Undergraduate Program
The International Studies 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 major consists of approximately 70 credit hours plus language study within a general four-year B.A. course of study. Majors specialize in an area of study along the following tracks.
Approved tracks:
Canada; China; Japan; East Asia; South Asia; Southeast Asia; Latin America; Middle East; Western Europe; Russia/Eastern Europe; Development; International Political Economy; Environmental Studies; Ethnicity and Nationalities; Jewish Studies; Foreign Policy, Diplomacy, Peace and Security; International Communication; International Human Rights, Law, State and Society.
Degree Requirements:
- Foreign language competency through second-year college level
- ECON 200 and 201 (Micro- and macroeconomics)
- SIS 200 States and Capitalism: The Origins of the Modern Global System
- SIS 201 Introduction to International Political Economy
- SIS 202 Cultural Interactions in an Interdependent World
- SIS 401 an advanced course in International Political Economy
- SIS 495 Task Force, provides a small group setting for in-depth investigation of international policy issues
- SIS 498 a seminar which includes reading and writing about major texts
- Three or four upper-division courses in an approved track
- Three approved, upper-level interdisciplinary "CORE" courses in International Studies
- A qualifying paper of approximately 25 pages
For detailed information about the Undergraduate Program, please visit the
Advising Office website
http://jsis.washington.edu/advise/catalog/Is-ba.html