Students whose interest and/or career plans have an international orientation may wish to pursue a minor in International Studies. Twenty-four semester hours, distributed as follows, are required for the International Studies minor.
Students minoring in International Studies must take HY 101 Western Civilization I (3) and HY 102 Western Civilization II (3) and must take GY 120 World Regional Geography (3) and GY 220 Human Geography (3). The history courses and geography courses may also count toward the general studies curriculum history and social/behavioral science requirements.
| Course | Title | Credits |
|---|---|---|
| Political Science 1 | ||
| PSC 100 | Introduction to American Government (Political Science majors must take an additional course from the Global Studies field) 1 | 3 |
| PSC 232 | Introduction to International Relations | 3 |
| PSC 423 | American Foreign Policy | 3 |
| Select one of the following: | 3 | |
| Governments of Europe | ||
| Governments of Latin America | ||
| Governments of the Middle East | ||
| Governments of Asia | ||
| Geography 1 | ||
| Select one of the following: | 3 | |
| Political Geography | ||
| Economic Geography | ||
| Topics in Cultural Geography (WI) | ||
| Select one of the following: | 3 | |
| Advanced Regional Study | ||
| Cultural Anthropology | ||
| Current Social Issues 2 | ||
| Electives | ||
| Select two from the following: | 6 | |
| Foreign Language-by advisement 2 | ||
| History 2 | ||
| History of Great Britain, 1689 to the Present | ||
| Russian History through the Revolutions of 1917 | ||
| Russian History from 1855 to the Present | ||
| The Age of the Cold War: Europe, 1945-Present | ||
| Modern France | ||
| The British Empire and Commonwealth | ||
| Constitutional History of England | ||
| Modern Middle East | ||
| Colonial Latin America | ||
| Modern Latin America | ||
| United States-Latin American Relations | ||
| History of Mexico | ||
| Sociology | ||
| Religion, Spirituality, and Cults | ||
| College of Business and Industry | ||
| International Economics | ||
| International Finance | ||
| International Management | ||
| Total Hours | 24 | |
| 1 | Courses counted toward the major may not also be counted toward the International Studies minor. |
| 2 | Where possible, all area-specific courses should focus on the same area: Western Europe, the former Soviet Union and Eastern Europe, Far East, Latin America, the Middle East, etc. |