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The undergraduate InternationalStudies Program (ISP) is designed to familiarize students withthe basic characteristics of the international system and to permitthem to explore particular aspects of that system in greater depth.ISP not only encompasses the interactions among national governments,international institutions, and international private actors,but it also includes the effects that those international interactionshave on the economy, populace, and society within nations. ISPtherefore deals with the interactions (or "feedback effects")between the domestic and international environments. Internationalstudies will deal fundamentally with the interdependence so characteristicof the modern world.
Program offerings are dividedinto a required core group and a series of elective groupings.Students are required to complete the core group (InternationalSystem) consisting of three courses. Students must also selectand complete three courses within a second thematic grouping ofcourses (except for the International Economics grouping whichrequires four courses). Three of the courses submitted to fulfillprogram requirements must be completed outside the student'sfield of concentration. Students are also required to completea substantial research paper on some aspect of the internationalsystem.
Steven Burg, Director
(Politics)
Silvia Arrom
(History)
Robert Art
(Politics)
Eugene Black
(History)
Seyom Brown
(Politics)
F. Trenery Dolbear
(Economics)
Robert Hunt
(Anthropology)
Attila Klein
(Biology)
Rachel McCulloch
(Economics)
Wellington Nyangoni
(African and Afro-AmericanStudies)
Peter Petri
(Economics)
George Ross
(Sociology)
Participants in the programwill be expected to meet the following requirements:
A.Satisfactory completion of the International System grouping:POL 15a (Introduction to International Relations), LGLS 125b (InternationalLaw, Organizations, and Conflict Resolution), and eitherPOL 160b (World Politics since 1945), or HIST 137a (Evolutionof the International System, 1815-Present).
B.Satisfactory completion of three courses within a second thematicgrouping of courses, except for the International Economics groupingwhich requires completion of four courses. (Consult the list ofgroupings and courses given below.)
C.Three of the courses submitted to fulfill program requirementsmust be from outside the student's field of concentration.
D.No course in the ISP program may be taken pass/fail.
E.Students must complete a substantial research paper, usually inconnection with one of the elective courses completed as partof the program on a topic approved by the program chair. The papermust be read and approved by one member of the program facultyin addition to the course instructor. (The course instructor remainssolely responsible for grading of the paper with respect to thecourse.) The research paper is to be undertaken only after completionof at least four program courses, usually in the junior or senioryear. A senior honors thesis completed in a department may, ifappropriate, be used to fulfill this requirement.
International System
Evolution of the InternationalSystem, 1815 to the Present
LGLS 125b International Law, Organizations,and Conflict Resolution Introduction to InternationalRelations World Politics since 1945 Africa Economy and Society in Africa AAAS 85a Survey of Southern AfricanHistory Africa in World Politics African and Caribbean PoliticalSystems Tradition and the ContemporaryExperience in Sub-Saharan Africa POL 140a Politics of Africa POL 141a Politics of Southern Africa Asia ECON 27b The Economy of Japan East Asia in the Nineteenthand Twentieth Centuries POL 147a The Government and Politicsof China Contemporary Chinese Politics Politics of Southeast Asia POL 178a International Politics of thePacific Europe HIST 52b Europe, from 1789 to the Present Nineteenth Century Europe:Natioanlism, Imperialism, Socialism (1850-1919) Europe since 1945 Jews in East-Central Europe,1914-Present POL 11b Introduction to ComparativeGovernment: Europe East European Politics POL 130b Politics in Russia amd Ukraine The New Europe: European Economicand Political Integration West European Political Systems Latin America AAAS 167a African and Caribean ComparativePolitical Systems ECON 26a Latin America's Economy Latin American History, 1870to the Present Latin American Politics I Latin American Politics II Topics in Latin American Politics SOC 125b U.S. - Caribbean Relations Middle East AAAS 175a Comparative Politics of NorthAfrica NEJS 143b The World of Shi'i Islam NEJS 144b Nationalism and Islam in theModern Middle East NEJS 145b The Making of the Modern MiddleEast SOC 157a Sociology of the Israeli-PalestinianConfrontation Conflict and Conflict Resolution LGLS 130a Conflict Analysis and Intervention POL 128b The Politics of Revolution POL 161b Causes and Prevention of War POL 176a International Crisis Management,Interaction, and Peacekeeping SOC 157a Sociology of the Israeli-PalestinianConfrontation Development AAAS 126b Political Economy of the ThirdWorld AAAS 158a Theories of Development andUnderdevelopment ANTH 55a Development and the Third World ANTH 163b Economic Anthropology: Productionand Distribution ANTH 164a Topics in Economic Anthropology ECON 175a Introduction to the Economicsof Development PHSC 4a Science and Development POL 151b Nationalism and Development SOC 107a Global apartheid and GlobalSocial Movements SOC 112a Topics on Women and Development SOC 120a Sociology of Underdevelopment SOC 171a Women Leaders and Transformationin Developing Countries Environmental and PopulationIssues AAAS 60a Econonmics of Third World Hunger The Development of Human FoodProduction Human Reproduction, PopulationExplosion, Global Consequences CHSC 3a The Planet as an Organism:Gaia Theory and the Human Prospect POL 165a International Relations andthe Global Environment POL 179a Politics and Hunger SOC 175b Environmental Sociology Ethnicity and Human Rights Comparative Race and EthnicRelations Language, Ethnicity, and Nationalism Crosscultural Inquiry in SocialScience Managing Ethnic Conflict POL 163a Human Rights and InternationalRelations International Economics ECON 2a Introduction to Economics ECON 8b Analysis of Economic Problems Comparative Economic Systems Business in the Global Economy International Economic Policy Introduction to the Economicsof Development International Political Economy Political Economy of the ThirdWorld Evolution of Political Economy Issues in International PoliticalEconomy Low-Income States and the GlobalEconomy Introduction to InternationalPolitical Economy Technology and Society AAAS 117a Communications and Social Changein Developing Nations Science and Technology in theTwentieth Century Industrialization and SocialChange, 1900 to the Present PHSC 4a Science and Development Technology and the Managementof Public Risk nature and Technology Women in Society Women, Gender, and Family Woman's Voice in the MuslimWorld The Politics of the ModernWelfare State: Women, Workers, and Social Citizenship SOC 112a Topics on Women and Development Women Leaders and Transformationin Developing Countries