Core Courses

International Politics, Nation-States, Social Movements
Global Economics, Trade, and Development

Global Health and Environment

Transnational Cultures, Identities, Arts

INTS Special Topics Courses

**Course offerings are subject to change. To confirm whether a course is being offered, check the online Directory of Classes. For course descriptions, see the Undergraduate Bulletin.

FYS=first-year seminar; ST=special topics

 

CORE COURSES

INTS/ANTH/GEOG/
POLI/HIST 210

 

Global Issues

INTS 380

 

Cultural Diversity

ENGL 141

 

World Literatures in English

ENST 201

 

Environment and Society

GEOG 112

Environmental Conservation

GEOG 120

 

World Regional Geography

GEOG 121

 

People and Places

GEOG 130

Developing World

HIST 140

 

The World Since 1945

JOMC 446

 

International Communication and Comparative Journalism

PHIL/POLI/
PWAD 272

 

Ethics of Peace, War, and Defense

PLCY 050

 

FYS: Environment and Labor in the Global Economy

POLI 130

 

Introduction to Comparative Politics

POLI 150

 

International Relations and World Politics

SOCI 111

 

Human Societies

SOCI 121

Population Problems

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INTERNATIONAL POLITICS, NATION-STATES, SOCIAL MOVEMENTS

INTS/ANTH 319

 

Global Health

INTS/POLI 433

European Integration in a Global World

INTS/POLI 438

Democracy and International Institutions in an Undivided Europe

INTS/WMST 388

 

International Politics of Sexual and Reproductive Health

INTS 405

Comparative Political Economy of Development

INTS/WMST 410

 

Comparative Queer Politics

AFRI 101

Introduction to Africa

AFRI 370

 

Political Problems in African Studies

AFRI 416

 

Human Rights and Social Justice Movements in Africa

AFRI 540

The 21st Century Scramble for Africa

AMST 277

Nationhood and National Identity

COMM 376

Rhetoric of War & Peace

GEOG 453

 

Political Geography

HIST/ASIA/PWAD 281

The Pacific War

HIST 292H 002

Fascism, Communism, and The Camp

POLI 130

 

Introduction to Comparative Politics

POLI 195

 

ST: Social Movements and Democratization

POLI 231

 

Latin America/U.S. in World Politics

POLI 238

 

Latin American Politics

POLI 239

 

Introduction to European Government

POLI/ENST 254

 

International Environmental Politics

POLI 431

Democratization in Africa

POLI 435

 

Democracy and Development in Latin America

POLI 450

Contemporary Inter-American Relations

POLI 457

International Conflict Processes

PWAD 350

 

National and International Security

RUES 469

Conflict and Intervention in Former Yugoslavia

WMST 293

Gender and Imperialism

WMST 890

Feminism, Sexuality and Human Rights

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GLOBAL ECONOMICS, TRADE, AND DEVELOPMENT

INTS 405

Comparative Political Economy of Development

AFRI 266

 

Contemporary Africa

ANTH 299 053

What Now? What Next? Conversations on the State of the World and Some Possible Futures

ECON 454

Economics of Population

ECON 460

 

International Economics

ECON 465

 

Economic Development

ECON 560

Advanced International Economics

GEOG 428

Urban Geography

GEOG 453

Political Geography

GEOG 458

Urban Latin America: Politics, Economics and Society

POLI 435

 

Democracy and Development in Latin America

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GLOBAL HEALTH AND ENVIRONMENT

NOTE: Global Health and Environment theme courses may count toward the Global Economics theme for students who declared the International Studies major prior to Fall 2008.

