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International Relations (IRE)

Advisor: Robert Givens

This interdepartmental major has been designed to prepare students either for further study in the relations between nations or for future employment in government or business. The curriculum consists of a four-year program in history, politics, and at least one modern foreign language.

Major: A minimum of 11 course credits, distributed as follows: [Because of the need to schedule a number of courses in different departments, majors must elect as their principal advisor one of the members of the International Relations Committee.]

  1. (four courses) HIS 104 (Modern Europe and its Critics), 210 (Warfare and Society in Modern Times), 315 (Diplomacy of War and Revolution), and 318 (Growth of Industrial Society);

  2. (one course) ECB 101 (Macroeconomics) or equivalent;

  3. (four courses) POL 242 (International Politics), 345 (Political Economy of Brazil) or 346 (Political Economy of Developing Countries), 348 (U.S. Foreign Policy), and 349 (International Political Economy);

  4. One of the following: ECB 213 (Economic Development), 223 (International Economics), 263 (Multinational Corporations in Central America); FRE 303 (French Culture); GER 281 (Contemporary Central Europe); HIS 323 (Russia from 1941); REL 202 (Religions of the World); RUS 281 (Russian Culture), 384 (Russia Today); SPA 381 (Peninsular Culture), or 385 (Latin American Culture);

  5. (zero-four courses) FRE, GER, JPN, RUS, or SPA 205 or equivalent; and


  6. \begin{hd1}Either one course for college credit taught outside the United States...

 ...y will be considered to have fulfilled the language/travel requirement.\end{hd1}

390. Individual Project: see Courses 390. 

480. Internship: see Courses 480. 

988-GRM-B. Semester in Berlin: Germany-A Reunited Nation

988-IRL. Semester in Ireland: Peace and Conflict Studies

988-MID. Semester in the Middle East: Peace and Conflict Studies

988-SWZ. Semester in Switzerland: International Studies

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