College Catalog: 2015-2016
Salameno School of Humanities and Global Studies (SSHGS): International Studies (B.A.)
Website: Salameno School of Humanities and Global Studies
Please visit https://www.ramapo.edu/hgs/convening-group-international-studies/ to learn more about the major and minor. The International Studies program seeks to prepare students for the complex, challenging, dynamic and interdependent world of the 21st century. As we enter this “global village,” the acquisition of new skills, additional knowledge and wisdom will be necessary for effective citizenship and career aspirations. The International Studies program is designed to meet this challenge.
The program focuses on the political, economic, and cultural interdependencies and their effects on people in the emerging global system. Interdisciplinary issues of war and peace, economic and political development, and cross-cultural communication are examined, as are global concerns of population, environment, and human rights. International Studies students become knowledgeable about another world culture, proficient in another language, and participate in an exciting and rewarding international credit-bearing experiential program. An extensive array of study abroad and international cooperative-education options are available, as well as internship and service learning placements. Students may consult their advisor or the International Education Office in the Roukema Center for International Education (ASB 123) to find out more about Study Abroad opportunities. Resources are also available on the web.
Majors are required to fill an experiential learning requirement (ideally a semester-long study abroad, international cooperative education, internship or service learning). Students can enrich and broaden their academic program through participation in The Model United Nations Club, the International Student Organization, and other college organizations and clubs.
A degree in International Studies provides an excellent basis for a wide range of careers in business, government, and education, as well as for admission to graduate and professional schools which are increasingly seeking “globally literate” individuals. Graduates of this program with a combination of foreign language skills and a strong background in international affairs will be increasingly well positioned for these types of positions as the “globalization” of business, government, and education accelerates in the future.
The International Studies faculty is a highly diverse, expert, and active group of professors from a variety of fields and with extensive international experience.
The International Studies major is offered by the Salameno School of Humanities and Global Studies and leads to a B.A. degree.
A minor is available.
Outcome 1: Knowledge of current international issues.
Outcome 2: Demonstrate global geographic literacy.
Outcome 3: Proficiency in theoretical approaches to the study of culture, politics, and globalization.
Outcome 4: First-hand experiences of other cultures and international workplaces through participation in study abroad programs, international cooperative education, and internship programs.
Outcome 5: Expertise in a specific region of the world.
- Students are required to take 11 courses (44 credits) plus International Experience (Study Abroad, Co-op or Internship) to complete this major.
- Transfer students who have 48 or more credits accepted at the time of transfer are waived from the courses marked with a (W) below. Waivers only apply to General Education Requirements NOT School Core or Major Requirements.
- Double counting between General Education, School Core, and Major may be possible. Check with your advisor to see if any apply.
- Writing Intensive Requirement (six courses): three writing intensive courses in the general education curriculum are required: First Year Seminar, Critical Reading and Writing, and Readings in the Humanities; the other three courses are taken in the major. Within the International Studies major, students are required to take the Global Issues Seminar, which is Writing Intensive. They are also required to take EITHER Modern Comparative Politics or International Politics, both of which are Writing Intensive. Students are responsible for ensuring that one additional course they take within their International Studies major is also Writing Intensive.
- Note that the requirement to take either Modern Comparative Politics or International Politics is a distinct requirement from the Global Issues courses, of which students in the major must take four. If you take one of these courses to fulfill the major requirement, you are free to take the other as one of your four Global Issues courses.
- Not all courses are offered each semester. Please check the current Schedule of classes for semester course offerings.
