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College Catalog 2023-2024 [ARCHIVED CATALOG]
International Studies Major
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Major Requirements
Students plan their fourteen-course major in consultation with their international studies advisor. All majors must complete the following:
- Introduction. One of INTL 110 , INTL 111 , INTL 112 , INTL 113 , INTL 114
- Language. Competency in a foreign language equivalent to six semesters of college work: examples are FREN 305 - Advanced Expression: Communication Tools and FREN 306 - Introduction to Literary Analysis ; and GERM 308 - German Cultural History I: Uniting and Dividing Germany ; JAPA 306 - Third Year Japanese II ; Portuguese through PORT 331 - Journeys through Brazil ; Russian through RUSS 204 - Intermediate Russian II plus a semester immersion program abroad or its equivalent; or SPAN 305 - Advanced Oral and Written Expression or SPAN 307 - Introduction to the Analysis of Hispanic Texts . Students may complete this competency requirement while abroad. Likewise, students may meet this requirement in a language not regularly offered at the College by demonstrating equivalent ability, as confirmed by the department chair with appropriate consultation. Students for whom English is a second language have met the language requirement.
Students choosing Classics as the disciplinary focus of their International Studies major may satisfy the I.S. language requirement by passing five semesters of Greek or Latin, plus a sixth semester of advanced independent or equivalent language work. Students focusing on Hebrew or Arabic may combine work at Macalester with coursework and/or experience abroad or at neighbor institutions.
- Study abroad. One semester of study abroad on a program chosen at least in part to support the individual major plan. International students at Macalester meet this requirement by completing a semester at Macalester.
- Capstone. A capstone experience of either a senior seminar in international studies or, in select cases, an advanced independent project developed under appropriate supervision and with the approval of the department chair.
In addition to these four requirements, at the center of the major plan the student must complete a twelve-course sequence with the following characteristics:
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Focus. To develop a coherent body of knowledge with a skill set, five trans/internationally focused courses drawn from a single disciplinary department including anthropology, biology, classics, economics, English, French, geography, geology, German studies, history, Japanese, philosophy, Spanish & Portuguese studies, political science, religious studies, Russian, or sociology. Please see List 1 below. One of these courses may be a non-introductory culture-neutral methods course in the chosen disciplinary department. Please see List 2 below. This would be in addition to the methods and skills elective (H).
Alternatively, students may have an interdisciplinary focus (options are American, Asian, Environmental, Latin American, Media and Cultural, and Women’s Gender and Sexuality Studies). Of the five trans/internationally focused courses, one must be a survey/introductory course in the interdisciplinary department, two courses must be cross-listed with a single disciplinary department, and one must be a non-introductory methods or skills course within or directly relevant to the interdisciplinary field of study (this would be in addition to the methods and skills elective (H)). All courses must be chosen in consultation with the International Studies Department Chair.
- Intermediate courses. To ensure immersion in global and transnational issues, five international studies courses beyond the introduction. Students may take a second senior seminar as one of these five. At times international studies courses are cross-listed with other departments. Thus there can be up to a two-course overlap between the courses for E and F.
- Complementary elective. Allows exploration of one or more interests on the major plan from another angle. The course is chosen from List 1 below. The course must be international, outside the disciplinary focus department (E), and cannot include International Studies courses (F) without chair approval.
- Methods and skills elective. One course chosen from List 2 below (courses with fewer than 4 credits may be combined to meet this requirement).
Additional Notes:
- Courses abroad. Courses taken during study abroad may count, when appropriate, toward the major; indeed students should tailor study abroad to contribute to the major plan.
- Language courses. Courses taken to satisfy the language requirement may not be included in the fourteen-course major plan, except when the focus department under “E” is French, German, Japanese, Russian, or Hispanic studies. In these cases one advanced language course may be counted among the five disciplinary courses.
- The major plan can include one internship.
