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Tracks

Track 1: Economics, Politics, and International Change

Communication
Economics
History
Linguistics
Political Science

Track 2: Culture and Society in International Perspective

Anthropology
Communication
History
Linguistics
Literature
Sociology


Remember that ALL International Studies Minor requirements (including language courses) must be taken for a LETTER GRADE of C- or better.


Track 1: Economics, Politics, and International Change

 

Communication

  •   COSF 123: Communication, Dissent, and Social Movements
  •   COSF 159: Work and Industry in the New Information Economy

  •   COSF 160: Political Economy / Global Consumer Culture

  • li>  COSF 161: Global Economy and National Identity
  •   COSF 167: Emerging Global High-Tech Regions: Labor and National Development

  •   COSF 181: Political Economy of International Communications

  •   COSF 184: The Mass Media and Politics in Africa

  •   COSF 185: Gender, Labor, and Culture in the Global Economy
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    Economics:

    (Note - Many economics classes require part or all of the Econ series and some math)

  •   ECON 101: International Trade

  •   ECON 103: International Monetary Relations

  •   ECON 114: Economics of Immigration

  •   ECON 116: Economic Development

  •   ECON 117: Economic Growth

  •   ECON 125: Economics of Population Growth

  •   ECON 131: Economics of the Environment

  •   ECON 132: Energy Economics

  •   ECON 133: International Environmental Agreements

  •   ECON 145: Economics of Oceanic Resources

  •   ECON 161: Latin America and Economic Development

  •   ECON 162: Economics of Mexico

  •   ECON 163: Japanese Economy

  •   ECON 165: Economics of the Middle East

  • History


  •   HIAF 111: Modern Africa Since 1880

  •   HIAF 120: History of South Africa

  •   HIEA 111: Japan: Twelfth to Mid-Nineteenth Centuries

  •   HIEA 112: Japan: From the Mid-19th Century through U.S. Occupation

  •   HIEA 113: The Fifteen-Year War in Asia and the Pacific

  •   HIEA 116: Japan-U.S. Relations

  •   HIEA 130: History of the Modern Chinese Revolution: 1800-1911

  •   HIEA 131: History of the Modern Chinese Revolution: 1911-1949

  •   HIEA 132: History of the People's Republic of China

  •   HIEA 165/265: Requires approval of ISP Advisor to apply towards minor

  •   HIEA 167/267: Requires approval of ISP Advisor to apply towards minor

  •   HIEU 101: Greece in the Classical Age

  •   HIEU 102: The Roman Republic

  •   HIEU 104: Byzantine Empire

  •   HIEU 121: Early Modern Italy

  •   HIEU 122: Politics Italian Renaissance Style

  •   HIEU 123: Renaissance Europe

  •   HIEU 126: Age of Expansion: Europe and the World, 1400-1600

  •   HIEU 128: Europe Since 1945

  •   HIEU 131: The French Revolution: 1789-1814

  •   HIEU 132: German Politics and Culture: 1648-1848

  •   HIEU 134: The Formation of the Russian Empire, 800-1855

  •   HIEU 135: European Economy and Society: 1000-1750

  •   HIEU 136: European Society and Social Thought: 1870-1989

  •   HIEU 138: Imperial Spain , 1476-1808

  •   HIEU 139: Origins of Constitutions

  •   HIEU 141: European Diplomatic History, 1870-1945

  •   HIEU 146: Fascism, Communism, and the Crisis of Liberal Democracy: Europe 1919-1945

  •   HIEU 150: Modern British History

  •   HIEU 151: Spain Since 1808

  •   HIEU 153A: Nineteenth-Century France

  •   HIEU 153B: Twentieth-Century France

  •   HIEU 154: Modern German History: From Bismarck to Hitler

  •   HIEU 155: Modern Austria

  •   HIEU 156: The Russian Empire and the Soviet Union , 1855-1991

  •   HIEU 159: Three Centuries of Zionism from 1648 - 1948

  •   HIEU 181: Immigration, Ethnicity, and Identity in Contemporary European Society

  •   HIEU 182: The Muslim Experience in Contemporary Europe

  •   HILA 100: Latin America - Colonial Transformations

  •   HILA 101: Latin America: The Construction of Independence 1810-1898

  •   HILA 103: Revolutions in Modern Latin America

  •   HILA 104: Modern U.S.-Latin American Relations

  •   HILA 107: State and Society in Nineteenth and Twentieth-Century Latin America

  •   HILA 120: History of Argentina

  •   HILA 121: History of Brazil

  •   HILA 122: Cuba: From Colony to Socialist Republic

  •   HILA 131: A History of Mexico

  •   HILA 132: A History of Contemporary Mexico

  •   HILA 161: History of Women In Latin America

  •   HINE 114: History of the Islamic Middle East

  •   HINE 116: The Middle East in the Age of European Empires (1798-1914)

