INTERNATIONAL STUDIES COURSES

International Studies Requirement (3 cu’s)

International Studies courses provide the social science foundation to enable students to do meaningful comparative work. The following are examples of courses that may be taken to fulfill the Huntsman Program’s International Studies Requirement. Students may be granted credit for other classes not found on this list at the discretion of the Huntsman Advisors.

Department	Course Number	Course Title	Available in Fall 2021 (*)
Africana Studies	AFRC 070	Colonial Latin America (HIST 070, LALS 070)
Africana Studies	AFRC 076	Africa since 1800 (HIST 076)	*
Africana Studies	AFRC 190	Introduction to Africa	*
Africana Studies	AFRC 234	Unofficial History of Colonial Caribbean
Africana Studies	AFRC 268	Contemporary Issues in African Society (SOCI 268)
Africana Studies	AFRC 274	Faces of Islam in Africa (HIST 275)	*
Africana Studies	AFRC 372	Africa and the Middle East (HIST 412)
Africana Studies	AFRC 420	Advanced Topics in Africana Studies	*
Anthropology	ANTH 002	Introduction to Cultural Anthropology	*
Anthropology	ANTH 169	Worlds of the Indian Ocean
Anthropology	ANTH 190	Introduction to Africa	*
Anthropology	ANTH 394	NGOs and Humanitarianism
Asian American Studies	ASAM 239	Migrations and the Middle East (NELC 239, SAST 269)
Benjamin Franklin Seminars	HIST 216	Religion and Colonial Rule in Africa	*
Comparative Literature	COML 220	Russia and the West
Comparative Literature	COML 297	Global Feminism
East Asian Languages & Civilizations	EALC 081	Premodern Korea (HIST 120)
East Asian Languages & Civilizations	EALC 340	International Relations in Ancient East Asia
Economics	ECON 032	Political Economy
Economics	ECON 232	Political Economy (PPE 232)
Environmental Studies	ENVS 204	Global Climate Change
Gender, Sexuality & Women’s Studies	GSWS 297	Global Feminism
Gender, Sexuality & Women’s Studies	GSWS 411	Political Economy of Gender (PSCI 411)
History	HIST 012	Globalization (ANTH 012, SOCI 012)	*
History	HIST 030	Emergence of Modern Europe	*
History	HIST 070	Colonial Latin America (AFRC 070, LALS 070)
History	HIST 076	Africa since 1800	*
History	HIST 081	History of Middle East since 1800 (NELC 013)	*
History	HIST 086	East/West: Modern World History
History	HIST 120	Premodern Korea (EALC 081)
History	HIST 174	Capitalism, Socialism, and Crisis in the 20th Century Americas	*
History	HIST 179	Rise and Fall of the Spanish Empire
History	HIST 202	Cold War and its Legacies (majors only)
History	HIST 206	History of Trade (majors only)
History	HIST 215	Private Life in China
History	HIST 216	Religion and Colonial Rule in Africa	*
History	HIST 218	CU in India (SAST 217)
History	HIST 220	Russia and the West (COML 220, RUSS 220)
History	HIST 275	Faces of Jihad in African Islam	*
History	HIST 331	American Diplomatic History since 1776	*
History	HIST 390	China and USSR Compared
History	HIST 412	Issues in Chinese History	*
History	HIST 425	World War I	*
History	HIST 430	Third Reich
Latin American and Latino Studies	LALS 213	Latin American Politics (PSCI 213)
Latin American and Latino Studies	LALS 233	Latin American Topics
Latin American and Latino Studies	LALS 388	Mexican Cinema (SPAN 388)	*
Latin American and Latino Studies	LALS 590	Anti-Imperialist Thought
Near Eastern Languages & Civilizations	NELC 031	History of Middle East thru 1800 (HIST 081)	*
Near Eastern Languages & Civilizations	NELC 036	Mideast thru Many Lenses (Freshman Seminar)	*
Near Eastern Languages & Civilizations	NELC 189	Worlds of Indian Ocean (ANTH 169, SAST 169)
Near Eastern Languages & Civilizations	NELC 239	Migration and Middle East (ASAM 239, NELC 539, SAST 269)
Near Eastern Languages & Civilizations	NELC 334	Africa and the Middle East (HIST 371)
Politics, Philosophy, & Economics	PPE 062	Soviet and Post-Soviet Economics (RUSS 189)
Politics, Philosophy, & Economics	PPE 232	Political Economy (ECON 232)
Political Science	PSCI 110	Introduction to Comparative Politics
Political Science	PSCI 116	Comparative Politics of Developing Areas	*
Political Science	PSCI 131	American Foreign Policy
Political Science	PSCI 135	The Politics of Food
Political Science	PSCI 150	Intro to International Relations	*
Political Science	PSCI 151	International Security
Political Science	PSCI 152	International Political Economy	*
Political Science	PSCI 210	Contemporary African Politics
Political Science	PSCI 211	Politics in the Contemporary Middle East
Political Science	PSCI 213	Latin American Politics
Political Science	PSCI 217	Russian Politics
Political Science	PSCI 218	Politics of Post War Western Europe
Political Science	PSCI 219	Chinese Politics	*
Political Science	PSCI 224	Political Economy of Development
Political Science	PSCI 252	War, Strategy and Politics
Political Science	PSCI 253	International Politics of the Middle East	*
Political Science	PSCI 255	East Asian International Relations
Political Science	PSCI 258	Human Rights
Political Science	PSCI 259	Russian Foreign Policy
Political Science	PSCI 267	International Affairs: Russia and Eastern Europe
Political Science	PSCI 298	Selected Topics in Political Science
Political Science	PSCI 314	Transitions to Democracy
Political Science	PSCI 358	International Law	*
Political Science	PSCI 395	Power Sharing	*
Political Science	PSCI 398	Political International Negotiations	*
Political Science	PSCI 411	Political Economy of Gender (GSWS 411)
Political Science	PSCI 413	Latin American Politics
Political Science	PSCI 498	European Union
Religious Studies	RELS 586	History of Islam in Asia	*
Science, Technology, and Society	STSC 145	Comparative Medicine
Science, Technology, and Society	STSC 212	Science, Technology and War (HSOC 212)	*
Sociology	SOCI 135	Law & Society (AFRC 135)	*

** To request approval, students must speak to a Huntsman advisor, as course content changes.

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