INTS/ANTH 319

 

Global Health

 

 

INTS/WMST 388

 

International Politics of Sexual and Reproductive Health

 

 

AFRI 266 001

Contemporary Africa:  Issues in Health, Population, and Environment

ANTH 147

Comparative Healing Systems

ANTH 151

 

Anthropological Perspectives on Food and Culture

 

 

ANTH 312

From the Equator to the Poles: Case Studies in Global Environmental Change

ANTH 318

 

Human Growth and Development

 

 

ANTH 470

Medicine and Anthropology

BIOL 262

 

Global Ecology

 

 

ENST/POLI 254

 

International Environmental Politics

 

 

ENST 261

Conservation of Biodiversity in Theory and Practice

ENST 490 001

Contemporary Africa:  Issues in Health, Population, and Environment

GEOG 445

Medical Geography

PUBH 510

 

Interdisciplinary Perspectives in Global Health

 

 

SOCI 469

 

Medicine and Society

 

 

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TRANSNATIONAL CULTURES, IDENTITIES, ARTS

AFAM 293

African Diaspora in the Americas

AFRI/WMST 261

African Women: Changing Ideals and Realities

ANTH 147

Comparative Healing Systems

ANTH 435

Consciousness and Symbols

ANTH 499 076

Culture and Consumption

ARAB 150

Introduction to Arabic Culture

ART 158

Introduction to East Asian Art

INTS/ENGL 364

 

Introduction to Latina/o Studies

INTS 390 001

 

ST: Whiteness

INTS 490 001

Diversity and Conformity in Muslim Societies

INLS 490 138

 

ST: International Children's Literature

JOMC 446

 

International Communication and Comparative Journalism

RELI 121

Introduction to Religion and Culture

RELI 328

Topics in Comparative Religion

RELI 428

Religion and Anthropology

SPAN 344

 

Contemporary Latin America: Mexico, Central America, and the Andean Region

SPAN 345

 

Contemporary Latin America: Caribbean and the Southern Cone

WMST 124

Sex and Gender in Society

WMST 290

Women, Empire, and the Law in Africa and the Middle East

WMST 290

Women & Islam in Africa

WMST 297

 

Women's Spirituality Across Cultures

WMST 410

Comparative Queer Politics

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INTS SPECIAL TOPICS COURSES

INTS 390 section 001: Whiteness

Professor Mark Driscoll

Counts toward the Transnational Cultures theme

This course will look at whiteness as it has been constructed relationally in philosophy, media and political culture. "White studies" has emerged since the late 1990s as an interdisciplinary arena of academic inquiry centered on the cultural, historical and sociological aspects of people phenotypically understood as white, and the social construction of whiteness as an ideology tied to social status. This course will begin with modern racial hierarchies established in the philosophies of Kant and Hegel and move on to see how these were expressed in the emergence of both "scientific racism" and in British imperialism in Asia and Africa. The second area of the course will focus on the ways in which the United States both adopted and transformed elements of British racial hierarchy after WW II as it became the global hegemonic force. Finally, the last part of the class will look at the ways in which whiteness re-emerges in the "new scientific racism" of genomics and human engineering. Texts will range from European philosophy to the recent television series Lost.

INTS 390 section 002: Critical Perspectives on Development in China

Professor Michael Tsin

Counts as an Asia Area Course

 

Where is China heading in the twenty-first century?  Three decades from its reintegration into the global capitalist economic order, it remains unclear, from the perspectives of many Americans, whether China represents a long-term partner or foe for the United States.  While the Western media is fond of touting China turning “capitalist,” the Chinese leadership insists that it is constructing a Chinese-style socialist future for the country.  Is that rhetoric or vision?  This course will explore the various political, economic, and social challenges facing China today, ranging from the legitimacy of its Communist government and the impacts of its robust consumer economy to its environmental problems and issues involving its ethnic minorities.  It will try to arrive at some preliminary assessment of the ramifications of “China’s Rise,” as the Chinese media likes to call it, on both its own people and the world at large.

INTS 490 section 001: Diversity and Conformity in Muslim Societies

Professors Banu Gokariksel and Sarah Shields

Counts toward the Transnational Cultures theme

The fall semester of 2009 will focus on two themes, “Nationalists and Salafis,” which explores the kinds of orthodoxies that have emerged during the course of anti-imperialism and decolonization in Asia, Africa and the Middle East.  And the second, “Hermaphrodites, Minorities, and Constitutions,” which will interrogate the ways that governments and popular movements have marginalized or incorporated people who are on the gender/ethnic/religious edges, and how the latter have mobilized against marginalization.

 

 

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