  •   HINE 118: The Middle East in the Twentieth Centuries

  •   HINE 119: Contemporary Middle East Conflicts

  •   HINE 166: Nationalism in the Middle East

  •   HITO 111: Marxian Theory

  •   HITO 117: World History, 1200-1800

  •   HITO 133: War and Society: The Second World War

  •   HITO 134: International Law-War Crimes and Genocide
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    Linguistics

  •   LIGN 105: Law and Language

  •   LIGN 108: Languages of Africa

  •   LIGN 174: Gender and Language in Society

  •   LIGN 177: Multilingualism
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    Political Science

  •   Comparative Politics: POLI 120A through POLI 139A

  •   International Relations: POLI 140A through POLI 159
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    Track 2: Culture and Society in International Perspective

    Anthropology:

  •   ANSC 110: Societies and Cultures of the Caribbean

  •   ANSC 130: Hinduism

  •   ANSC 131: Urban Cultures in Latin America

  •   ANSC 132: Modernity in Brazil

  •   ANSC 133: Peoples and Cultures of the Middle East

  •   ANSC 134: Global Islam

  •   ANSC 135: Indigenous Peoples of Latin America

  •   ANSC 136: Traditional Chinese Society

  •   ANSC 137: Chinese Popular Religion

  •   ANSC 142: Anthropology of Latin America

  •   ANSC 165: Contemporary South Asia

  •   ANAR 140: The Foundation for Social Complexity in the Near East

  •   ANAR 141: Prehistory of the Holy Land

  •   ANAR 142: The Rise and Fall of Ancient Israel

  •   ANAR 144: Pharaohs, Mummies, and Pyramids: Introduction to Egyptology

  •   ANAR 153: The Mysterious Maya

  •   ANAR 154: The Aztecs and Their Ancestors

  •   ANAR 155S: Study Abroad - Ancient Mesoamerica

  •   ANAR 156: The Archeology of South America

  •   ANAR 157: Early Empires of the Andes - The Middle Horizon

  •   ANAR 158: The Inca - Empire of the Andes

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    Communication:

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  •   COSF 100: Introduction to Communication as a Social Force

  •   COSF 124: Black Women Feminism, and the Media
  •   COSF 140A: Comparative Media Systems: Asia

  •   COSF 140B: Comparative Media Systems: Europe

  •   COSF 140C: Comparative Media Systems: Latin America and the Caribbean

  •   COSF 183: The Politics of World Music
  •   COCU 110: Cinema in Latin America

  •   COCU 126: African Cinema

  •   COCU 130: Tourism: Global Industry and Cultural Form

  •   COCU 131: Cinema of the Cuban Revolution
  •   COCU 162: Popular Culture

  •   COCU 179: Colonialism and Culture

  •   COCU 180: Cultures and Markets

  •   COHI 114: Bilingual Communication

  •   COHI 115: Education and Global Citizenship

  •   COHI 121: Literacy, Social Organization and the Individual

  •   COHI 135: Language and Globalization

     

    History

  •   HIAF 122: Traditional African Religions

  •   HIEA 115: Social and Cultural History of Twentieth-Century Japan

  •   HIEA 120: Classical Chinese Philosophy and Culture

  •   HIEA 121: Medieval Chinese Culture and Society

  •   HIEA 122: Late Imperial Chinese Culture and Society

  •   HIEA 123: Food in Chinese History

  •   HIEA 124: Science in China and the West from Ancient Times to the Seventeenth Century

  •   HIEA 125: Women and Gender in East Asia

  •   HIEA 133: Twentieth-Century China : Cultural History

  •   HIEA 135: Thought and Religion in China: Buddhism

  •   HIEA 137: Women and Family in Chinese History

  •   HIEA 165/265: Requires approval of ISP Advisor to apply towards minor

  •   HIEA 167/267: Requires approval of ISP Advisor to apply towards minor

  •   HIEU 110: The Rise of Europe

  •   HIEU 111: Europe in the Middle Ages

  •   HIEU 113: Rule, Conflict, and Dissent in the Middle Ages

  •   HIEU 115: The Pursuit of the Millennium

  •   HIEU 118: Americanization in Europe
  •   HIEU 120: The Renaissance in Italy

  •   HIEU 124: The City in Italy

  •   HIEU 125: Reformation of Europe

  •   HIEU 127: Sport in the Modern World

  •   HIEU 129: Paris , Past and Present

  •   HIEU 130: Europe in the Eighteenth-Century

  •   HIEU 133: Gender in Antiquity and the Early Medieval Mediterranean

  •   HIEU 136A: European Society and Social Thought, 1688-1870

  •   HIEU 136B: European Society and Social Thought, 1870-1989

  •   HIEU 142: European Intellectual History, 1780-1870

  •   HIEU 143: European Intellectual History, 1870-1945

  •   HIEU 147: The History of Women in Europe: Middle Ages to the Early Modern Era

  •   HIEU 148: The History of Women in Europe: The Enlightenment to the Victorian Age

