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International Studies Program

Core Requirements

All international studies majors must fulfill the following core requirements:

1. INTS 300. Special Topics in International Studies. Different sections of this course are offered every semester, each with its own sub-topic.

2. One globalcourse, from the following list: INTS200, 201, 203, 204, 212, 221, 226, 234, 249, 250, 307, 311, 315, 317, 401, and or else a second section of 300.

3. One senior exercise (SE). The senior exercise is the culmination of the work that students do in the major. Students chose a topic, conduct rigorous research, and then either write a thesis, produce a video documentary, curate an art show, produce a musical piece, or use any other form of expression that is appropriate to the research (and crafted in discussion with the adviser). Whatever the form, all senior exercises must generate substantial text. Ordinarily, students do a one-semester SE in the spring of their senior year. Those seniors who would like to do a two-semester SE should see the director at the start of their junior year (the two-semester SE earns two credits, one of which will substitute for the global requirement). For more information about the SE, see Jennifer Fichera for a "Note on the Senior Exercise."

4. Four semesters of language study. Since this is a requirement to study a culture on the college level through its language, existing proficiency in a language is not a substitute.

5. Eight additional courses. Each concentration has devised its own pathway for students. Please consult the individual concentrations, listed below, for the specific requirements.

The Writing Intensive Part II requirement is met by INTS 300.

Other Opportunities—Our program allows students to develop an independent study (INTS 399) in which students work on special projects with an individual faculty member, and to work with a faculty member as a teaching assistant (INTS 466). For more information on both, see your adviser or the director.

IDP Courses—The International Studies Program offers IDP study units (INTS 601) as well as IDP projects (INTS602) for those IDP students who are interested in developing such courses. The IDP Catalogue has more information about these courses. Permission of the instructor and special permission forms are required for these courses.

Requirements for the concentration :

The concentration consists of 15 courses, distributed as follows:

  • Required courses for all international studies majors (three courses)

    • INTS 300 . Special Topics in International Studies

    • One globalcourse

    • Senior exercise

  • Area courses (five courses)

    • AHIS 294. The Arts of Africa

    • ENGL 306. Memory and History in African Literature

    • HIST 103. Euro pe and the Post-War World from Genocide to the Struggle for Human R i ghts

    • HIST 252. African Histor ies and Cultures to 1880 : Early Period

    • HIST 253. African History: 1850 to the Contemporary Era

    • HIST 331. History of Human Rights in Africa

    • HIST 377. After Empire

    • INTS 112. Introduction to the Study of Africa

    • INTS 238. Contemporary Africa: Resource Wars

    • INTS 349. No Easy Walk to Freedom: Political Economy of Southern Africa

    • MUSC 113. World Music

    • MUSC 216. African Music

    • PHIL 223. African Philosophy

    • RELG 285. Religions of Africa

  • Language (four courses)—Two years of college-level study of one of the following languages: Arabic, French, Portuguese, or any African language available through the Self Instructional Language Program.

  • Electives (three courses)—Typically, electives are chosen from African studies courses, or else in consultation with the adviser and director, from among the many global offerings (INTS200, 201, 203, 204, 212, 221, 234, 249, 250, 307, 311, 315, 317). Students are encouraged to take an additional language course to fulfill the elective.

Requirements for the concentration :

The concentration consists of 15 courses, distributed as follows:

  • Required courses for all international studies majors (three courses):

    • INTS 300. Special Topics in International Studies

    • One globalcourse

    • Senior exercise

  • Area courses (five courses):

    • A two-semester history sequence

    • China

    • HIST 241. History of China, Shang to Ming

    • HIST 242. History of China, Qing to Present

    • Japan

    • HIST 222. Japan from the Dawn of Human History to the 17th Century

    • HIST 223. Japan into the Modern World

    • South Asia

    • INTS. 120 Introduction to South Asia

    • INTS. 121 Modern India

  • Three additional area courses (from at least three of the four disciplines)

