International Studies (INST)

INST 1010:   Intro. to Intl. Studies  
Croft Inst International Stud  
Exploration of ways of knowing, themes and concerns of international studies, and current issues and events in their global context.  
3 credits  
Potentially offered with the following Instruction Type(s):
Seminar  
INST 1030:   Intro to Chi Lang. and Cult.  
Croft Inst International Stud  
An introduction to Chinese language and culture, providing a foundation for further study in the field. May not be counted toward major or minor credit in international studies.  
3 credits  
Potentially offered with the following Instruction Type(s):
Lecture  
INST 1070:   Introduction to Latin America  
Croft Inst International Stud  
An introduction to Latin American societies, with emphasis upon the political, economic, and cultural issues facing the region. May not be counted toward a major or minor credit in international studies.  
3 credits  
Potentially offered with the following Instruction Type(s):
Lecture  
INST 1090:   Intro. to Topics in Global St.  
Croft Inst International Stud  
Examination of specific global issues on an introductory level, drawing upon social-scientific and historical modes of inquiry. Content varies. May not be counted toward major or minor credit in international studies.  
3 credits  
Potentially offered with the following Instruction Type(s):
Lecture  
INST 1100:   Intercultural Comm: Predepart  
Croft Inst International Stud  
Prepares students to cope with cross-cultural issues before studying abroad. Z grade  
1 credit  
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Lecture/Lab  
INST 1110:   Intercultural Comm.: Reentry  
Croft Inst International Stud  
Designed to help students acquire the knowledge, skills, and attitudes that enable them to understand their study abroad experience and their readjustment to American culture in light of current intercultural theory and principles. Z grade  
1 credit  
Potentially offered with the following Instruction Type(s):
Lecture/Lab  
INST 2000:   Thinking Globally  
Croft Inst International Stud  
This course introduces students to concepts and theories that help us understand global problems, actors, processes, and institutions from a multidisciplinary perspective. It strengthens core skills for the international studies major (research, analysis, and writing) and aims at empowering students to become informed, inquisitive, innovative, and successful global citizens.  
3 credits  
Potentially offered with the following Instruction Type(s):
Lecture  
INST 2010:   African Studies  
Croft Inst International Stud  
A multidisciplinary study of sub-Saharan Africa, with emphasis on the development of ideas and institutions in the region.  
3 credits  
Potentially offered with the following Instruction Type(s):
Lecture  
INST 2030:   East Asian Studies  
Croft Inst International Stud  
A multidisciplinary study of East Asia, with emphasis on the development of ideas and institutions in the region.  
3 credits  
Potentially offered with the following Instruction Type(s):
Lecture  
INST 2050:   European Studies  
Croft Inst International Stud  
A multidisciplinary study of Europe, with emphasis on the development of ideas and institutions in the region.  
3 credits  
Potentially offered with the following Instruction Type(s):
Lecture  
INST 2070:   Latin American Studies  
Croft Inst International Stud  
A multidisciplinary study of Latin America, with emphasis on the development of ideas and institutions in the region.  
3 credits  
Potentially offered with the following Instruction Type(s):
Lecture  
INST 2090:   Middle Eastern Studies  
Croft Inst International Stud  
A multidisciplinary study of the Middle East, with emphasis on the development of ideas and institutions in the region.  
3 credits  
Potentially offered with the following Instruction Type(s):
Lecture  
INST 2110:   Reading Seminar  
Croft Inst International Stud  
Discussion of selected texts from journals, magazines, and newspapers chosen to challenge students in their analysis of current debates regarding core concerns within the international studies major. May be repeated once for credit. Z grade  
1 credit  
Potentially offered with the following Instruction Type(s):
Seminar  
INST 2120:   French News Coverage  
Croft Inst International Stud  
Structured discussion of French-language media designed to apply students’ language skills to the study (in French) of current events that touch upon core concerns within the international studies major. May be repeated once for credit. Z grade  
1 credit  
Potentially offered with the following Instruction Type(s):
Seminar  
INST 2130:   German News Coverage  
Croft Inst International Stud  
Structured discussion of German-language media designed to apply students’ language skills to the study (in German) of current events that touch upon the core of concerns within the international studies major. May be repeated once for credit. Z grade  
1 credit  
Potentially offered with the following Instruction Type(s):
Seminar  
INST 2140:   Latin American News Coverage  
Croft Inst International Stud  
Structured discussion of Latin American media designed to apply students’ language skills to the study (in Spanish) of current events that touch upon core concerns within the international studies major. May be repeated once for credit. Z grade  
1 credit  
Potentially offered with the following Instruction Type(s):
Seminar  
INST 3100:   Topics in East Asian Studies  
Croft Inst International Stud  
Studies in modern East Asia. Examination of the histories and cultures, the social, political, and economic systems of the region. Content varies. Each course offering will draw upon relevant disciplines. May be repeated once for credit.  
