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International Requirement

Courses Encouraged to Apply for the IR Designation

Potential IR Courses

*This webpage contains numerous courses that the Office of International Programs has identified as having the potential of becoming an International Requirement (IR) course. This list is not intended to be comprehensive or conclusive. Courses appearing on this list have NOT been approved by the Intenational Requirement Committee. In order to be considered for the IR designation, all courses must complete and submit the IR application to be endorsed by the International Requirement Committee.

Courses encouraged to apply for IR designation
*These course have NOT been approved and must apply for IR designation
*These course have NOT been approved and must apply for IR designation
ANTHR 3111 The First Nations of Eastem North America
ANTHR 3212 The First Nations of Western North America
ANTHR 3121 Cultures of Africa--APPROVED
ANTHR 3131 Peoples and Cultures of the Middle East
ANTHR 3132 Traditional Jewish Community
ANTHR 3133 Anthropology of Judaism
ANTHR 3141 Himalayan Kingdoms
ANTHR 3142 Tibetan Civilization
ANTHR 3151 Peoples of the Pacitic
ANTHR 3321 The Classic Maya
ANTHR 3322 Mesoamerimn Archeology
ANTHR 3961 Peoples and Cultures of the Andes
ANTHR 4181 Family, Power, and Society
ANTHR 4182 Economy and Society
ANTHR 4185 Culture Change
ANTHR 4186 Human Ecology
ANTHR 4192 Culture, Health, and Healing: Health and Society in Latin America
 
*These course have NOT been approved and must apply for IR designation
ARCH 3210 Survey of World Architecture I
ARCH 3211 Survey of World Architecture II
ARCH 4200 Japanese Architecture
 
*These course have NOT been approved and must apply for IR designation
 
*These course have NOT been approved and must apply for IR designation
ART H 3000 Arts of Japan
ART H 3020 Arts of China
ART H 3030 Buddhist Art
ART H 3180 East Mediterranea; Cultures
ART H 3410 Survey of Early 20 Century Art and Architecture
ART H 3420 Survey of Late 2om Century Art and Architecture
ART H 4190 Islamic Art and Architecture
 
*These course have NOT been approved and must apply for IR designation
BIOL 3450 Rain Forest Ewlogy and Conservation
BIOL 3460 Global Environmental Issues--APPROVED
 
*These course have NOT been approved and must apply for IR designation
CHFEN 3010 Technology and Public Policy
CHFEN 5303 Environmental Aspects of Fossil Fuels
 
*These course have NOT been approved and must apply for IR designation
CVEEN 3610 lntroduction to Environmental Engineering
CVEEN 5555 Environmental Engineering
CVEEN 5630 Ecological Systems and Engineering
 
*These course have NOT been approved and must apply for IR designation
COMM 3190 Intercultural Communication
COMM 5150 Dialogue and Cultural Studies
COMM 5450 Communication and Culture
 
*These course have NOT been approved and must apply for IR designation
ECON 3250 lntro to Environment and Natural Resources Economics
ECON 3370 Markets and Governments: The Economics of Cooperation
ECON 3500 lntro to lntemational Economics--APPROVED
ECON 3540 Current Economic Problems
ECON 5060 History of Economic Doctrines
ECON 5080 Marxian Economics
ECON 5170 Feminist Economics
ECON 5400 Middle East Economic History
ECON 5410 Survey of European Economic History
ECON 5430 Asian Economic History and Development--APPROVED
ECON 5460 Latin America Economic History and Development
ECON 5510 lntemational Monetary Relations
ECON 5530 Principles of Economic Development
ECON 5550 lntemational Trade and Commercial Policy
ECON 5560 Gender and Economic Development in the Third World
 
*These course have NOT been approved and must apply for IR designation
ED PS 3010 lntro to Multicultural Issues
 
*These course have NOT been approved and must apply for IR designation
ENGL 2040 Contemporary Literature
ENGL 2060 Global Literature and Culture
ENGL 3703 lntroduction to Literary History
ENGL 3780 Global Transnational Literature--APPROVED
ENGL 5930 Theories of Race, Ethnicity, Nation
ENGL 5950 Theories of Cultures
 
*These course have NOT been approved and must apply for IR designation
ETHNC 3400 Intellectual Communication
ETHNC 4150 lntroduction to Multicultural Education
ETHNC 5450 Communication and Culture
ETHNC 5540 Media and Diversity
ETHNC 5560 Social Psychology of Human Diversity
ETHNC 5610 Gender. Race, Class, and the Physical Environment
 
*These course have NOT been approved and must apply for IR designation
FCS 3240 Ecology of Family Belief Systems
FCS 3470 International Consumer Policy--APPROVED
FCS 5440 Consumers. Markets, and Governments
FCS 5600 Physical Environment and Human Behavior
FCS 5610 Gender, Race, Class, and the Physical Environment
 
