2024-2025 Undergraduate Catalog
International Studies, BA (Co-Major)
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The International Studies co-major is available to all Dietrich School undergraduate students and is comprised of five choice categores: Introduction to the International; International State Actors, Globalization, and Critiques of Global Power; Non-State Actors and Transboundary Issues; Global Dialogues; and Practitioner Skils. Students who pursue the International Studies co-major will build knowlege and understanding of the following areas:
- cross-border differences, commonalities, actors, and agency
- state actors and sovereignty, power, and globalization
- non-state international actors, transboundary issues, and social movements
- how individual and collective voices express, connect with, and represent - or not - international issues
- tools, methods, and training in skills such as language training, policy/grant writing, data/data visualization
Students pursuing this co-major will be pursuing at least one additional, traditional major.
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Introduction to the International
An initial introduction to cross-border differences, commonalities, actors, and agency. Choose one of the following courses; this list is a sample of available offerings.
International State Actors, Globalization, and Critiques of Global Power
Exposure to the way that state actors and notions of sovereignty set certain expectations for power and realities of international action, and the way that globalization changes those notions and brings increased space for critique of them. Choose at least one of the following courses; this list is a sample of available offerings. Non-State Actors and Transboundary Issues
Exposure to groups of non-state international actors, ranging from social movements to influencers, documentarians to authors, nonprofits to international organizations, and any other pathways of international power, including transboundary issues such as crime, pollution, refugees, and economic actions. Choose at least one of the following courses; this list is a sample of available offerings. - ARC 0116 - GLOBAL ARCHITECTURE 2: MODERN
- ARC 1330 - GLOBAL PRESERVATION
- AFRCNA 0628 - AFRO-LATIN AMERICA
- AFRCNA 1012 - EARLY 20TH CENTURY BLACK SOCIAL MOVEMENT
- AFRCNA 1250 - BLACK EUROPE
- AFRCNA 1330 - SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY IN AFRICANA CONTEXT
- AFRCNA 1510 - HEALTH IN THE AFRICAN DIASPORA
- ECON 0110 - INTRODUCTION TO MACROECONOMIC THEORY
- ECON 0530 - INTRODUCTION TO DEVELOPMENT ECONOMICS
- ENGFLM 0540 - WORLD FILM HISTORY
- ENGLIT 0710 - CONTEMPORARY ENVIRONMENTAL LITERATURE
- FR 0006 - SPECIAL TOPICS IN CONVERSATION AND CULTURE
- FR 0012 - FRENCH KISS: LOVE, SEX, FRANCE
- FR 0014 - INTRODUCTION TO FRENCH-SPEAKING CANADA
- FR 0016 - HISTORY OF FRENCH CINEMA
- FR 0017 - PARIS: URBANISM PAST AND PRESENT
- FR 0090 - EURO CHIC: THE INVENTION OF FASHION
- FR 0221 - READING FRENCH: LITERATURE, MEDIA, CULTURE
- FR 0227 - THE FRENCH ATLANTIC
- FR 1025 - THE IDEA OF FRANCE
- FR 1036 - GREEN FRANCE: SITUATED ECOLOGIES
- FR 1052 - SPECIAL TOPICS IN FRENCH CIVILIZATION
- FR 1053 - GLOBAL FRENCH
- FR 1059 - 20TH CENTURY FRENCH CIVILIZATION: SPECIAL TOPIC