3 credits  
Potentially offered with the following Instruction Type(s):
Lecture  
INST 3120:   Topics in European Studies  
Croft Inst International Stud  
Studies in modern Europe. Examination of the histories and cultures, the social, political, and economic systems of the region. Content varies. Each course offering will draw upon relevant disciplines. May be repeated once for credit.  
3 credits  
Potentially offered with the following Instruction Type(s):
Lecture  
INST 3140:   Topics in Latin American St.  
Croft Inst International Stud  
Studies in modern Latin America. Examination of the histories and cultures, the social, political, and economic systems of the region. Content varies. Each course offering will draw upon relevant disciplines. May be repeated once for credit.  
3 credits  
Potentially offered with the following Instruction Type(s):
Lecture  
INST 3150:   Topics in Middle Eastern St.  
Croft Inst International Stud  
Studies in the modern Middle East. Examination of the histories and cultures, the social, political, and economic systems of the region. Each course offering will draw upon relevant disciplines. Content varies. May be repeated once for credit.  
3 credits  
Potentially offered with the following Instruction Type(s):
Lecture  
INST 3160:   Topics in Intl. Studies  
Croft Inst International Stud  
Examination of specific issues in international studies drawing upon cultural, economic, political, and social modes of inquiry. Each course offering will draw upon relevant disciplines. Content varies; may be repeated once for credit.  
3 credits  
Potentially offered with the following Instruction Type(s):
Lecture  
INST 3180:   Topics in Global Studies  
Croft Inst International Stud  
Examination of theoretical and practical aspects of specific global issues of an over arching nature, such as international human rights and population movements. Each course offering will draw upon relevant disciplines. Content varies; may be repeated once for credit.  
3 credits  
Potentially offered with the following Instruction Type(s):
Lecture  
INST 3240:   Decolonization  
Croft Inst International Stud  
This course will investigate the cultural and historical implications of the transition to political independence during the second half of the 20th century of large areas of the world that had been controlled by European empires. The end of European control of large areas of Africa and Asia not only had political and economic consequences, but it also marked an important rupture in the evolution of European society and the predominance of Western civilization.  
3 credits  
Potentially offered with the following Instruction Type(s):
Lecture  
INST 3260:   Multicultural Europe  
Croft Inst International Stud  
This course examines European immigrant and indigenous communities with an emphasis on the social construction of group identity and the politics of multiculturalism.  
3 credits  
Potentially offered with the following Instruction Type(s):
Lecture  
INST 3270:   Europe and the Middle East  
Croft Inst International Stud  
Explores shifting boundaries, exchanges, and encounters between Europe and the Middle East with emphasis on 20th and 21st-century developments.  
3 credits  
Potentially offered with the following Instruction Type(s):
Lecture  
INST 3280:   Contemporary Russia  
Croft Inst International Stud  
An interdisciplinary overview of Russian politics and culture from the end of the Soviet Union to the present.  
3 credits  
Potentially offered with the following Instruction Type(s):
Lecture  
INST 3290:   European Welfare States  
Croft Inst International Stud  
This course examines the historical, political, and social dimensions of the European social model from the end of World War II to the present.  
3 credits  
Potentially offered with the following Instruction Type(s):
Lecture  
INST 3310:   Top. in East Asian St. Abroad  
Croft Inst International Stud  
Students do departmentally approved course work at a foreign university. May be repeated with permission of international studies program.  
1 - 8 credits  
Potentially offered with the following Instruction Type(s):
Lecture  
INST 3320:   Topics in European St. Abroad  
Croft Inst International Stud  
Students do departmentally approved course work at a foreign university. May be repeated with permission of international studies program.  
