(Please note: 3 additional courses in an approved "track" are also required. See: Track lists).
Required International Studies Curriculum
(these 8 courses are all
required)
ECON 200 Micro Economics
ECON 201 Macroeconomics or
SIS 123 Introduction to
Globalization
SIS 200 States & Capitalism: Origins of the Modern Global System
SIS 201 Introduction to International Political Economy
SIS 202 Cultural Interactions in an Interdependent World
SIS 401 International Political Economy
SIS 495 Task Force (Open only to IS majors)
SIS 498 Readings in International Studies (Open only to IS majors)
Core Course List - Advanced Topics in International Studies
(3
courses required from this list)
SIS 216 Science and
Society (with PHYS 216)
SIS 301 War (with SOC 301)
SIS 302 Intercultural Relations
SIS 325 Immigration
SIS 330 Political Economy of Development
SIS 332 Political Economy of International Trade & Finance
SIS 333 Gender and Globalization (with WOMEN 333)
SIS 335 Geography of the Developing World (with GEOG 335)
SIS 337 Collective Violence and the State (with POL S 337)
SIS 340 Comparative Communism and Post-Communism
SIS 342 Social Theory and Contemporary Problems
SIS 344 Migration in the Global Economy (with GEOG 344)
SIS 345 Gender and International Economic Development (with ANTH/WOMEN
345)
SIS 348 Alternative Routes to Modernity (with HSTAS 348)
SIS 350 Environmental Norms in International Politics (with SCAND
350)
SIS 360 Technology, Growth and Competition
SIS 362 Law and
Justice: An Introduction to
Social Theory (with LSJ 362)
SIS 365 World Cities
SIS 375 Geopolitics (with GEOG 375)
SIS 390 Political Economy of Industrialized Nations
SIS 405 Political Economy of Religious Institutions
SIS 406 Political Islam (with POL S 432)
SIS 410 Introduction to Global Internet Political Economy
SIS 421 National Security and International Affairs
SIS 422 The U.S. and the Contemporary International System
SIS 423 Practicing American Foreign Policy
SIS 425 International Law and Arms Control
SIS 426 World Politics (with POL S 426)
SIS 430 International Population Issues
SIS 432 Population and Modernization (with SOC 432)
SIS 433 Environmental Degradation in the Tropics (with ENVIR 433)
SIS 436 Ethnic Politics and Nationalism (with POL S 436)
SIS 438 Forced
Migrations
SIS 440 History of Communism (with HSTEU 440)
SIS 444 Peasants and Politics (with POL S 446)
SIS 446 History, Memory and Justice
SIS 449 Social Change in East Asia (with ANTH 449)
SIS 450 Political Economy of Women & Family in the Third World
(with SOC 450)
SIS 452 Law and
Politics and International Trade
SIS 455 Industry and the State
SIS 456 State-Society Relations in the Third World (with POL S 450)
SIS 460 Law, State and Society
SIS 465 Deeply Divided Societies
SIS 467 Nations and States in the Modern World (with HIST 467)
SIS 470 Human Rights in Transitional Societies (with LSJ 410)
SIS 476 Comparative International Political Economy
SIS 480 Catholic Church in World Affairs
SIS 490 Advanced Topics in International Studies (varies yearly)
GEOG 371 World Hunger and Resource Development
GEOG 401 Culture, Capital & The City
POL S 328 International Organizations
POL S 356 Society & Politics (with SOC 356)
POL S 418 Multinational Corporations and World Order
POL S 367 Law, Societies and Justice (w/LSJ 367)
POL S 425 War and Deterrence
POL S 427 International Political Economy
SISEA/SOC 434 Demographic Issues in Asia (Comparative Demographic Issues)
SISME 420 International
Humanitarian Law
SISRE 424 Security Affairs
SOC 331 Population and Society
SOC 456 Political Sociology (Ethnicity and Nationalism)
SOC 466 Economic Sociology
WOMEN 305 Feminism in an International Context
Revised 10/20/2006