List 1: Internationalist Courses
American Studies (some courses, focusing on the U.S., acceptable for non-U.S. students)
AMST 305 - Telling Queer and Trans Stories: Oral History as Method and Practice
AMST 315 - U.S. Imperialism from the Philippines to Viet Nam
Anthropology
ANTH 101 - General Anthropology
ANTH 111 - Cultural Anthropology
ANTH 239 - Medical Anthropology
ANTH 241 - Anthropology of Death and Dying
ANTH 243 - Psychological Anthropology
ANTH 246 - Refugees/Humanitarian Response
ANTH 253 - Comparative Muslim Cultures
ANTH 255 - Latin America in Motion
ANTH 256 - India and its Neighbors: The Anthropology of South Asia
ANTH 258 - Dynamic Africa
ANTH 259 - Indigenous Peoples of the Arctic
ANTH 358 - Anthropology of Violence
ANTH 362 - Culture and Globalization
ANTH 363 - Anthropology of Development
ANTH 368 - Life Histories/Cultures/Selves (if international focus)
ANTH 380 - Stigma and Disabilities
ANTH 381 - Emerging Infectious Diseases (if international focus-possibly international public health focus)
Art (courses which focus on traditions outside the U.S.; studio courses do not count)
ART 160 - Introduction to Art History I: From Prehistory to the Medieval Period
ART 161 - Introduction to Art History II: From Renaissance to Modern
ART 272 - Art of China
ART 273 - Art of Japan
ART 252 - Gender, Sexualities, and Feminist Visual Culture
ART 270 - Making Sacred: Religious Images and Spaces in Asia
ART 271 - Japan and the (Inter)National Modern
ART 280 - Art and Architecture of Ancient Egypt
ART 281 - Art and Architecture of Ancient Near East
ART 282 - Art and Architecture of the Islamic World
ART 283 - Art and Architecture of Ancient Greece and Rome
ART 284 - Art and Architecture of Byzantium and Medieval Europe
ART 285 - Making of Imperial Cities: Babylon, Rome, and Constantinople
Asian Studies
ASIA 123 - Masterpieces of Chinese Literature
ASIA 254 - Japanese Film and Animation: From the Salaryman to the Shojo
ASIA 260 - Narratives of Alienation: 20th Century Japanese Fiction and Film
ASIA 274 - The Great Tradition in China before 1840
ASIA 275 - The Rise of Modern China
ASIA 276 - The Great Tradition in Japan before 1853
ASIA 277 - The Rise of Modern Japan
ASIA 281 - Dialects, Multilingualism, and the Politics of Speaking Japanese
ASIA 320 - Asian Cities
ASIA 378 - War Crimes and Memory in East Asia
Biology (chosen in consultation with relevant Biology faculty)
BIOL 180 - Biodiversity and Evolution
BIOL 170 - Ecology and the Environment
BIOL 357 - Immunology
BIOL 473 - Research in Immunology
BIOL 476 - Research in Biodiversity and Evolution
BIOL 406 - Seminar in Immunology
Chemistry
None
Chinese (most courses, other than language courses)
CHIN 123 - Masterpieces of Chinese Literature
CHIN 255 - China on Screen
CHIN 258 - Gender and Sexuality in China
Classics
CLAS 129 - Greek Myths
CLAS 130 - Early Arab and Persian Empires
CLAS 135 - India and Rome
CLAS 145 - Pagans, Christians and Jews in Classical Antiquity: Cultures in Conflict
CLAS 155 - January in Rome: The Art, Archaeology, and Urban History of Ancient Rome
CLAS 223 - Introduction to Archaeology
CLAS 260 - Introduction to Art History I: From Prehistory to the Medieval Period
CLAS 200 - Ancient and Medieval Philosophies
Computer Science
None
Economics
ECON 229 - World Economic History
(if international focus)
ECON 233 - Health Economics
ECON 238 - Introduction to Entrepreneurship
(if international focus)
ECON 426 - International Economic Development Capstone
Educational Studies
EDUC 250 - Building Trust: Education in Global Perspective
English (all courses in British and/or world literature, but not U.S.-focused or creative writing courses.
English courses on “neutral” or thematic subjects (such as love or justice) are evaluated case by case.