1 - 8 credits  
Potentially offered with the following Instruction Type(s):
Lecture  
INST 3330:   Topics in Latamn St. Abroad  
Croft Inst International Stud  
Students do departmentally approved course work at a foreign university. May be repeated with permission of international studies program.  
1 - 8 credits  
Potentially offered with the following Instruction Type(s):
Lecture  
INST 3340:   Topics in Intl. Studies Abroad  
Croft Inst International Stud  
Students do departmentally approved course work at a foreign university. May be repeated with permission of international studies program.  
1 - 8 credits  
Potentially offered with the following Instruction Type(s):
Lecture  
INST 3350:   Top. in Mdl Eastern St. Abroad  
Croft Inst International Stud  
Students do departmentally approved coursework at a foreign university. May be repeated with permission of international studies program. Open only to majors and minors.  
1 - 8 credits  
Potentially offered with the following Instruction Type(s):
Lecture  
INST 3360:   International Studies Abroad  
Croft Inst International Stud  
This is a pass/fail course, specifically reserved for students who take content courses in the target language with local students while abroad. This course may be repeated for credit.  
1 - 12 credits  
Potentially offered with the following Instruction Type(s):
Lecture  
INST 3410:   Contemporary China  
Croft Inst International Stud  
Examination of contemporary China from an interdisciplinary perspective with emphasis on the responses of Chinese society to the transition from socialism and communism.  
3 credits  
Potentially offered with the following Instruction Type(s):
Lecture  
INST 3420:   Globalization and East Asia  
Croft Inst International Stud  
This course provides a regionally focused and multidisciplinary look at the phenomena, causes, and consequences of globalization in East Asia.  
3 credits  
Potentially offered with the following Instruction Type(s):
Seminar  
INST 3430:   Relig., the State & Conflict i  
Croft Inst International Stud  
Explores the interaction of religion and the state through case studies; examines roots of religious nationalism, relationship between religious identity and ethnicity; and international diplomatic strategies regarding religious conflicts in Asia.  
3 credits  
Potentially offered with the following Instruction Type(s):
Lecture  
INST 3440:   The Vietnam Wars, 1946-1989  
Croft Inst International Stud  
The course focuses on the four wars that swept over Vietnam during the 20th century.  
3 credits  
Potentially offered with the following Instruction Type(s):
Lecture  
INST 3450:   Japan in the World  
Croft Inst International Stud  
Using an interdisciplinary approach, this course examines Japan’s recent history to explore the causes of its contemporary economic and cultural malaise, as well as the sources of its enduring world influence.  
3 credits  
Potentially offered with the following Instruction Type(s):
Lecture  
INST 3460:   The Two Koreas  
Croft Inst International Stud  
This course examines the political, economic, cultural systems of North Korea and South Korea.  
3 credits  
Potentially offered with the following Instruction Type(s):
Lecture  
INST 3510:   Revolts & Rev.s in the Mdl Eas  
Croft Inst International Stud  
This course will examine the causes, role, and impact of various uprisings, revolts, and revolutions in the 19th-century and 20th-century Middle East.  
3 credits  
Potentially offered with the following Instruction Type(s):
Lecture  
INST 3610:   The War on Drugs in Latam  
Croft Inst International Stud  
This course examines how the "War on Drugs" has affected Latin America. It places the recent efforts at drug interdiction in the context of the history of drug production, consumption and trade and uses readings from the fields of sociology, economics, political science, and public policy to illuminate the challenges this war, presents for Latin America societies and U.S.-Latin American relations.  
3 credits  
Potentially offered with the following Instruction Type(s):
Lecture  
INST 3620:   Medicine & Rev.s in Latam  
Croft Inst International Stud  
Demands for health sector reform are intimately linked to revolutionary movements in Latin America. Cuba is the most well-known example, but medical reforms were fundamental demands during different revolutionary moments in Bolivia, Nicaragua, Chile, Chiapas, Venezuela, and elsewhere. This course asks why this is the case and looks at how healthcare reforms can legitimize or de-legitimize political movements over time.  
