Students are required to take two core courses and nine electives from the three areas listed below. One of these nine electives must be a Junior Seminar. The Junior Seminar introduces students to research methods and requires them to write an evidence-based paper of at least 10 pages in length. The list of courses approved for the Junior Seminar and all three areas will be available on the program’s website before registration each semester. Students must take two courses in the same language up to the Intermediate II level.
- Students may not double-dip. If a course applies to two areas, the student must choose which area the course will apply.
- Students may take only one elective course at the 1000 level.
Three Areas: Three Courses from Each Area are Required
- International Politics and Economics
- Global Justice and Development
- Global Cultures
Electives that will be offered to fulfill each area requirement. Courses in red are approved for the Junior Research Seminar.
International Politics and Economics (3 courses)
- ASN 2040/GINS 2040: Armed Conflicts
- ECO 3016 INTL Trade: Theory and Policy
- FIN 3017: Global Finance
- GINS 2021: Ballots, Bullets & Barricades
- HIS 1036: World History II
- HIS 3002: The Great War and the Making of the Modern World
- HIS 3094: International Relations Since 1945
- HIS 3127: Economic History of Latin America
- MGT 2007: International Management
- POS 1037: International Politics I
- POS 1038: International Politics II
- POS 2011: Comparative Politics
- POS 2015: Comparative Politics II
- POS 2068: Sports and International Relations
- POS 3033: Politics in the Middle East
- POS 3100: Crime and International Relations
- POS 3118: Emerging Global Powers
Global Justice and Development (3 courses)
- AFS 2085/HIS 2085: History of Contemporary Africa
- ASN 2040/GINS 2040: Armed Conflict
- BIO 2007: Current Environmental Problems
- BIO 2016: Global Environmentalism
- ECO 3018: Economics of Developing Countries
- GINS 2021: Ballots, Bullets & Barricades
- GINS 2050: Environmental Geography
- GINS 3100: Poverty and Development in the Global South
- HIS 2083: Latin America: Social Change and Revolution
- HIS 3035: The Third Reich
- HIS 3090: Migration and Borders
- HIS 3135: Slavery Through History
- HOLC 3036: Holocaust in Film
- HOLC 3037: Holocaust and Culture
- HOLC 3042: Literature and the Holocaust
- PHL 3011: Genocide
- POS 3117: War and Human Rights
- POS 4050: Model UN
- SOC 2001: Gender in Global Perspective
- SOC 2021: Race and Ethnicity
- SOC 3000: Latin American Social Movements
- SOC 3014: African American Communities
- SOC 3017: Race and Housing Inequality
Global Cultures (3 courses)
- AFS 2019: Intro to African Studies
- AFS 2082: Ancient African History
- AFS 2085: History and Culture of Senegambia
- AFS 3041: Harlem Renaissance
- AMS 2041: Americans Abroad
- ANTH 1050: Cultural Anthropology
- ARH 1042: Art of Africa, Oceania and America
- ARH 2011: Greek Art
- ARH 2070: Islamic Art
- ARH 3079: Michelangelo
- ARH 3082: Women Artists of the Ital. Renaissance and Baroque
- CSCH 3007: Atlantic Revolutions
- CSCH 3060: Music and Politics
- ENF 1001: Intro to Film Studies
- ENF 2079: Women's Film
- ENF 2088: History of Cinema I: Up to WWII
- ENF 2089 His of Cinema II: WWII-Present
- ENF 3075: Film Theory
- ENF 3173: Queer Film and Media Studies
- ENF 4010: Major Film Directors
- ENF 4030: Global and Transnational Film and Media
- ENG 1012: Intro to Medieval Art and Renaissance Literature
- ENG 1014: Intro to Victorian Modern British Literature
- ENG 1017: Post-Colonial Literature
- ENG 2072: Global Prison Literature
- ENG 2075: Modern Asian Literature
- ENG 2098: Renaissance Poetry
- ENG 3083: Literary Theory & Criticism
- FRN 2011: Discussion Film (class conducted in French)
- FRN 2055: French Cinema (class conducted in English)
- FRN 3024: Intro Analysis French Texts (class conducted in French)
- FRN 3031: French and Francophone Culture (class conducted in French)
- FRN 3122: City of Light: Paris in Literature and Film (class conducted in English)
- HIS 1018: History of the Modern Middle East and North Africa
- HIS 1025: Indigenous and Colonial Latin America
- HIS 2036: History of New York City
- HIS 3103: Topics in Modern Irish History
- HOLC 3036: Holocaust in Film
- HOLC 3037: Holocaust and Culture
- ITL 3019: Literature, Film & Society (class conducted in Italian)
- MUH 2011: Survey of Western Music I
- SOC 2001: Gender in Global Perspective
- SOC 2028: Sociology of New York City
- SOC 3007: Globalization and Social Change
- SOC 3008: World Cities
- SOC 3020: Sociology of Food
- SOC 3029: Environmental Social Movements
- SOC 3186: Indigenous Peoples
- SPN 2023: Speaking About Movies: Advanced Conversation (class conducted in Spanish)
- SPN 2032: Analysis of Spanish-American Literature (class conducted in Spanish)
- SPN 3026: Modern Spanish Novel (class conducted in Spanish)
- SPN 3027: Spanish Women Writers (class conducted in Spanish)
- SPN 3028: Latin American Black Literature (class conducted in Spanish)
- SPN 3046: Literature and Film in Cuba (class conducted in Spanish)
- WREL 1014: Religions of the World
- WREL 2034: Religions of India
- WREL 3008: Christianity
- WREL 3027: Islam