(if international focus)
(if international focus)
(if international focus)
ENGL 341 - 20th Century British Novel
(if international focus)
(if international focus)
Environmental Studies (courses focused on international and/or transnational issues)
(if international focus)
(if international focus)
ENVI 215 - Environmental Politics/Policy
ENVI 221 - Environmental Ethics
(if international focus)
ENVI 368 - Sustainable Development and Global Future
French
FREN 308 - From Lascaux to 1789: The Evolution of French Civilization
FREN 309 - Contemporary France: History, Culture and Current Events
FREN 310 - Passerelles: Introduction to French and Francophone Studies
FREN 320 - Francophone Theater of Exile and Immigration
FREN 330 - Towards a Postcolonial Pacific
FREN 331 - Haiti: Culture, Human Rights and Humanitarianism
FREN 333 - The Language of Diplomacy
FREN 370 - Translation Workshop
FREN 340 - Voices of the Francophone Mediterranean
FREN 403 - Voices from the Pacific Rim
FREN 345 - Censorship in Francophone Africa: Film, Literature and Popular Music
FREN 341 - The Francophone Caribbean Islands
FREN 350 - Contemporary Québec
FREN 440 - Science, Art and Literature in Cartography in the 16th Century
FREN 441 - Images of the World from the 16th Century to the 21st Century
FREN 442 - France from the Renaissance to the 17th Century
FREN 445 - How to Start a Revolution: Revolutionary France and its Legacy
FREN 446 - The Animal and the Human in the French Enlightenment
FREN 450 - Money and the Marketplace in the 19th Century
FREN 451 - Environmentalism in the 19th Century
FREN 342 - Literature and Cinema of Immigration in France
FREN 473 - Contemporary Art in France and Francophone Countries
FREN 475 - Parisian Women, 1730-2010
FREN 477 - African and French Cinema in Dialogue
FREN 378 - Inventing the Future: Technology, Utopia and Dystopia in French Literary and Visual Culture
FREN 371 - French Intellectuals in/and the World
FREN 420 - French Avant-Gardes in the 20th and 21st Centuries
Geography
GEOG 113 - World Regional Geography: People, Places and Globalization
GEOG 116 - Physical Geography
(if international focus)
GEOG 375 - Rural Landscapes and Livelihoods
GEOG 477 - Comparative Environment and Development
Geology
GEOL 165 - History/Evolution of Earth
GEOL 303 - Surface/Groundwater Hydrology
German Studies (most courses, other than language courses)
GERM 279 - Value: The Bad, the Ugly, and the Cheap
GERM 309 - German Cultural History II: Ruptures and Remakings of Modern Germany
GERM 337 - Dead White Men
GERM 365 - A Kafkaesque Century
GERM 366 - Cinema Studies
History
HIST 154 - African Life Histories
HIST 180 - Going Global: The Experiment of World History
HIST 235 - Captives, Cannibals, and Capitalists in the Early Modern Atlantic World
HIST 250 - Science, Magic and Belief
HIST 251 - Pirates, Translators, Missionaries
HIST 252 - Conversion and Inquisition: Religious Change
HIST 257 - Empires
HIST 262 - Soviet Union and Successors
HIST 350 - Race, Gender, and Medicine (if international focus)
HIST 353 - Oceans in World History
HIST 376 - Public History
HIST 381 - Transnational Latin Americas
HIST 382 - Remembering the Modern City
Interdisciplinary Studies
INTD 411 - Sr Seminar in Community and Global Health
International Studies
All courses
Japanese
JAPA 251 - Fiction of Modern Japan
JAPA 254 - Japanese Film and Animation: From the Salaryman to the Shojo
JAPA 260 - Narratives of Alienation: 20th Century Japanese Fiction and Film
JAPA 281 - Dialects, Multilingualism, and the Politics of Speaking Japanese
JAPA 488 - Translating Japanese Literature: Theory and Practice
Latin American Studies
LATI 171 - Susurros del Pasado: Whispers Toward the 21st Century
LATI 249 - Environment and Society in Latin America
LATI 308 - Introduction to U.S. Latinx Studies
LATI 355 - Cultural Resistance and Survival: Indigenous and African Peoples in Early Spanish America
LATI 385 - Frontera: The U.S. Mexican Border
LATI 386 - Constructions of a Female Killer
Linguistics
LING 281 - Dialects, Multilingualism, and the Politics of Speaking Japanese
LING 309 - Introduction to Hispanic Linguistics
LING 335 - Analyzing Japanese Language
LING 435 - History of the Spanish Language
LING 436 - Spanish Dialectology
LING 488 - Translating Japanese: Theory and Practice
Mathematics
None
Media and Cultural Studies (and other non U.S.-focused courses as they emerge)