    • Arts

    • AHIS 103. Introduction to Asian Art

    • AHIS 207 The Arts of China

    • AHIS 208. The Arts of Japan

    • AHIS 306. The Arts of the Ming Dynasty

    • MUSC 214. Topics in World Music: South Asia

    • RELG 253. Indian and Islamic Painting

    • RELG 254. Buddhist Art

    • THDN 209. Indian Dance

    • Humanities

    • AMST 260. Exploring Asian American Experiences

    • CHIN 233. Her oines, Good Guys, and Assassins

    • CHIN 233. Hong Kong Film and Literature

    • CHIN 2 33. Literature and Culture in East Asia

    • CHIN 333. Gender, Sexuality , and the Body in Chinese Literature and Culture

    • HIST 117 . Tokyo Story

    • HIST 345. Warring States: The United States and Vi e tnam

    • HIST 362 . The Samurai Warrior in History, Myth, and Reality

    • HIST 363. Living on the Margins of Modern Japan

    • HIST 402. From Treaty Port to Megacity : The Modern Transformation of Shanghai

    • JAPN 233. Japanese Novels in Translation

    • JAPN 233. Life After Death: Japanese Literature

    • Social Science

    • ANTH 244. Border land s of East and Southeast Asia

    • ANTH 247. China through Film

    • ECON 208. Asian Economics

    • ECON 216. Globalization, Rivalry and Coordination

    • INTS 202. Pacific Asia : Fall and Resurgence

    • INTS 226 . Gandhi, King, and Nonviolence

    • INTS 261. The Indian City

    • POLS 233. Asian Politics

    • POLS 302. Government and Politics of Modern Japan

    • POLS 330. Government and Politics of Contemporary China

    • Religion

    • INTS 110. Introduction to Japanese Religions

    • INTS 111. I ntroduction to East Asian Buddhism

    • INTS 209. Buddhism and Ecology

    • INTS 303. Master and Savior: Zen Monks in Japanese Culture

    • RELG 151. Religions of Asia

    • RELG 181. Islam

    • RELG 252. The Asian Mystic

    • RELG 255. Hinduism

    • RELG 256. Buddhist Thought

    • RELG 33 5 . Hindu Views of War and Peace

    • RELG 353. Buddhism in Ameri ca

Language (four courses)—If the focus in the concentration is East Asia, students must take Chinese or Japanese through the intermediate level. If the focus is South Asia or a comparative theme, students are required to take at least three credits in a language approved by the coordinator. Language credits can be earned either abroad or through the Self-Instructional Language Program (which includes instruction in Hindi, Korean, Nepali, Thai, Tibetan and Vietnamese.) Students can also pursue a study of a combination of languages upon the approval of the coordinator.

Electives (three courses)—Typically, electives are chosen from Asian studies courses, or else in consultation with the adviser and director, from among the many global offerings INTS200, 201, 203, 204, 212, 221, 234, 249, 250, 307, 311, 315, 317). Students are encouraged to take an additional language course to fulfill the elective.

Requirements for the c oncentration

The concentration consists of 15 courses, distributed as follows:

  • Required courses for all International studies majors (three courses):

    • INTS 300 . Special Topics in International Studies

    • One globalcourse

    • Senior exercise

  • Core courses (three courses):

    • ECON 216. Globalization, Rivalry, and Coordination

    • EDUC 215. Education and Social Change Across the Globe

    • INTS 201. Gender and Globalization

    • INTS 204. Global Labor

    • INTS 212. Global Politics

    • INTS 315. Global Ideologies

    • INTS 317. Planetary History

    • POLS 104. Introduction to International Relations

    • POLS 322. International Political Economy

    • SOCL 227. From Hartford to World Cities: Comparative Urban Dynamics

  • Tracks (five courses):

Gender, race , and class—Social formations are both divided and united based on the central axes of race, gender, and class. We tend to the ways in which people understand society, how they form social linkages, and how these are rent with inequities and injustices.

  • ANTH 201. Introduction to Cultural Anthropology

  • ECON 209. Urban Economics

  • ENGL 2 3 5. Global Short Fiction

  • ENGL 311. Afro-Asian Intersections

  • HIST 103. Europe and the Post-War World from genocide to the struggle for human rights

  • INTS 201. Globalization and Gender

  • INTS 204. Global Labor

  • INTS 226. Gandhi, King , and Nonviolence

  • INTS 234. Gender and Education

  • INTS 249. Immigrants and Refugees

  • INTS 307. Women's Rights as Human Rights

  • INTS 311. Feminist Diversities

  • RELG 184. Myth, Rite , and Sacrament

  • SOCI 214. Race and Ethnicity

  • SOCI 290. Race, Class , and Gender

  • SOCI 331. Masculinity

  • THDN 236. Contemporary Dance: Global Perspectives

  • WMGS 101. Women, Gender , and Sexuality

  • Language courses (four courses)—Four courses (two years of college-level study) in a language other than English. Languages must be chosen in close consultation with the academic adviser and may be taken either through regular Trinity offerings or the Self-Instructional Languages Program (SILP).

