Overview of the Concentration
The international relations concentration offers students the opportunity to combine insights from political and other social sciences with language and humanistic studies in order to examine pressing questions related to war, peace, trade, security, justice and power. This concentration complements majors in the social sciences, area studies, and world languages in particular, but it is appropriate to all students committed to engaging with issues arising from the globalized nature of the modern world.
Courses by contemporary world region or country:
Students must take two courses focusing on the same region and the courses do not need to be from the same department. No more than one of the two courses can be from the political science department. Other courses may be approved in consultation with the director of international relations.
Course List
| Code |
Title |
Credits |
| Major Chicano/a Authors | |
| Modern Latin America | |
| Contemporary Latin American Issues | |
| Forging a Latin American Culture | |
| Family and Gender Roles in Spain: 1900 to Present | |
| Cultures of Spain | |
| Cultures of Latin America | |
| Voices of the Spanish-Speaking World | |
| Twentieth-Century British and Irish Literature | |
| Contemporary France | |
| Period Studies | |
| Topics in Francophone Studies | |
| Germanic Fairy Tales (Taught in English) | |
| German Cinema (Taught in English) | |
| History and Memory | |
| German-speaking Societies in Global Context | |
| Turning Points in German History | |
| German Media History and Media Literacy | |
| Green Germany | |
| The Making of Modern Russia | |
| Ancient Greek History | |
| Topics in History (when the topic is approved) | |
| Research Seminar: Modern European History | |
| The Sámi: Traditions in Transition (Taught in English) | |
| Religion and Empire in Greece and Turkey (study abroad) | |
| 20th-Century Russian Literature (Taught in English) | |
| Topics in Contemporary Russian Society | |
| Water in Morocco: Precious, Precarious, and Problematic (study abroad) | |
| French Language and Moroccan Culture in Fez (study abroad) | |
| Topical Seminar | |
| Introduction to African History | |
| Human Geography | |
| Topics in Modern Middle Eastern Studies | |
| Christian and Islamic Ethics: Conflicts and Cross-Pollination | |
| Judaism | |
| Bible in Context:Hist/Geography/Culture in Israel & Palestine (abroad) | |
| A Sociology of the Arab World | |
| African Literature | |
| The Arts of China | |
| The Arts of Japan | |
| Asian Conversations: Engaging Asia with Voice and Representation | |
| Environmental Sustainability in Japan (study abroad) | |
| Contemporary China Through Film (Taught in English) | |
| What is a Hero? | |
| Third-Year Chinese II | |
| Special Topics in Chinese | |
| Chinese Language and Society through the Media | |
| South Asian Literature | |
| China: Past and Present | |
| Revolutionary China | |
| East Asia Seminar | |
| Advanced Japanese I | |
| Advanced Japanese II | |
| Special Topics in Japanese | |
| Javanese Gamelan | |
| Zen and the Art of Judo | |
*Note: Some courses may be relevant to more than one world region or country. Contact the program director with questions about how these courses might count toward the international relations concentration.