*These course have NOT been approved and must apply for IR designation
FINAN 4550 lntemational Finance--APPROVED
 
*These course have NOT been approved and must apply for IR designation
 
*These course have NOT been approved and must apply for IR designation
GEOGR 3270 Biogeography: Global Patterns of Life
GEOGR 3320 Terrorism and Security--APPROVED
GEOGR 3350 Resource Conservation and Environmental Management
GEOGR 3400 Population Geography
GEOGR 3440 Economic Geography
GEOGR 3460 Military Geography
GEOGR 3480 Urban Geography of the Developed World
GEOGR 3481 Urban Geography of the Third World
GEOGR 3630 Geography of Westem Europe
GEOGR 3640 Geography of East Asia & Southern Asia
GEOGR 3650 Geography of the Middle East--APPROVED
GEOGR 3670 Contemporary Geographic Problems in Latin America--APPROVED
GEOGR 5480 Advanced Metropolitan Geography
GEOGR 5660 Regions of Africa: North, East. West, and South
 
*These course have NOT been approved and must apply for IR designation
HlST 3160 Soviet Union
HlST 3190 Modem Germany
HlST 3210 Age of Total War
HlST 3220 Post-war Europe: 1945-1991
HIST 3300 History of Mexico
HlST 3390 Ancient Near East
HlST 3400 The Middle East: Modem
HlST 3410The Middle East: Early 2om Century
HlST 3420 The Middle East Contemporary
HlST 3500 Pre-modem China
HlST 3510 Modem China
HlST 3520 Premodern Japan
HlST 3530 Modem Japan
HlST 3550 India: Culture and Religion
HlST 3560 Modem lndia
HlST4070 European Thought
HlST 4200 Topics in World History
HlST4210 Communism and Nationalism in Eastem Europe
HlST4250 Topics in European Social and Cultural History
HIST 4271 European Exploration and Colonialism 1750-Present --APPROVED
HlST 4290 Colonies and Culture
HlST4300 Topics in Latin America
HlST4310 Gender and Power in Latin America
HIST4430 The Middle East: Nation-States
HlST4490 Major Issues in Middle Eastern History
HlST4500 The Urban Social History of the Arab Middle East
HlST 4510 Asian Social History
HlST 4520 American-East Asian Relation
HlST4530 Women in East Asia
HlST 4640 America in Global Perspective
HlST 4760 U.S. Foreign Relations: Twentieth Century
HlST 4770 Warfare in the Modem World
HIST 4850 Indian Diaspora --APPROVED
 
*These course have NOT been approved and must apply for IR designation
ARABIC
ARAB 3200 Introduction to Arabic Literature in Translation
ARAB 4080 lslamic Law
ARAB 4090 Political Thought in Islam
ARAB 4160 Selected Authors and Genres in Arabic Literature
ARAB 4170 The Figure of Mohammed in lslamic Tradition
ARAB 4180 Selected Authors and Genres in the lslamic Intellectual and Religious Tradition
ARAB 4207 Women's Voice: Egypt and Iran
ARAB 4300 Introduction to the Qut'an and Qut'anic Studies
ARAB 4500 lslamic Theology and Philosophy
ARAB 4520 lslamic Mysticism
ARAB 4580 Major Trends in Modem lslam
ARAB 4700 History of Sciences in the lslamic World
CHINESE
CHlN 4550 Patterns of Traditional Chinese Culture
CHlN 4560 Problems of Modernizing China
CHlN 4610 Survey of Chinese Literature
COMPARATIVE LITERATURE
C LIT 3630 Literature of the Middle East
C LIT 3650 African Literature
C LIT 3660 Asian Literature
C LIT 3670 Comparative World Literature and Civilization
FRENCH
FRNCH 4550 French Civilization
FRNCH 4560 Contemporary French Culture
FRNCH 4640 French Literature in the Twentieth Century
GERMAN
GERM 3040 Topics in Literature and Culture
GERM 4600 Literature and History of Ideas
GERM 4610 Survey of German Literature
GERM 4620 Survey of German Literature
GERM 4630 Survey of German Literature
HEBREW
HEBR 4300 Contemporary Culture of the Jewish1 Israeli World
HEBR 4310 Jewish and Israeli Film
HEBR 4400 Topics in Literature and Culture
ITALIAN
ITAL 4550 Topics in Italian Culture
ITAL 4610 Survey of Italian Literature
ITAL 4620 Survey of Italian Literature
JAPANESE
JAPAN 4550 Japanese Civilization
JAPAN 4610 Survey of Japanese Literature
JAPAN 4620 Survey of Japanese Literature
JAPAN 4630 Survey of Japanese: Women's Literature
JAPAN 4660 Contemporary Japanese Literature
KOREAN
KOREA 3100 Korean Culture Through Literature
PERSIAN
PERS 3200 lntro to Persian Literature
PERS 4160 Selected Authors and Genres in Persian Lit
PERS 4207 Women's Voices: Egypt and Iran
PERS 4280 Trends in Modern Persian Literature
PERS 4610 Survey of Persian Literature
PERS 4620 Survey of Persian Literature
RUSSIAN
RUSS 4550 Russian Culture
RUSS 4590 Contemporary Russian Issues
RUSS 4710 Survey of Russian Literature
RUSS 4720 Survey of Russian Literature
SPANISH
SPAN 3580 Contemporary Issues
SPAN 4550 Spanish Civilization and Culture
SPAN 4560 Culture and Customs of Spanish America
SPAN 4600 U.S. Latino Literature
SPAN 4620 Introduction to Spanish Literature
SPAN 4630 Survey of Spanish American Culture
SPAN 4720 Hispanic Narrative
SPAN 4770 Hispanic Film and Culture
SPAN 4790 Masterpieces of Mexican Literature
TURKISH
TURK 3200 lntroduction to Turkish Literature
TURK 4200 Turkish Folklore
TURK4610 Survey of Turkish Literature
TURK 4620 Survey of Turkish Literature
 