3 credits  
Potentially offered with the following Instruction Type(s):
Lecture  
INST 3630:   Gender in Latin America  
Croft Inst International Stud  
Historical and ethnographic examination of gender in Latin America, with an emphasis on kinship, family structure, and identity.  
3 credits  
Potentially offered with the following Instruction Type(s):
Lecture  
INST 3650:   Populism in Latin America  
Croft Inst International Stud  
This course is an interdisciplinary seminar on populism in Latin America, with a focus on the historical trajectory of populist politics, movements, and leaders in the region.  
3 credits  
Potentially offered with the following Instruction Type(s):
Lecture  
INST 3710:   Intl. Trade and Globalization  
Croft Inst International Stud  
Combining insights from the fields of economics, politics, and public policy, this course aims to give a broad training in political economy of contemporary trade policy.  
3 credits  
Potentially offered with the following Instruction Type(s):
Lecture  
INST 3720:   Global Ecog. and Conservation  
Croft Inst International Stud  
This course explores how the science of ecology relates to environmental, cultural, political, and economic issues of global and international significance.  
3 credits  
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Lecture  
INST 3740:   Intro. to International Law  
Croft Inst International Stud  
Introduction to fundamental notions of public international law and international trade law.  
3 credits  
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Lecture  
INST 3750:   Global Health  
Croft Inst International Stud  
The course aims to provide a theoretical and substantive understanding of the field of global health from a social science perspective. Topics may include communicable and noncommunicable diseases, elective biomedicine, health care delivery systems, social determinants of health, reproduction, and ethics.  
3 credits  
Potentially offered with the following Instruction Type(s):
Lecture  
INST 3810:   Res. Methods for INST Majors  
Croft Inst International Stud  
This course is an introduction to research methods of international studies majors, preparing them for the senior thesis sequence.  
3 credits  
Potentially offered with the following Instruction Type(s):
Seminar  
INST 3850:   Internship in Intl. Studies  
Croft Inst International Stud  
Internship with a business, a non-profit organization, or a government agency that includes a significant international component. Written analysis of internship experience and related academic paper required. Z grade.  
3 credits  
Potentially offered with the following Instruction Type(s):
Internship  
INST 4110:   Research in East Asian Studies  
Croft Inst International Stud  
Students conduct departmentally approved research project off campus under faculty supervision and with permission of international studies program. May be repeated with permission of international studies program.  
1 - 6 credits  
Potentially offered with the following Instruction Type(s):
Independent Study  
INST 4120:   Research in European Studies  
Croft Inst International Stud  
Students conduct departmentally approved research project off campus under faculty supervision and with permission of international studies program. May be repeated with permission of international studies program.  
1 - 6 credits  
Potentially offered with the following Instruction Type(s):
Independent Study  
INST 4130:   Research in Latin American St.  
Croft Inst International Stud  
Students conduct departmentally approved research project off campus under faculty supervision and with permission of international studies program. May be repeated with permission of international studies program.  
1 - 6 credits  
Potentially offered with the following Instruction Type(s):
Independent Study  
INST 4140:   Research in Middle Eastern St.  
Croft Inst International Stud  
Students conduct departmentally approved research project off campus under faculty supervision and with permission of international studies program. May be repeated with permission of international studies program.  
1 - 6 credits  
Potentially offered with the following Instruction Type(s):
Independent Study  
INST 4150:   Research in Intl. Studies  
Croft Inst International Stud  
Students conduct departmentally approved research project off campus under faculty supervision and with permission of international studies program. May be repeated with permission of international studies program.  
1 - 6 credits  
Potentially offered with the following Instruction Type(s):
Independent Study  
INST 4211:   Research Seminar I  
Croft Inst International Stud  
Preparatory senior thesis writing seminar required of all majors.  
3 credits  
Potentially offered with the following Instruction Type(s):
Seminar  
INST 4212:   Research Seminar II  
Croft Inst International Stud  
Senior thesis writing seminar required of all majors.  
3 credits  
Potentially offered with the following Instruction Type(s):
Seminar  
INST 4310:   Oral Proficiency Interview  
Croft Inst International Stud  
This course is designed to administer the Oral Proficiency Interview. It is required of all international studies majors in the semester immediately preceding graduation. Z grade.  
0 credits  
Potentially offered with the following Instruction Type(s):
Independent Study