Courses
Courses from many departments are available to International Studies students. Because some of these courses have prerequisites and not all courses are offered every year, students are advised to carefully plan their program of study in consultation with their faculty advisor, our Peer Advisors, and/or our Director of Undergraduate Studies.
Click the buttons to see a list of pre-approved IS courses offered in the coming semester, or a complete list of nearly 500 pre-approved courses. (The latter does not indicate whether they are taught in a given semester, but is very helpful to look ahead for electives in your concentration theme.)
Course Audits are reports from the 海角社区 registration system (accessible through the Agora Portal) that chart a student's cumulative progress toward fulfilling graduation requirements. The IS Program's Advising Handbook describes how to read a Course Audit. If a class you've taken (e.g. an elective for an IS major concentration) doesn't appear in the proper part of your Course Audit, fill out a Course Substitution Form to say where it should be placed.聽This and other important forms can be found at the Academic Forms & Diploma Information page at the Office of Student Services.
IS majors and minors should fill out their course plans when they enter the program, and update them each semester. We encourage you to discuss your course plan with your faculty advisor each semester.
IS Core for Majors
Consult the 鈥淚S Core鈥� tab of the 鈥淧re-Approved IS Courses鈥� spreadsheet for the most up-to-date information on IS core courses for majors.
Notes
- All sophomore majors must enroll in both 鈥淲here on Earth鈥� courses (INTL 2200 and INTL 2204 lecture+discussion) in the Fall semester, and 鈥淚ntroduction to International Relations鈥� (INTL 2501 lecture+discussion) in the Spring semester.
- Majors may take Principles of Economics and approved Comparative Politics and upper-level Economics courses in any semeser
- Majors should take 鈥淓thics, Religion, and International Politics鈥� after returning from studying abroad, if they go abroad.
Foundation Courses for Minors
Consult the Courses spreadsheet for the most up-to-date information on courses that are pre-approved as Foundation 3 or 4 courses for the IS Minor.
Conflict and Cooperation Concentration
Consult the Courses spreadsheet for the most up-to-date information on courses that are pre-approved for the C&C concentration in the IS major and minor. Students may petition the Director of Undergraduate Studies to consider courses that are not on this list toward their elective concentration.
Global Cultures Concentration
Consult the Courses spreadsheet for the most up-to-date information on courses that are聽pre-approved for the GC concentration in the IS major and minor.
Notes
- Majors and minors who concentrate in Global Cultures should take only those electives that are pre-approved for their cluster ("Cultures at Work" or "Cultures and Social Movements").聽
- Students can seek approval to count other courses鈥攊ncluding courses from the other cluster鈥攁s electives by sending a course abstract and/or syllabus to the Director of Undergraduate Studies (Prof. Nakazato) before the first week of that class (and ideally during registration period).聽 聽
Political Economy and Development Studies Concentration
Consult the Courses spreadsheet for the most up-to-date information on courses that are聽pre-approved for the PEDS concentration in the IS major and minor.聽
Notes
- Majors and minors who concentrate in Political Economy and Development Studies can take electives approved for EITHER the PE or DS cluster and count them for their own cluster.聽
- Students can seek approval to count other courses as electives by sending a course abstract and/or syllabus to the Director of Undergraduate Studies (Prof. Nakazato) before the first week of that class (and ideally during registration period).
Senior Seminars and Thesis
2026鈥�27 Academic Year
Senior Thesis
Senior Thesis writers enroll in INTL4951 (Prof. Hiroshi Nakazato). Your first semester of INTL4952 will count as an elective in your concentration; the second semester will fulfill your senior project requirement.
