It is expected that students will have outside financial support as only candidates with exceptional academic qualifications may win fellowships in all-university competition. Degree Requirements Participants may draw upon a broad range of courses throughout Cornell University. Students with sufficient prior training in one or more of these areas of analysis may take courses in other areas to round out their analytical and action skills. Each student is also required to prepare a problem-solving project. The project entails either fieldwork or library work, and must be approved in advance by the students' advisors.
Students receive six credit hours for acceptable projects.
The aim of the projects is to give students supervised experience in dealing intellectually and analytically with a professional problem related to a substantive area of international development.