Application Graduate Certificate of Concentration in Development Studies Name ______________________ First Student ID ___________________ _______________________ Middle ____________________________ Last Citizenship _________________________ Gender ____________ Academic Year Address ________________________________________________________________________ ______________________________ E-mail ____________________________________ Telephone(s) Department or School Current Year of Study (1st, 2nd …) _______________________ Degree sought ______________________________ Career plans after graduation Expected graduation date _________________ ________________________ _____________________________________________________________ ____________________________________________________________________________________________ Level of proficiency in languages _________________________________________________________________ ____________________________________________________________________________________________ Confirmation of student eligibility by Department or School (application will not be considered unless this section is complete.) I certify that the applicant is a registered graduate student in good standing. _____________________________ Name (please print) ____________________________________________ Signature of DGS or Professional School Officer _______________________ Date A complete application must contain: 1. Application Sheet (this page). 2. Proposed Academic Plan (next page) to complete certificate requirements. Include documentation of language proficiency and economic coursework if completed somewhere other than Yale. 3. Personal Statement relating the certificate to your degree program and career plans (not to exceed two typewritten pages). Discuss how specific courses and language proficiency are relevant to the Certificate. 4. A copy of your most recent Yale transcript. 5. Signature of eligibility from your DGS or Professional School Officer. Applications must be submitted no later than the beginning of the penultimate term of study. For further information, see the Graduate Certificate Advisor for Development Studies. For Office Use Only: Date application received: ____________________________________________________________ Date application approved or rejected: ____________________________________ ____________ (circle one) Signature Date updated Fall 2010 Proposed Academic Plan Graduate Certificate of Concentration in Development Studies Name of candidate __________________________________________________________________ Home department or school I. __________________________________________________________ Courses to meet Certificate requirements: List the courses that you have taken or that you plan to take to meet the certificate requirements. Recognizing that course offerings change from year to year, you may substitute other courses for the ones that you list here, with the faculty advisor’s approval and within the guidelines below. < 2 courses may be directed readings/independent study courses < 4 courses may be from any one discipline or School A minimum grade of HP must be attained Undergraduate courses do not count toward Graduate Certificates Course # & Title Professor Term/Year Grade (if completed) 1 2 3 4 5 6 II. Language Proficiency: Students must demonstrate proficiency of a major world language – other than English – relevant to development studies or to the region on which the candidate is focusing, with two years of language study at Yale or the equivalent; translation exams are not sufficient. Language __________________________________________________________________________ How will proficiency be demonstrated? ___________________________________________________ III. Economics Proficiency: Students must demonstrate proficiency in the basic concepts of economics, either by demonstrating substantial prior coursework in economics or by taking a graduate or professional level economics course at Yale. (A basic course in economics will not count as one of the six courses required for the certificate.) Coursework _________________________________________________________________________ IV. Research Paper Plan: The qualifying paper must demonstrate the ability to use interdisciplinary resources in development studies, including – where appropriate – primary sources, field research, data analysis, and non-English sources Course, Semester, and Professor _________________________________________________________ Paper Title __________________________________________________________________________