Senior Seminars
New & Featured Courses
Summer Abroad
Contentious History and the Politics of Contemporary Korea: Decolonization, Division, Development, and Democratization聽(INTL/HIST 2856)
Prof. Ingu Hwang
June xx-July xx, 2024, based at Sogang University, Seoul, South Korea
Approved for聽CC, GC-SM,聽PEDS-PE/DS electives; also History elective聽
This introductory immersion course surveys the contentious intersection between history and politics in contemporary Korea on the topics of decolonization, division, development, and democratization. In addition to the class discussion, students will be guided to actively participate in the historical and cultural immersion/excursion programs, including the National Museum of Korean Contemporary History, the DMZ tour, and the Kim Dae-jung Presidential Library and Museum.聽
History of the Italian Mediterranean: Una Faccia, Una Razza聽(INTL 2251)
Prof.聽 Elizabeth Shlala
Located in Venice, Italy
NB: Electives are abbreviated as follows: CC = Conflict & Cooperation; ESJ = Ethics & Social Justice; GC-CW = Global Cultures/Cultuers at Work; GC-SM = Global Cultures/Social Movements; PEDS-DS = Political Economy & Development Studies/Development Studies focus;聽PEDS-PE = Political Economy & Development Studies/Political Economy focus.
- Art and Patronage in Renaissance and Baroque Rome and Beyond
Location: Rome, Italy
Professor: Guendalina Serafinelli
Approved for: GC-CW
- Borders and Refugees: The Ethics of Migration
Location: Athens, Greece
Professor:聽Micah Lott聽(Philosophy)
Approved for: CC, ESJ
- Contentious History and the Politics of Contemporary Korea: Decolonization, Division, Development, and Democratization
Location: Seoul, South Korea
Professor:聽Ingu Hwang
Approved for: CC, GC-SM, PEDS-PE, PEDS-DS
- The European Union: The Economic Shaping of Europe聽(ECON 2110)
Location: Lisbon, Portugal
Professor: Rui聽Albuquerque
Approved for: 2000-level Econ requirement; PEDS-PE/DS concentration elective听听
- Global Health Perspectives
Location: Quito, Ecuador
Professor:聽Rosemary Byrne, M.S.N
Approved for: 聽ESJ, PEDS-PE
- History of the Italian Mediterranean: Una Faccia, Una Razza
Location: Venice, Italy
Professor:聽Elizabeth Shlala
Approved for: GC-CW
- Imagination and Creativity in the Irish Landscape
Location: Ballyvaughn, Ireland
Professor:聽Candice Ivy
Approved for: GC-CW
- Modernism in Paris
Location: Paris, France
Professor:聽Thomas Epstein
Approved for: GC-CW
- Principles of Public Health: In the Happiest Place/ Public Health in a Global Society
Location: Copenhagen, Denmark
Professors:聽Joyce Edmonds,聽Summer Hawkins
Approved for: ESJ, PEDS-DS
- Provence: Art, Culture, Cinema, Diversity
Location: Aix-en-Provence, France
Professor:聽Andr茅a Javel
Approved for: GC-CW
- Saints and Sinners
Location: Rome, Italy
Professor:聽Liam Bergin
Approved for: GC-CW
- Restorative Justice and Prison Reform in Global Contexts: Australia
Location:聽Sydney, Australia
Prof. Julia DeVoy聽 //聽July 16聽- August 13, 2022
Approved for: ESJ
听听
- Spanish Art History: from Al-Andalus to Picasso
Location: Madrid, Spain
Professor:聽Ana Pel谩ez
Approved for: GC-CW
- An Innovative Economy: Smart Cities and the Start-Up Culture in Tel Aviv, Israel
Location: Tel Aviv, Italy
Professor:聽Edward Chazen
Approved for: GC-CW, PEDS-DS
- The Business, History & Politics of Sport
Location: Dublin, Ireland
Professor:聽Michael Cronin
Approved for: GC-CW
- The Ethics of Capitalism: Flourishing in a Commercial Society
Location: Copenhagen, Denmark
Professor:聽Jeremy Evans
Approved for: ESJ, PEDS-PE, PEDS-DS
- The Imaginary City: Why Writers Love Venice
Location:聽Kevin Newmark
Professor: Venice, Italy
Approved for: 聽GC-CW
- Which is Better? An Economic Comparison of Health and Health Care in France, the UK and the US
Locations: London, UK + Paris, France
Professor: Tracy Regan
Approved for: 聽ESJ, PEDS-PE, PEDS-DS