INTERNATIONAL STUDIES MAJOR
- Subject & Course # – Title & Course Description
- GENERAL EDUCATION REQUIREMENTS
- SELECT ONE – (W) BADM 115 - PERSPECTIVES OF BUSINESS AND SOCIETY OR
- (W) SOSC 101 - SOCIAL ISSUES
- CRWT 102 - CRITICAL READING AND WRITING II
- AIID 201 - READINGS IN THE HUMANITIES (W)
- SELECT ONE – (W) GE-HISTORY CATEGORY: HIST 101-110
- SELECT ONE – GE-MATHEMATICS CATEGORY: MATH 101-121
- SELECT ONE – GE-SCIENCE WITH EXPERIENTIAL COMPONENT CATEGORY
- SELECT ONE – GE-INTERCULTURAL NORTH AMERICA CATEGORY
- SELECT ONE – GE-INTERNATIONAL ISSUES CATEGORY
- SELECT ONE – (W) GE-TOPICS SOCIAL SCIENCE CATEGORY
- Salameno School of Humanities and Global Studies REQUIREMENTS
- AIID 101 - FIRST YEAR TOPICS: LIBERAL STUDIES (W)
- FOUNDATIONS I AND
FOUNDATIONS II AND
INTERMEDIATE I OR
PROFICIENCY TEST (SEE SSHGS WORLD LANGUAGE REQUIREMENT) - INTERNATIONAL STUDIES MAJOR REQUIREMENTS
- ANTH 102 - INTRODUCTION TO ANTHROPOLOGY
- INTL 127 - INTRODUCTION TO INTERNATIONAL STUDIES
- POLI 205 - COMPARATIVE POLITICS OR
- POLI 235 - INTERNATIONAL POLITICS
- AN INTERNATIONAL / MULTICULTURAL EXPERIENCE APPROVED BY THE CONVENER. (STUDY ABROAD, CO-OP OR INTERNSHIP)
- GLOBAL ISSUES: SELECT FOUR
- ANTH 220 - FOOD AND CULTURE
- ANTH 223 - WORLD CULTURES
- ANTH 225 - INTERNATIONAL MIGRATION
- ANTH 235 - RELIGION: CROSS-CULTURAL PERSPECTIVE
- ANTH 238 - URBAN ANTHROPOLOGY
- ANTH 307 - MEDICAL ANTHROPOLOGY
- ANTH 308 - GENDER AND SEXUALITY
- ANTH 310 - POLITICS, CULTURE & IDENTITY
- ANTH 320 - NATIONALISM AND ETHNICITY
- ECON 323 - COMPARATIVE ECONOMIC SYSTEMS
- ECON 325 - INTERNATIONAL ECONOMICS
- ENST 209 - WORLD SUSTAINABILITY
- ENST 336 - GLOBAL ETHICS
- HIST 265 - THE FIRST WORLD WAR
- HIST 329 - PARADIGMS OF GENOCIDE
- HIST 394 - WAR, PEACE, AND CONFLICT RESOLUTION
- INTL 214 - ISLAM,POLITICS AND INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS
- INTL 250 - CONTEMPORARY INTERNATIONAL HUMAN RIGHTS (was 335)
- INTL 310 - CONTEMPORARY PROBLEMS IN INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS
- POLI 205 - COMPARATIVE POLITICS
- POLI 227 - POLITICS OF DEVELOPING NATIONS
- POLI 235 - INTERNATIONAL POLITICS
- POLI 312 - UNITED NATIONS: WORLD POLITICS
- POLI 315 - AMERICA'S VIETNAM EXPERIENCE
- POLI 320 - TERRORISM IN THE MODERN WORLD
- POLI 328 - LAW AND POLITICS OF THE INTERNATIONAL ENVIRONMENT
- POLI 357 - INTERNATIONAL LAW
- POLI 360 - CONFLICT RESOLUTION
- SOCI 302 - THIRD WORLD WOMEN
- AREA STUDIES: SELECT 3 COURSES FROM ONE AREA
- ASIA
- HIST 278 - THE UNITED STATES AND EAST ASIA
- HIST 307 - MODERN CHINA AND THE WORLD
- HIST 308 - KOREAN CINEMA & MODERN SOCIETY
- HIST 309 - THE KOREAN WAR AND THE INDOCHINA WARS
- HIST 310 - MODERN KOREA AND THE WORLD
- INTL 204 - PEOPLES AND CULTURES OF ASIA
- INTL 230 - CONTEMPORARY SOUTH ASIA (was ANTH 230)
- INTL 235 - CHINESE CULTURE AND CIVILIZATION
- POLI 221 - CHINESE ECONOMY IN GLOBAL PERSPECTIVE
- POLI 233 - EAST ASIA: HISTORY AND POLITICS
- POLI 253 - ASIA-PACIFIC POLITCAL SYTEMS
- POLI 301 - CHINA: HISTORY, POLITICS, AND CULTURE
- POLI 305 - JAPAN: HISTORY, POLITICS, AND CULTURE
- POLI 366 - U.S. - CHINA RELATIONS
- INDIA SEMESTER ABROAD COURSE:
- INTD 301 - SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT IN INDIA:STUDY ABROAD
- INTD 302 - INDIAN CULTURE AND SOCIETY
- INTD 303 - SOCIAL MOVEMENTS IN INDIA
- INTD 409 - FIELD STUDY PROJECT
- SOCI 208 -
- LATIN AMERICA
- ANTH 314 - CROSSING BORDERS
- CNTP 220 - CINEMA, POPULAR ARTS AND SOCIAL CHANGE