  •   HIEU 149: The History of Women in Europe: 1870 to the Present

  •   HILA 115: The Latin American City , a History

  •   HILA 121: History of Brazil

  •   HINE 100: The Ancient Near East and Israel

  •   HINE 104: The Bible and the Near East : The Primary History

  •   HINE 106: The Bible and the Near East : The Writings

  •   HINE 108: The Middle East Before Islam

  •   HIRE 115: Women in Chinese Religions

  •   HIRE 120: Buddhist Thought and Practice

  •   HISC 100: The Discovery of Deep Time

  •   HISC 101A: Science in the Greek and Roman World

  •   HISC 101B: Medieval Science in the Latin West, ca. 500-1500

  •   HISC 101C: Early Modern Science

  •   HISC 102: Technology in World History

  •   HISC 103: Gender and Science in Historical Perspective

  •   HISC 104: History of Popular Science

  •   HISC 105: History of Environmentalism

  •   HISC 106: The Scientific Revolution

  •   HISC 107: The Emergence of Modern Science

  •   HISC 108: Science and Technology in the Twentieth Century

  •   HISC 110: Science in China and the West from Ancient Times to the Seventeenth Century

  •   HISC 111: Origins of the Atomic Age

  •   HITO 100: Religious Traditions: Ancient Near East Religions

  •   HITO 102: Religious Traditions: East Asian Religious Traditions

  •   HITO 104: The Jews and Judaism in the Ancient and Medieval Worlds

  •   HITO 105: The Jews and Judaism in the Modern World

  •   HITO 126: A History of Childhood
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    Linguistics:

  •   LIGN 141: Language Structures

  •   LIGN 142: Language of Typology

  •   LIGN 143: Structure of Spanish

  •   LIGN 145: Pidgins and Creoles

  •   LIGN 175: Sociolinguistics

  •   LIGN 176: Language of Politics and Advertising
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    Literature:

  •   LTEN 188: Contemporary Caribbean Literature

  •   LTEN 189: Twentieth-Century Postcolonial Literatures

  •   LTWL 140: Novel and History in the Third World

  •   LTWL 141: Islam and Modernity

  •   LTWL 149: The Last Turn of the Century in the West

  •   LTWL 150: Modernity and Culture

  •   LTCS 133: Globalization and Culture

  •   LTCS 140: Subaltern Studies in Context

  •   LTCS 141: Race and Empire

  •   LTCS 145: National Cultures in Colonial and Postcolonial Contexts

  •   And all upper-division 4-unit, non-language courses listed under:

  •   African Literatures (LTAF)

  •   Literatures in Chinese (LTCH)

  •   East Asian Literatures (LTEA)

  •   European and Eurasian Literature (LTEU) with exception of LTEU 100, 102, and 105

  •   Literatures in French (LTFR) with exception of LTFR 160

  •   Literatures in German (LTGM)

  •   Literatures in Italian (LTIT) with exception of LTIT 161

  •   Korean Literature (LTKO)

  •   Literatures in Portuguese (LTPR)

  •   Russian Literature (LTRU) with the exception of LTRU 104 A, B, C.

  •   Literatures in Spanish (LTSP) with the exception of LTSP 150, 151, 152, 153, 160, 162, and 166

  •   With approval of the ISP advisor, students may take up to two theory or methods courses selected from Literature/Theory (LTTH) courses LTTH 110, LTTH 115, or LTTH 150, and from among the Literature/Cultural Studies (LTCS) course LTCS 100, LTCS 102, or LTCS 120.
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    Sociology:

  •   SOCI 111E: Human Rights - Principles and Problems

  •   SOCI 111F: Human Rights - Practices and Cases
  •   SOCI 133: Immigration in Comparative Perspective
  •   SOCI 134: The Making of Modern Medicine

  •   SOCI 136E: Sociology of Mental Illness: An Historical Approach

  •   SOCI 139: Social Inequality: Class, Race, and Gender

  •   SOCI 148: Political Sociology

  •   SOCI 156: Sociology of Religion

  •   SOCI 157: Religion in Contemporary Society
  •   SOCI 158: Islam in the Modern World
  •   SOCI 162R: Religion and Popular Culture in East Asia
  •   SOCI 163: Migration and the Law
  •   SOCI 169: Citizenship, Community, and Culture
  •   SOCI 175: Nationality and Citizenship
  •   SOCI 177: International Terrorism
  •   SOCI 178: The Holocaust
  •   SOCI 179: Social Change
  •   SOCI 180: Social Movements and Social Protests

  •   SOCI 181: Modern Western Society

  •   SOCI 182: Ethnicity and Indigenous Peoples of Latin America
  •   SOCI 183: Minorities and Nations
  •   SOCI 185: Globalization and Social Development  
  •   SOCI 187: African Societies Through Films
  •   SOCI 188D: Latin America : Society and Politics
  •   SOCI 188E: Community and Social Change in Africa
  •   SOCI 188F: Modern Jewish Societies and Israeli Society
  •   SOCI 188G: Chinese Society
  •   SOCI 188J: Change in Modern South Africa

  •   SOCI 189: Special Topics in Comparative - Historical Sociology
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