Descriptions of Required Courses for an IR program of study:

INTL 101 Global Politics

INTL 213 World Regional Geography
This course is a study of the earth in terms of the cultural, environmental, historic, economic, and organizational qualities of its human inhabitants.

INTL 321 Research Methods
This course provides and introduction to research methods and writing covering such concepts as hypotheses, research designs, and techniques of analysis. Required of all majors, it may be taken either the sophmore or junior year.

POLI 270 International Relations Theory
This course analyzes the politics among nation-states with particular attention to the political, military, technological, and economic forces at work shaping the post-Cold War world. Students will also explore theories of international conflict and cooperation.

POLI 301 Politics of Developing Areas
This course provides an examination of deveoping nations with a view toward understanding problems inherant in social, economic, and political change including the creation of nationalist sentiments, calls for democracy, improving the conditions of life, and promoting security and stability.

ECON 308 International Economic Policy
This course focuses on the major areas of importance in current international policy and deals with basic issues of international trade policy, international monetary relationships, and oprerations of transnational corporations in the world economy. Basic tools if analysis developed in the mircroeconomics and macroeconomics principals courses are used in the study of these issues.

INTL 400 Senior Thesis in International Relations
The senior thesis is designed to be a capstone course in which the student, working under the supervision of one of the members of the International Relations Program Committee, designs and executes a research program in some aspect of international relations. The course culminates with the writing and presentation of a formal research paper.