- FR 1065 - GENDER, SEXUALITY, AND FRENCH THOUGHT
- FR 1070 - GENDER AND SEXUALITY IN 21ST CENTURY FRANCE
- FR 1090 - INTRODUCTION TO TRANSLATION STUDIES
- GER 1004 - THE GERMAN BUSINESS (ECO)SYSTEM
- GER 1108 - GREEN GERMANY
- GER 1390 - MINORITIES IN POST-WAR GERMANY
- GER 1409 - EUROPEAN INTELLECTUAL HIST 2 1870-1940
- GER 1504 - EUROPEAN IDENTITY BETWEEN HISTORY AND EUROPEAN UNION CULTURAL POLICY
- GER 1540 - NIETZSCHE AND THE NIETZSCHEANS
- GER 1542 - MARX AND MARXISM
- GER 1544 - FREUD AND FREUDIANS
- GER 1545 - NAZI CULTURE
- GER 1546 - HOLOCAUST LITERATURE AND FILM
- GSWS 1300 - WANDERLUST: SEX & GENDER IN GLOBAL TOURISM
- GSWS 1450 - GENDER AND SUSTAINABILITY
- HAA 0020 - INTRODUCTION TO ASIAN ART
- HAA 0050 - INTRODUCTION TO MEDIEVAL ART
- HAA 0090 - INTRODUCTION TO CONTEMPORARY ART
- HAA 0302 - RENAISSANCE ART
- HAA 1026 - EXHIBITIONS: FROM WORLD’S FAIRS TO GLOBAL BIENNIALS
- HAA 1455 - ART IN THE THIRD REICH AND MEMORIALIZATIONS OF THE HOLOCAUST
- HIST 0705 - AN ENVIRONMENTAL AND CLIMATE HISTORY OF THE WORLD
- HIST 0709 - HISTORY OF GLOBAL HEALTH
- HIST 1060 - THE GLOBAL HISTORY OF PIRACY
- ITAL 0080 - RENAISSANCE ITALY: HUMANISM, POWER & THE ARTS
- ITAL 0081 - MADE IN ITALY:INGENUITY, SINGULARITY, STYLE
- ITAL 0087 - FOOD FOR THOUGHT: ITALIAN FOOD CULTURE
- ITAL 0088 - ITALIAN AMERICA ON SCREEN
- ITAL 0089 - HISTORY OF ITALIAN CINEMA
- ITAL 0090 - EURO CHIC: THE INVENTION OF FASHION
- ITAL 0110 - MODERN ITALY
- ITAL 0113 - MODERN AND CONTEMPORARY CULTURE
- ITAL 1079 - INTRO TO HOLOCAUST LITERATURE
- ITAL 1084 - INTERCULTURE AND MIGRATION
- POLISH 0325 - THE SHORT STORY
- PS 1503 - INTERNATIONAL ORGANIZATION
- PS 1536 - HUMAN SECURITY
- PS 1542 - GLOBAL ENVIRONMENTAL POLITICS
- RELGST 1445 - MUSLIM POLITICS IN REAL TIME
- RELGST 1250 - JEWS AND JUDAISM IN THE MODERN WORLD
- RELGST 1252 - HOLOCAUST HISTORY AND MEMORY
- RELGST 0105 - RELIGIONS OF THE WEST
- RELGST 0455 - INTRODUCTION TO ISLAMIC CIVILIZATION
- RELGST 0505 - RELIGION IN ASIA
- RELGST 0525 - RELIGION AND CULTURE IN EAST ASIA
- RELGST 1240 - JEWS AND THE CITY
- RELGST 1241 - GENDER AND JEWISH HISTORY
- RELGST 1370 - GLOBAL CHRISTIANITY
- RELGST 1372 - CATHOLICISM IN THE NEW WORLD
- RELGST 1420 - RELIGION AND RACE
- RELGST 1455 - ISLAM IN EUROPE
- RELGST 1456 - ISLAM IN ASIA
- RELGST 1519 - RELIGION, NATURE AND ENVIRONMENT
- RELGST 1644 - CHRISTIAN MUSLIMS JEWS IN THE MIDDLE AGES: CONNECTION & CONFLICT
- RUSS 0325 - THE RUSSIAN SHORT STORY
- RUSS 0810 - UTOPIA, SOCIALISM, DISSENT: INTRODUCTION TO MODERN RUSSIAN LITERATURE
- RUSS 0850 - APPROPRIATING THE PAST: THE EARLY HISTORY AND CULTURES OF THE EASTERN SLAVS, 988-1825
- RUSS 0860 - MODERN RUSSIAN CULTURE
- SOC 0352 - SOCIAL MOVEMENTS
- RUSS 0870 - RUSSIAN FILM: EISENSTEIN AND COMPANY
- RUSS 0871 - RUSSIAN FILM STALIN TO PUTIN
- SOC 1319 - IMMIGRATION
- SOC 1445 - SOCIETY AND ENVIRONMENT
- SLAV 0660 - SCI-FI: EAST AND WEST
- SLAV 1225 - BEHIND BARS: CROSS CULTURAL REPRESENTATIONS OF PRISON IN THE 20TH CENTURY
- SLAV 1850 - UNDERSTANDING THE BALKANS: INTRODUCTION TO BALKAN CULTURE AND LITERATURE
- SPAN 1418 - VIOLENT VISIONS: REPRESENTATIONS/AESTHETICS OF VIOLENCE IN CONTEMPORARY LATIN AMERICA
- SPAN 1419 - DRUGS, MONEY AND VIOLENCE: NARCO-CULTURE IN LATIN AMERICAN FILM
- SPAN 1423 - SEXUAL DIVERSITY IN LATIN AMERICAN LITERATURE AND CULTURE
