Options for Concentrators

Advanced Course Work. Students will choose one of two tracks in pursuing advanced course work: (A) Global Studies; or (B) Regional Studies. Both tracks ask students to explore the interconnections of a range of issues such as the consequences of global economic markets; internal and external challenges to the nation-state; national and transnational environmental concerns; migration and immigration; formulation and reformulation of individual, ethnic, racial, and religious identity; and competing sources of knowledge for understanding the world in which we live. The Regional Studies track permits students to address these same issues in a more focused way by examining one of the following: Asia, Europe, Latin America and the Caribbean, the Middle East, or the Third World. Six courses are required within each track. Students choose these in consultation with their advisors. Students who choose the Regional Studies track should work with an advisor who has expertise in the region chosen.

Combined Major Requirements: Students wishing to complete a combined major in IIS and another major will need to complete all requirements for the regular major, except that the minimum number of advanced courses is reduced to three instead of six courses. These three advanced courses must still be distributed across three of the four course groupings listed under the Global Studies and Regional Studies tracks.