Sustainable d evelopment—Massive productive forces that once slumbered in our societies are now awakened. As they produce enormous amounts of, and new types of, goods, they run up against environmental and human limits. It is this explosion over the past 200 years, and the fallout from this expansion that is the theme studied by this track.

  • ANTH 227. Introduction to Political Ecology

  • ANTH 213. The Meaning of Money

  • ANTH 238. Economic Anthropology

  • ANTH 310. Anthropology of Development

  • ECON 207. Alternative Economic Systems

  • ECON 208. Asian Economics

  • ECON 212. Economies in Transition

  • ECON 231. Latin American Economic Development

  • ECON 317. De velopment Economics

  • ENVS 149 . Introduction to Environmental Science

  • INTS 201. Gender and Globalization

  • INTS 202. Pacific Asia : Fall and Resurgence

  • INTS 204. Global Labor

  • INTS 209. Buddhism and Ecology

  • INTS 302. Political Economy of Sub-Saharan Africa

  • INTS 308. Global Hartford

  • POLS 322. International Political Economy

Requirements for the concentration :

The concentration consists of 15 courses, distributed as follows:

  • Required courses for all international studies majors (three courses):

    • INTS 300 . Special Topics in International Studies

    • One globalcourse

    • Senior exercise

  • Area courses (five courses)

    • INTS 101. Introduction to the Latin American and Caribbean World

    • Political e conomy (two courses)

    • ECON 231. Latin American and Caribbean Economic Development

    • POLS 231. Politics and Human Rights in Contemporary Latin America

    • Studies in c ulture (one of the following)

    • INTS 262. Peoples and Culture of the Caribbean

    • HISP 263. Latin American Culture I (Pre-Columbian Era to Enlightenment)

    • HISP 264. Latin American Culture II (Independence to Present Day)

    • HISP 233.83 . Santiago

    • HISP 233 . 20th- Century Latin American Literature in Translation

    • MUSC 215 . Music of Latin America and the Caribbean

    • MUSC 219 . Toca Brasil ! (Play Brazil!)

    • MUSC 221 . Music and Gender in Latin America and the Caribbean

    • PHIL 247. Latin American Philosophy

    • History (one of the following)

    • HIST 235. Colonialism in the Americas

    • HIST 236. Modern Latin America

    • HIST 238. Introduction to Caribbean History

    • HIST 239. Race and Ethnicity in Latin American and Caribbean : A History

    • HIST 247. Latinos and Latinas in the United States

    • HIST 256. Human Rights in Latin America and Caribbean: A History

    • HIST 314. Politics and Revolution in Central America

    • HIST 339. Modern Mexico: Historical Origins

    • HIST 378. Puerto Rico and Puerto Ricans: Colony, Nation, Diaspora

    • HIST 379. The Cuban Revolution: Historical Origins and Evolution

  • Language (four courses)—Students are invited to study Spanish, French or Portuguese (through the SILP). Those whose concentration is on the French Caribbean, in particular, can take four courses of French, at the very least. Those who study Spanish must take at least four courses in the language, but no more than two courses in Group A. Students are encouraged to take more than the four courses, with the additional courses counted against the electives.

    • Group A

    • HISP 202. Intermediate Spanish II

    • HISP 221. Advanced Spanish Grammar and Composition

    • HISP 224. Spanish for Heritage Students

    • HISP 225. Iberian and Latin American Music and Conversation

    • HISP 226. Iberian and Latin American Film and Conversation

    • Group B

    • HISP 263. Latin American Culture I

    • HISP 264. Latin American Culture II

    • HISP 270. Introduction to Cultural Analysis

    • HISP 280. Hispanic Hartford

  • Electives (three courses)—One course from the global list, and two additional courses from the Latin American and Caribbean area courses. Students can fulfill part of this requirement by successfully completing two semesters of MUSC 111. Salsa Ensemble, a half credit course. Students with Spanish are encouraged to take 300-level courses, such as:

    • HISP 302 . Conquest and Colonialism

    • HISP 312. Foundational Tropes/Contested Tropes ( "The Gaucho" )

    • HISP 313. The Vision of America and its Inhabitants

    • HISP 314. Indigenous Peoples in Spanish American Literature and Culture

    • HISP 318. Gender and Sexuality in Spanish America

    • HISP 320. Emigration and Transatlantic "Cultural Commerce"

    • HISP 321. Gender, Ethnicity , and Resistance in the Andes

    • HISP 325. Literature of Popular Consciousness and Revolution

    • HISP 329. Spanish-Caribbean Identities

    • HISP 331. The Boom and Beyond

    • HISP 339. Testimonial Literature and Human Rights

    • HISP 340. U . S . Latino and Latina Writers

    • HISP 341. Latin American Poetry

    • HISP 342. Latin American Theater

    • HISP 344. Spanish American Historical Novel

    • HISP 371. Special Topics in Latin American Culture

Requirements for the concentration:

The concentration consists of 15 credits, distributed as follows:

  • Required Courses for all international studies majors (three courses):

    • INTS 300 . Special Topics in International Studies.

