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The Edmund A. Walsh School of Foreign Service created the International Development Certificate (idevcert) in Fall 2006 to educate students for careers in the field of international development. The certificate is designed to help students think critically about development as an urgent global challenge and as a contested theoretical field. It has become the fastest growing certificate program at Georgetown since its approval by the SFS curriculum committee in 2006, nearly quadrupling the number of graduates in its first year from 11 in 2007 to 43 students in 2008. Currently, 60 seniors are on track to graduate with the International Development Certificate in 2010.

The university’s faculty — a community of scholars and practitioners — educate students to understand the many dimensions of global crises such as extreme poverty. While classroom teaching provides students with an understanding of the theoretical approaches to and outcomes of development, experiential learning opportunities in the developing world help them better understand the challenges of international development. Idevcert trains students to apply the lessons learned in the classroom to implementation of policies in the field and encourages them to seek innovative ideas and methods for facing the challenges of international development.

To learn more about idevcert, please visit our webpage.

Mailing list: Please feel free to join our email list by sending a request to idevcert@georgetown.edu

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