International Studies: General Major
- Required Courses & Advanced Topic Core Courses

(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  322  Human Rights in Transitional Societies (with LSJ 322)
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  336  The Place of Law in Multicultural Conflicts (with LSJ 336) 
SIS  337  Collective Violence and the State (with POL S 337)
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  366 Comparative Law, Societies, & Courts: Global and Local Perspectives (w/LSJ)
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  427  Weapons of Mass Destruction: Development, Deployment, & Detection
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  439  Law and Political Power
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  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 367 Comparative Law & Courts (w/LSJ 367)
POL S 425 War and Deterrence
POL S 427 International Political Economy
RELIG 307 Religion and World Politics (w/POL S 307)
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 11/20/2009