*These course have NOT been approved and must apply for IR designation
LlNG 3460 Language in Society
LlNG 3470 Language and Culture--APPROVED
LlNG 3600 Intercultural Communication
LlNG 5205 Language and Gender
LlNG 5230 Linguistic Structure of German
LlNG 5240 Linguistic Stmcture of Spanish
LlNG 5250 Linguistic Structure of French
LlNG 5270 Linguistic Structure of Arabic
LlNG 5280 Structure of Chinese
 
*These course have NOT been approved and must apply for IR designation
MGT 3430 lntemational Law
MGT 3800 Business and Society
MGT 4900 International Management--APPROVED
 
*These course have NOT been approved and must apply for IR designation
MKTG 4840 International Marketing--APPROVED
 
*These course have NOT been approved and must apply for IR designation
MID E 3540, 3541, 3542 The Middle East: Modem, Early 20th Century, and Contemporary
MID E 3644 Comparative Politics of the Middle East
MID E 3713 Peoples and Cultures of the Middle East
MID E 3733 Anthropology of Judaism
MID E 3765 Geography of the Middle East--APPROVED
MID E 4108 Islamic Law
MID E 4109 Political Thought in lslam
MID E 4120 Language and Gender
MID E 4121 Women and Gender in Arabic Society
MID E 4143 Arabic Paleography
MID E 4150 Islamic Theology and Philosophy
MID E 4152 Islamic Mysticism
 
*These course have NOT been approved and must apply for IR designation
PHlL 3610 Religions of India
PHlL 3620 Religions of China and Japan
PHlL 3630 Buddhist Thought
PHIL 5710 International Human Rights --APPROVED
 
*These course have NOT been approved and must apply for IR designation
POLS 3001 Political Analysis
POLS 3410 European Politics
POLS 3430 Politics of Revolution in Latin America
POLS 3440 Comparative Politics in the Middle East
POLS 3450 Politics in China
POLS 3460 Government and Politics in Japan
POLS 3470 Russian Post-Soviet Politics
POLS 3480 East European Politics
POLS 3500 Politics of democratization in Latin America
POLS 3510 Politics and Government of the Pacific Rim Nations
POLS 3620 United Nations
POLS 3670 Russian Foreign Policy
POLS 3800 Issues in lnternational Politics
POLS 5080 Islamic Law
POLS 5090 Political Thought in lslam
POLS 5420 The European Union
POLS 5425 Atlantic Rim Politics
POLS 5430 Asian American Politics
POLS 5460 lntemational Relations in Africa
POLS 5470 lntemational Relations of the Middle East
POLS 5480 lntemational Relations of East Asia
POLS 5490 lntemational Relations of Latin America
POLS 5610 lntemational Law
POLS 5630 Foundations of lnternational Organization
POLS 5660 American Foreign Policy --APPROVED
POLS 5680 Chinese Foreign Policy
POLS 5690 Foundations of lntemational Security--APPROVED
POLS 5710 Foundations of the Politics of lntemational Economic Relations--APPROVED
POLS 5720 The Politics of North- South Economic Relations
POLS 5800 Theories of lnternational Relations--APPROVED
 
*These course have NOT been approved and must apply for IR designation
SOC 3382 Gender Systems: An lnternational Perspective
SOC 3435 Sociology of Economic Development
SOC 3436 Global Social Structure and Change
SOC 3445 Environment, Ecology, and Society
SOC 3446 Political Sociology
SOC 3450 Population and Society--APPROVED
 
*These course have NOT been approved and must apply for IR designation
GNDR 3382 Gender Systems: International Perspective
GNDR 5560 Gender and Economic Development in the Third World
GNDR 5760 Gendered Voice in Literature --APROVED