UCLA’s undergraduate International Development Studies Program had about 25 students when it opened in 1987, making it one of the smaller programs on the school’s sprawling Los Angeles campus, according to department chairman Mike Lofchie.
Times have changed.
This year, UCLA has 430 students in the development studies program, which, according Lofchie, a specialist in comparative politics and African studies, makes the major larger than some of the departments on the school’s Los Angeles campus.