    • One global course

    • Senior exercise

  • Area courses (five courses)

    • INTS 130. Daily Life in the Middle East

    • Four courses from the following four general categories

    • Culture and Society

    • AHIS 205. Survey of Islamic Art and Architecture

    • JWST 220. Modern Israeli Literature and Jewish Heritage

    • JWST 225. Modern Israeli Culture

    • INTS 131 . Modern Iran

    • INTS 218 . Women, Gender and Family in the Middle East

    • INTS 235 . Youth Culture in the Muslim World

    • INTS 325 . A nthropology o f Islam

    • RELG 253 . Indian and Islamic Painting

    • History

    • HIST 228. Islamic Civilization to 1517

    • HIST 229. Middle East Since 1517

    • HIST 318. Gender and Sexuality in Middle Eastern History

    • HIST 334. Provinces of the Roman Empire

    • HIST 336. Modern Jewish History

    • HIST 374. Alexander the Great

    • INTS 258. The Islamic City

    • INTS 326. Baghdad in History

    • Politics

    • INTS 206. Arab/Israeli Conflict

    • INTS 212. Worldly Islam

    • INTS 213. Politics in the World of Islam

    • INTS 301. Arab Politics

    • INTS 344. Political Dynamics in the Middle East

    • POLS 380. War and Peace in the Middle East

    • Religion

    • RELG 103. Readings in Biblical Hebrew

    • RELG 109. The Jewish Tradition

    • RELG 181. The Religion of Islam

    • RELG 205. The Emergence of Judaism

    • RELG 207. Jewish Philosophy

    • RELG 209. R eligion in the Contemporary Middle East

    • RELG 211. Introduction to the Hebrew Bible

    • RELG 280. Approaching the Quran

    • RELG 284. Sufism, The Mystical Tradition of Islam

    • RELG 308 Jewish Mysticism

  • Language Courses (four courses)—All participants in the Middle East concentration must satisfactorily complete at least two years worth of language instruction in either Arabic or Hebrew (Biblical or Modern). Language study beyond four credits can be counted as elective work; students are strongly encouraged to do so. Students may continue language instruction beyond the second year through either classroom courses, or independent study courses.

  • Electives (three courses)—Electives include one course from the global list, and two additional courses on the Middle East (advanced level language courses are welcome as electives).

Requirements for the concentration :

The concentration consists of 15 courses, distributed as follows:

  • Required courses for all international studies majors (three courses)

    • INTS 300. Special Topics in International Studies

    • One global course

    • Senior exercise

  • Area Courses (five courses)

  • Students will choose two or three courses each from Group A and Group B for a total of five courses.

    • Group A (two or three courses)

    • ECON 207. Alternative Economic Systems

    • ECON 324. Russian Economy in the 20th Century

    • ECON 399. Independent Study on the Russian Economy

    • HIST 308. Rise of Modern Russia

    • HIST 365. World War II

    • POLS 331. Transitions to Democracy: Fascism and Communism

    • LACS 233-38. Soul, Flesh and the Russian Mystique

    • RUSS 233.08. Russia on Trial: Literature Speaks Out

    • Group B (two or three courses)

    • LACS 233.36. Fantasy and Realism in Russian Literature

    • LACS 233.82. Love, Sex, and War in Tolstoy

    • LACS 233. Russian Theater

    • LACS 333.10. Dostoevsky

  • Language Courses (four courses)

    • RUSS 101. Intensive Elementary Russian I

    • RUSS 102. Intensive Elementary Russian II

    • RUSS 201. Intermediate Russian I

    • RUSS 202. Intermediate Russian II

    • RUSS 210. Advanced Russian Conversation

    • RUSS 221. Russia through Russian Prose

    • RUSS 301. Russian through Literature and Film

    • RUSS 302. Russian Prose Narrative

    • RUSS 303. Russian Phonetics, Contemporary and Historical

    • RUSS 304. The Current Russian Media

Electives (three courses)—In order to ensure a degree of mastery in a single discipline or distinctive mode of inquiry, each student is required to take three courses in one of the following disciplines: economics, history, political science, or Russian literature. These courses can include area courses from section above and their prerequisites.