IR Major Requirements
Revised 1/27/09
Catalog Year:
TO MAJOR IN INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS YOU NEED:
At least 36 credit hours are needed for the B.A. degree.
Required Courses:
_____ECO 210 Principles of Macroeconomics
_____ECO 211 Principles of Microeconomics
_____GPY 235 World Regional Geography
_____HST 317 History of American Foreign Relations
_____PLS 211 International Relations
_____PLS 312 U.S. Foreign Policy
_____IR 495 Seminar in International Relations (Capstone)
Elective Courses:
The remaining 15 hours should be selected from the list of international relations course electives below and must include a minimum of three hours at the 300 level or above in each of the three categories:
A. Economics and Business
B. History and Geography
C. Political Science.
A. Economics and Business
_____ECO 349 Emerging Markets Issues
_____ECO 365 Comparative Economic Systems
_____ECO 369 International Economic Issues
_____FIN 429 International Financial Management
_____HTM 202 International Tourism
_____MGT 466 International Management and Multinational Corporations
_____MKT 359 Multinational Marketing
B. History and Geography
_____GPY 350 Geography of Russia and Its Neighbors
_____GPY 351 Geography of Africa
_____GPY 352 Geography of Latin America
_____GPY 354 Geography of Asia
_____GPY 355 Geography of Southwest Asia (The Middle East)
_____GPY 356 Geography of Europe
_____HST 210 Empire, Culture and Conflict
_____HST 211 History of Islamic Civilization
_____HST 331 Modern Latin America
_____HST 333 Modern Chinese History
_____HST 336 Africa After 1870
_____HST 337 The Age of Islamic Empire
_____HST 338 Modern Middle East
_____HST 341 History of East Asia Since 1800
_____HST 385 Europe 1900-1945
_____HST 386 Europe Since World War II
_____HST 390 Soviet History
_____LAS 374 Revolution in the Americas
C. Political Science
_____PLS 212 Great Decisions
_____PLS 221 Government and Politics of Western Europe
_____PLS 283 Chinese Politics and US-Chinese Relations
_____PLS 284 Latin American Politics
_____PLS 311 International Conflict and Conflict Resolution
_____PLS 313 International Organization
_____PLS 314 International Law
_____PLS 315 International Political Economy
_____PLS 316 Human Rights in International Politics
_____PLS 319 African Politics
_____PLS 321 The European Union
_____PLS 327 Politics of Developing Countries
_____PLS 339 Comparative Democratization
_____PLS 382 Politics of Post-Communist Europe
_____PLS 385 Russian and Post-Soviet Politics
_____LAS 320 Model Organization of American States
_____MES 380 Model Arab League
D. Special Topics and Independent Studies
_____IR 380 Special Topics
_____IR 399 Independent Readings
_____IR 490 Internship
_____IR 499 Independent Research
Degree cognate: The B.A. degree requires fourth-semester proficiency in a foreign language of IR majors who enter GVSU starting with the 2004-5 catalog year.
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