Spring 2025 Electives and Capstones
In addition to regularly scheduled electives and capstones, the courses listed below are available for the Spring 2025 semester and are approved for IR credit — please make sure you have the prerequisites. If you plan to take a course for major credit that is not on this list, but has international-relations content, please contact either the Program Director or the Director of Advising .
Economics
ECON
100-01
Understanding Global Poverty
Elective
ECON
100-02
Understanding Global Poverty
Elective
ECON
342-01
Global Economic History
Elective
ECON
481-01
Macroeconomics of Development
Capstone
ECON
485-01
Globalization & Inequality
Capstone
Government
GOVT
150-03
US-Chinese Relations
Elective
GOVT
150-04
US-Chinese Relations
Elective
GOVT
150-06
Democracy at Home & Abroad
Elective
GOVT
388-01
The Bosnia Project
Elective
GOVT
391-03
Politics and Policies of Intl. Org.
Elective
GOVT
391-14
Innovation for Defense
Elective
GOVT
392-03
Anticolonial Politics
Elective
GOVT
402-01
Borders, Boundries & Democracy
Capstone
GOVT
402-02
Global Political Theory Project
Capstone
GOVT
404-01
Diplomacy & Intl. Relations
Capstone
GOVT
404-02
Great Power Politics
Capstone
GOVT
404-04
East Asian Security
Capstone
GOVT
404-05
Politics of Global Health
Capstone
History
HIST
212-01
History of the Holocaust
Elective
HIST
212-03
Long History of Christian Ireland
Elective
HIST
212-04
World War II on the Eastern Front
Elective
HIST
212-09
Disorderly People in the Atlantic
Elective
HIST
212-10
A History of Money
Elective
HIST
212-11
Haitian Revolution
Elective
HIST
212-12
Pacific War
Elective
HIST
212-15
Fascism in Italy
Elective
HIST
337-01
Modern Iran since 1800
Elective, Part C
HIST
491C-02
History and the Diplomat
Capstone
HIST
491C-04
Indian Ocean Worlds
Capstone
HIST
491C-05
War and Memory
Capstone
Sociology
SOCL
362-01
Medical Sociology
Elective