(if international focus)
(if international focus)
MCST 247 - Documentary Film and Video (if international focus)
(if internationally focused enough)
MCST 256 - Mass Culture Under Communism
MCST 315 - Gender, Sexuality and Film (if international focus)
MCST 334 - Cultural Studies and the Media (if internationally focused enough)
MCST 364 - Afrofuturism in Media and Popular Culture (if internationally focused enough
MCST 376 - Critical Social Theory and the Media (if international focus)
Music
MUSI 110 - Introduction to Western Classical Music
MUSI 131 - African Music
MUSI 155 - Music and Freedom
MUSI 180 - Music, Race, and Ethnicity
MUSI 342 - Sacred, Secular, Subline: Music and Meaning in Europe, 1300-1800
MUSI 343 - Romanticism and Nationalism
MUSI 354 - Gender and Music
Neuroscience
None
Philosophy
PHIL 210 - Existentialist Metaphysics
(if internationally focused enough)
PHIL 222 - Philosophy of Human Rights
PHIL 223 - Health and Human Rights
PHIL 300 - 20th Century Continental Philosophy
Physics
None
Political Science
POLI 170 - Theories of Rhetoric (if international focus)
(if internationally focused enough)
POLI 247 - African Politics
(if international focus)
(if international focus)
POLI 266 - Medieval Political Thought
POLI 267 - Liberal and Conservative Political Theory
POLI 305 - Women’s Voices in Politics
POLI 316 - Information Politics, Policy and Law
POLI 321 - International Security
POLI 322 - Advanced International Theory
POLI 323 - Humanitarianism in World Politics
POLI 341 - Comparative Social Movements
POLI 342 - Urban Politics of Latin America
Psychology
None
Religious Studies
RELI 136 - World Religions and World Religions Discourse
RELI 145 - Pagans, Christians and Jews in Classical Antiquity: Cultures in Conflict
RELI 212 - Philosophy of Religion
RELI 226 - Martyrdom Then and Now
RELI 232 - Religion and Food
RELI 277 - Metaphysics in Secular Thought
RELI 359 - Religion and Revolution: Case Studies
Russian Studies
RUSS 255 - Fierce and Beautiful World: Russian Culture Before the Revolution
RUSS 256 - Mass Culture Under Communism
RUSS 364 - Culture and Revolution
RUSS 245 - Nabokov
RUSS 367 - Dostoevsky in Translation
Sociology
(if international focus)
SOCI 290 - Islam and the West
SOCI 370 - Political Sociology (if international focus)
Spanish and Portuguese (most courses, not language)
PORT 331 - Journeys through Brazil
SPAN 151 - Caribbean Literature and Culture: Aesthetics of Resistance
SPAN 171 - Susurros del Pasado: Whispers Toward the 21st Century
SPAN 305 - Advanced Oral and Written Expression
SPAN 307 - Introduction to the Analysis of Hispanic Texts
SPAN 309 - Introduction to Hispanic Linguistics
SPAN 316 - Mapping the New World: Exploration, Encounters, and Disasters
SPAN 343 - Culture and Politics in Spain from Civil War to Today
SPAN 354 - Here and There: Superando Limites
SPAN 355 - Cultural Resistance and Survival: Indigenous and African Peoples in Early Spanish America
SPAN 357 - El Quijote as Timeless Text
SPAN 359 - “Neither Saints Nor Sinners”: Women Writers of the Early Modern Hispanic World
SPAN 360 - One Hundred Years of Plenitude: Modern and Postmodern Hispanic Fiction
SPAN 361 - The Fight Against Tradition: From the Enlightenment to the Avant-Garde
SPAN 362 - Modern Hispanic Novel and the Visual Arts
SPAN 366 - Parody in the Postmodern Hispanic World
SPAN 367 - Dramatic Words: Hispanic Theater and Poetry
SPAN 375 - History of the Spanish Language
SPAN 382 - Constructing the Nation
SPAN 385 - Frontera: The U.S./Mexico Border
SPAN 386 - Constructions of a Female Killer
Theatre and Dance
Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies
(if international focus)
WGSS 240 - Comparative Feminisms: Whiteness and Postcolonialisms
WGSS 300 - Worlds Upside Down: Revolutions in Theories and Practices
WGSS 305 - Telling Queer and Trans Stories: Oral History as Method and Practice
WGSS 315 - Comparative (Neo/Post) Modernities WGSS 330 - Democracies, Feminisms, Capitalisms
These departments offer some courses, focusing on the United States, acceptable for use on the International Studies major plan of non-U.S. students: American Studies, Psychology, and Urban Studies.
These departments typically do not offer courses that count toward the major: Chemistry, Mathematics/Statistics/Computer Science, Neuroscience, Physical Education, and Physics/Astronomy.
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