses satisfy each group, then plan it in the Planner.

Tracks

Upper-level clusters, grouped by the gateway that opens them.

The longest ladders

The deepest prerequisite chains in GDEV. These are the routes that take the most semesters to climb.

• 3 courses deep, ending at GDEV 3106

  1. ALS 2300CALS Global Fellows International Internship Preparation Workshop
  2. GDEV 3105Post-Internship Course: Making Meaning and Moving Forward - Maximizing Engaged Learning Experiences
  3. GDEV 3106Professional Preparation for Global Development

• 3 courses deep, ending at GDEV 4140

  1. PLSCS 1900Sustainable Agriculture: Food, Farming, and the Future
  2. PLSCS 3210Soil and Crop Management for Sustainability
  3. GDEV 4140Global Cropping Systems and Sustainable Development

• 2 courses deep, ending at GDEV 2941

  1. GDEV 2940Preparing for Food Systems and Agriculture Engaged Experiences
  2. GDEV 2941Reflection on Agriculture Engaged Experiences

• 2 courses deep, ending at GDEV 4075

  1. GDEV 2130Introduction to Social Science Research Methods
  2. GDEV 4075Program Evaluation for Community-Based Organizations

Grade medians

Teaching in Fall 2026

Instructors on GDEV sections in Fall 2026, from the registrar's schedule.

• Abbey Baird
• Andrew Bell
• Christine Leuenberger
• Colleen Eils
• Edward Mabaya
• Eli Friedman
• Gunisha Kaur
• Heidi Mouillesseaux-Kunzman
• Jeffrey Perry
• Jenny Aker
• Jenny Goldstein
• John Sipple
• John Zinda
• Julie Carmalt
• Kristina Harrison
• Louise Buck
• M Adityanandana
• Mildred Warner
• Parfait Eloundou-Enyegue
• Peter Katzenstein
• Rachel Bezner Kerr
• Rebecca Nelson
• Richard Cahoon
• Sarah Giroux
• Sasha Endo
• Scott Peters
• Steven Wolf
• Terry Tucker
• Tom Hirschl
• Xingen Lei

Cornell professor board

Clubs & organizations

No clubs or organizations on record under GDEV yet.

Clubs students here join

Department events

GDEV does not run a page here yet. When it does, its events show up here and on the Cornell campus feed.