- SPAN 1432 - WRITING FEMINISM
- SPAN 1438 - AFRO-HISPANIC CULTURAL PRODUCTION: AFRO HISPANIC WRITERS
- SPAN 1439 - QUEER MEXICO
- SPAN 1442 - INDIOS CHINOS, INCA WITCHES, AFRICAN HEALERS, CRYPTO JEWISH, AND OLD CHRISTIANS REFLECTION
- SPAN 1453 - AVANT GARDE MOVEMENTS IN LATIN AMERICA
- SPAN 1455 - BORDER STUDIES
- SPAN 1456 - LATIN AMERICAN SOCIAL MOVEMENTS
- SPAN 1707 - AFRCN PRESEN LAT AMERN LIT/CULT
- URBNST 0010 - INTRODUCTION TO URBAN STUDIES
- URBNST 0360 - INTERNATIONAL URBANISM SEMINAR
- URBNST 0100 - WORLD URBAN PATTERNS
Global Dialogues
Understand the way that individual and collective voices express and connect with international studies issues, how can be manifested in a variety of ways, and ensure that future participants in the international domain learn early on that listening to voices from all spaces should inform their understandings of policy, life, and/or reality. This area is one of two areas within the co-major where language training fills the requirement. Language courses beyond the first year of language sequence (e.g. third and fourth semester courses and higher) are places where students are connecting their language learning with the cultural frameworks in which those languages are practiced and dispersed. Students can also utilize Study Abroad, as a central way to understand global voices is to hear them directly by living among them, to meet this requirement. Choose at least one of the following courses; this list is a sample of available offerings. - AFRCNA 0242 - AFRICANA URBAN WOMAN
- AFRCNA 1240 - AFRICAN LITERATURE AND SOCIETY
- AFRCNA 1555 - AFRO CARIBBEAN DANCE
- AFRCNA 1347 - FRANCOPHONE AFRICANA LITERATURE
- AFRCNA 1349 - CONTEMPORARY CARIBBEAN LITERATURE
- ARC 0112 - GLOBAL ARCHITECTURE 1
- ARC 0114 - ART AND ARCHITECTURE OF THE MUSLIM WORLD
- ARC 0116 - GLOBAL ARCHITECTURE 2: MODERN
- ARC 1183 - DIGITAL ROMAN AFRICA: VISUALIZING ARCHITECTURE AND URBANISM IN ROMAN NORTH AFRICA
- CHIN 0003 - SECOND YEAR CHINESE 1
- CHIN 0004 - SECOND YEAR CHINESE 2
- CHIN 0005 - CHINESE FOR HERITAGE SPEAKERS
- CHIN 0007 - INTRODUCTION TO CHINESE CIVILIZATION AND CULTURE
- CHIN 1009 - THIRD-YEAR CHINESE 1
- CHIN 1010 - THIRD-YEAR CHINESE 2
- CHIN 1033 - SPECIAL TOPICS: ADVANCED CHINESE ACROSS GENRES
- CHIN 1050 - FOURTH YEAR CHINESE 1
- CHIN 1051 - FOURTH YEAR CHINESE 2
- ENGLIT 0720 - GLOBAL FICTIONS
- FR 1053 - GLOBAL FRENCH
- HAA 0030 - INTRODUCTION TO MODERN ART
- HAA 0380 - ART OF THE SPANISH WORLD: RELIGION, IDENTITY & THE ART OF ACCOMMODATION
- HAA 0460 - ART IN PUBLIC: INCLUSION , IDENTITY, AND ACTIVISM
- HAA 0620 - ART OF CHINA
- HAA 0730 - ART AND ARCHITECTURE OF THE MUSLIM WORLD
- HAA 1440 - EXPRESSIONISM
- ITAL 0081 - MADE IN ITALY:INGENUITY, SINGULARITY, STYLE
- ITAL 0087 - FOOD FOR THOUGHT: ITALIAN FOOD CULTURE
- ITAL 0088 - ITALIAN AMERICA ON SCREEN
- ITAL 0089 - HISTORY OF ITALIAN CINEMA
- ITAL 1071 - THE ETERNAL CITY: ROME FROM ANTIQUITY TO TODAY
- ITAL 1079 - INTRO TO HOLOCAUST LITERATURE
- ITAL 1084 - INTERCULTURE AND MIGRATION
- ITAL 1088 - TOPICS ITALIAN AMERICAN STUDIES
- JPNSE 0003 - SECOND YEAR JAPANESE 1
- JPNSE 0004 - SECOND YEAR JAPANESE 2
- JPNSE 0007 - JAPANESE CULTURE AND CIVILIZATION
- JPNSE 1020 - THIRD YEAR JAPANESE 1
- JPNSE 1021 - THIRD YEAR JAPANESE 2
- JPNSE 1035 - PRAGMATICS OF JAPANESE
