International Studies Program
The International Studies Program offers an undergraduate major, undergraduate minor, and a masters degree offered jointly with six professional schools. The IS Program combines social sciences and humanities to examine international problems and change. Using a diverse, multidisciplinary approach, the program encourages students to look at our increasingly interdependent world in order to learn how to study it and understand its politics, societies, economies, and cultures.
The general program gives students a comprehensive and interdisciplinary perspective on world problems, plus an ability to analyze subtle interactions of politics, economics, and culture that take place within the global system. Students look, for instance, at how anthropologists, sociologists, psychologists, and humanists address the subject of culture in international affairs; at how political scientists study comparative politics and international relations; and how economists and geographers deal with the fields of development, resource management, and international economics. History and language study are also important parts of the program. Students choose an emphasis on a world region or in the areas of ethnicity and nationality, development issues, international political economy, or foreign policy and diplomacy.
For more information about the Undergraduate Program, follow the links on the menu to the left and also please visit the Student Services office at the Jackson School: http://jsis.washington.edu/advise/catalog/Is-ba.html.
For more information about the Graduate Program follow the links on the menu to the left and also please visit the Student Services office at the Jackson School: http://jsis.washington.edu/advise/catalog/Is-ma.html.
International Studies Program courses 2007-2008
(Tentative as of 11/5/2007)
Autumn 2007
Required:
SIS 200 Yang States and Capitalism
SIS 401 Ingebritsen International Political Economy
SIS 498 Friedman Readings in Violence, Memory, Identity
SIS 498 Poznanski Readings in Family and Morality
Core:
SIS 325 Friedman Immigration
SIS 335 staff Geography of Developing World (w/GEOG 335)
SIS 377 Cirtautas Turkic Peoples of Central Asia (w/NEAR E 375)
SIS 425 Graham/Jones International Law and Arms Control (w/LSJ 490c)
SIS 426 Prakash World Politics (w/POL S 426)
SIS 456 Kasaba State-Society Relations in the 3rd World
SIS 470 Godoy Human Rights in Latin America (w/LSJ 410)
SIS 490 Lorenz International Law and the Use of Force
SIS 490 Jones Terrorism
Other:
SIS 123 Sparke Intro to Globalization (w/GEOG 123)
Graduate:
SIS 500 Kasaba Origins of the Modern Global System
SIS 590 Graham/Jones International Law and Arms Control (w/SIS 425)
Winter 2008
Required:
SIS 201 Migdal The Making of the 21st Century
SIS 495A Chirot America's foreign policy dilemma: how to deal with tyrannical and genocidal regimes
SIS 495B Friedman U.S. Refugee and Resettlement Policy Today
SIS 495C Montgomery Climate Change: Policy and Politics
SIS 495D Bachman The U.S., China, and Global Oil
SIS 495E Yang US Policy toward South Asian States: India, Pakistan, Bangladesh
SIS 495F Godoy Responsible Apparel Purchasing
SIS 495G Hamilton Supplier and Consumer Markets in China: An Analysis of the
Present and Projections for the Future
SIS 498A Kasaba US Foreign Policy in Iraq
Core:
SIS 301 Soverel War (w/soc 301)
SIS 332 Poznanski Political Economy of International Trade & Finance
SIS 345 Ramamurthy Women and International Economic Development (w/women,anth)
SIS 350 Ingebritsen Environmental Norms in International Politics
POL S 367 Barzilai Comparative Law and Courts
SIS 375 Young, S Geopolitics (w/geog)
SIS 419 Howard Comparative Media Systems (w/com, pol s 420)
SIS 436 Hattar Ethnic Poligics (w/Pol S 436)
SIS 449 Sorensen Social Transformation of Modern East Asia (w/ANTH 449)
SIS 452 Pekkanen S Law/Politics of International Trade
SIS 455 Hamilton Industry and the State
SIS 490c Huber Congress and Russian-American Relations
SIS 490e Pauwels Indian Popular Media and Religion
SIS 490i Soverel Terrorism/Counter-Terrorism (w/SIS 590)
SIS 490j Lorenz Water and Security in the Middle East
SIS 490n Barzilai The Place of Law in Multiculturalism
Other:
SIS 150 Migdal/Pianko Israel in Global Context
Graduate:
SIS 501 Bachman Comparative International Studies
SIS 511 Curran Methods in International Studies
SIS 522 Chirot Ethnonationalist and Ethnoreligious conflicts: causes and solutions
SIS 534 Anderson International Affairs (w/pb af, pol s)
SIS 552 Pekkanen S Law/Politics of International Trade (w/SIS 452)
SIS 580 Migdal Teaching International Studies
SIS 590a Robinson Topics in the Anthro of Political Violence (w/ANTH)
SIS 590b Gugerty African Development Challenges (w/pb af)
SIS 590e Rivin Health & Human Rights (w/HSERV 590, LAWH 540, BPAF 537)
SIS 590f Soverel Terrorism/Counter-Terrorism (w/SIS 490)
SIS 590h Sears Indonesian Written and Oral Traditions (w/hstas)
SIS 590i Lorenz Water and Security in the Middle East (w/SIS 490j)
Spring 2008
Required:
SIS 201 Radnitz The Making of the 21st Century
SIS 202 Robinson Cultural Interactions
SIS 498 Migdal Creating the Public in Democracies
SIS 498 Novetszke History and Religion: Reading ‘Religion’ in the Western Philosophy of History
SIS 498 Warren Teaching Racial Literacy
SIS 498 Sorensen Globalization and Culture
Core:
SIS 216 Chaloupka Science and Society (w/phys 216)
SIS 330 Latsch Political Economy of Development
SIS 348 Warren Alternative Routes to Modernity (w/hstas 348)
SIS 405 Wellman Political Economy of Religious Institutions
SIS 423 Johnson Practice of U.S. Foreign Policy
SIS 438 Friedman Forced Migrations
SIS 476 Poznanski Comparative Political Economy
SIS 490 Lang Global Civil Society and the Public Sphere
SIS 490 Khagram Cultural Encounters
SIS 490 Smith International Trade and Security (w/SIS 590)
Graduate:
SIS 502 Jones Globalization/IR
SIS 512 Curran IS Methods, part 2
SIS 542 Migdal Seminar: State and Society
SIS 575 Sparke Advanced Political Geography (w/GEOG 575)
SIS 590 Lowe Changing Field of SE Asian Studies
SIS 590 Smith International Trade and Security (w/SIS 490)
| Center for Global Studies | |
| International Studies Program | |
| University of Washington | |
| Box 353650 | |
| Seattle, WA 98195 | |
| (206) 685-2707 | |
| (206) 685-0668 fax | |
| ► | cgsuw@u.washington.edu |
| Sara Curran, Director | |
| (206) 543-6479 | |
| ► | scurran@u.washington.edu |
| Tamara Leonard, Associate Director | |
| (206) 685-2354 | |
| ► | tleonard@u.washington.edu |
| Jane Meyerding, Program Coordinator | |
| ► | mjane@u.washington.edu |