- HIST 282 - COLONIAL LATIN AMERICA
- HIST 284 - LATIN AMERICAN CULTURE AND CIVILIZATION
- INTL 283 - CONTEMPORARY LATIN AMERICA
- INTL 337 - HUMAN RIGHTS IN LATIN AMERICA
- INTL 339 - U.S.- LATIN AMERICAN RELATIONS (was HIST 386)
- SPAN 305 - SPANISH CIVILIZATION
- SPAN 307 - LATIN AMERICAN CULTURE AND SOCIETY
- SPAN 315 - HISPANIC WOMEN'S VOICES AND IMAGES
- EUROPE
- HIST 251 - POLITICS OF EUROPE
- HIST 255 - 19TH CENTURY EUROPE
- HIST 257 - 20TH CENTURY EUROPE
- HIST 262 - BRITAIN FROM 1800 TO THE PRESENT
- HIST 263 - GERMAN HISTORY
- HIST 264 - JEWS IN 20TH CENTURY EUROPE
- HIST 356 - MODERNISM AND ITS DISCONTENTS
- HIST 357 - HITLER, HOLOCAUST AND GENOCIDE
- INTL 221 -
- INTL 314 - SPANISH CINEMA
- INTL 315 - FRENCH CINEMA
- INTL 318 - ITALIAN CINEMA
- INTL 320 - ITALIAN CULTURE AND SOCIETY
- POLI 211 - RUSSIAN POLITICAL HISTORY
- POLI 302 - EUROPEAN POLITICS
- POLI 306 - RUSSIAN SOCIETY AND POLITICS
- AFRICA/MIDDLE EAST
- AFST 202 - INTRODUCTION TO AFRICAN STUDIES
- AMER 310 - U.S. RELATIONS TOWARD AFRICA
- HIST 286 - HISTORY OF WEST AFRICA
- HIST 287 - CONTEMPORARY AFRICA
- HIST 288 - WOMEN IN MIDDLE EAST SOCIETIES
- HIST 289 - ISLAMIC ART AND ARCHITECTURE
- HIST 381 - ARABIC HISTORY
- HIST 384 - EAST AFRICAN HISTORY
- HIST 385 - THE NEW SOUTH AFRICA
- INTL 282 - CONTEMPORARY MIDDLE EAST & NORTH AFRICA (was 382)
- POLI 228 - POLITICS IN AFRICA
- INTERNATIONAL STUDIES CAPSTONE COURSE: (required)
- INTL 450 - GLOBAL ISSUES SEMINAR (Fall semester only)
Note: A 2.0 GPA in the major is required for graduation.
- Students are required to take 5 courses (20 credits) to complete this minor.
- At least 1/2 of the courses fulfilling a minor must be distinct from the student’s major. That is, three of the five courses required for a minor cannot be used towards fulfillment of major requirements. A school core does not need to be completed for a minor. Minors are open to students regardless of school affiliation.
The International Studies minor seeks to prepare students for the complex, challenging, and dynamic interdependent world of the 21st century. As we enter this “global village,” the acquisition of new skills, additional knowledge and wisdom will be necessary for effective citizenship and career aspirations. The International Studies minor is designed to meet this challenge.
The program focuses on the political, economic, and cultural interdependencies and their effects on people in the emerging global system. Interdisciplinary issues of war and peace, economic and political development, and cross-cultural communication are examined, as are global concerns of population, environment, and human rights. International Studies students become knowledgeable about another world culture, and become proficient in another language.
A minor will complement Political Science, International Business, Spanish Language Studies, Communication Arts, and a variety of other majors.
INTERNATIONAL STUDIES MINOR
- Subject & Course # – Title & Course Description
- REQUIRED:
- ANTH 102 - INTRODUCTION TO ANTHROPOLOGY
- INTL 127 - INTRODUCTION TO INTERNATIONAL STUDIES
- GLOBAL ISSUES COURSE: SELECT TWO *
- AREA STUDIES COURSE: SELECT ONE*
- *Categories and electives are listed under Requirements of the Major
International Studies Website
General Education Requirements
Four Year Plan
Graduation Requirements
Salameno School of Humanities and Global Studies Website
Faculty Profiles