- JPNSE 1050 - FOURTH YEAR JAPANESE 1
- JPNSE 1800 - SPECIAL TOPICS
- KOREAN 0007 - INTRODUCTION TO KOREAN CULTURE AND CIVILIZATION
- KOREAN 1050 - FOURTH YEAR KOREAN 1
- KOREAN 1051 - FOURTH YEAR KOREAN 2
- KOREAN 1080 - CONTEMPORARY KOREAN CULTURE
- POLISH 0030 - INTERMEDIATE POLISH 3
- POLISH 0325 - THE SHORT STORY
- PORT 1458 - CULTURES OF THE PORTUGUESE SPEAKING WORLD
- RELGST 1170 - ARCHAEOLOGY OF ISRAEL-PALESTINE
- RELGST 1160 - JERUSALEM: HISTORY AND IMAGINATION
- RELGST 1452 - HYMNS & HIPHOP: SOUNDS OF ISLAM
- RELGST 1520 - BUDDHISM ALONG THE SILK ROAD
- RELGST 1665 - ANTHROPOLOGY OF RELIGION
- RELGST 1710 - PERSPECTIVES ON RELIGION
- RUSS 0590 - THE BOOK WAS BETTER: RUSSIAN LITERATURE ON PAGE AND SCREEN
- RUSS 0103 - INTERMEDIATE RUSSIAN 1
- RUSS 0325 - THE RUSSIAN SHORT STORY
- RUSS 0810 - UTOPIA, SOCIALISM, DISSENT: INTRODUCTION TO MODERN RUSSIAN LITERATURE
- RUSS 0850 - APPROPRIATING THE PAST: THE EARLY HISTORY AND CULTURES OF THE EASTERN SLAVS, 988-1825
- RUSS 0860 - MODERN RUSSIAN CULTURE
- RUSS 0870 - RUSSIAN FILM: EISENSTEIN AND COMPANY
- RUSS 0871 - RUSSIAN FILM STALIN TO PUTIN
- BCMS 0030 - INTERMEDIATE BOSNIAN/CROATIAN/MONTENEGRIN/SERBIAN 3
- SLAV 0660 - SCI-FI: EAST AND WEST
- SLAV 1225 - BEHIND BARS: CROSS CULTURAL REPRESENTATIONS OF PRISON IN THE 20TH CENTURY
- SLAV 1850 - UNDERSTANDING THE BALKANS: INTRODUCTION TO BALKAN CULTURE AND LITERATURE
- SLOVAK 0030 - INTERMEDIATE SLOVAK 3
- SPAN 1413 - SHORT STORY IN SPANISH AMERICA
- SPAN 1414 - THEATRE AND PERFORMANCE IN LATIN AMERICA
- SPAN 1418 - VIOLENT VISIONS: REPRESENTATIONS/AESTHETICS OF VIOLENCE IN CONTEMPORARY LATIN AMERICA
- SPAN 1419 - DRUGS, MONEY AND VIOLENCE: NARCO-CULTURE IN LATIN AMERICAN FILM
- SPAN 1422 - MEXICAN LITERATURE, ARTS, AND CULTURE
- SPAN 1426 - LITERATURE OF THE SOUTHERN CONE COUNTRIES
- SPAN 1427 - TRANSATLANTIC HISPANIC LITERATURE AND CULTURE
- SPAN 1432 - WRITING FEMINISM
- SPAN 1433 - WOMEN’S NARRATIVES IN LATIN AMERICA
- SPAN 1438 - AFRO-HISPANIC CULTURAL PRODUCTION: AFRO HISPANIC WRITERS
- SPAN 1441 - READING COLONIAL LATIN AMERICA
- SPAN 1453 - AVANT GARDE MOVEMENTS IN LATIN AMERICA
- SPAN 1455 - BORDER STUDIES
- SPAN 1456 - LATIN AMERICAN SOCIAL MOVEMENTS
- SPAN 1463 - BORGES SHORT STORIES
- SPAN 1707 - AFRCN PRESEN LAT AMERN LIT/CULT
- UKRAIN 0030 - INTERMEDIATE UKRAINIAN 1
Practitioner Skills
The students should have some efficacy in learning the tools that participants in international affairs need to have, from writing to language to data skills. These can include policy-writing course, a grant writing course, a writing for the public course, a broader public policy process style course, but also linguistic training and familiarity with data and data visualization. This area is the second of two areas within the co-major where language training fills the requirement. Language courses beyond the first year of language sequence (e.g. third and fourth semester courses and higher) are places where students are honing advanced ability in a language as an essential practitioner skill for international work. Language courses that are either at or beyond the “Intermediate High” level on the ACTFL scale may count towards the Practitioner Skills level. Choose at least one of the following courses; this list is a sample of available offerings. |
