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Feb 10, 2025
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College Catalog 2024-2025
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: Failed and Successful Revolutions ; 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: -
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 - Japanese Art and the (Inter)National Modern ART 280 - Art and Architecture of Ancient Egypt ART 281 - Art and Architecture of Ancient Western Asia 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 - Geography, Environment, and Society: Global Processes and World Regions GEOG 116 - Physical Geography (if international focus) GEOG 375 - Rural Landscapes and Livelihoods GEOG 477 - Comparative Environment and Development: A Seminar in Political Ecology 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 - Culture and the Capital: Urban Experience in Berlin and Vienna 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 - Revolutionary Russia and the Soviet Union 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 375 - History of the Spanish Language LING 376 - 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, Sublime: 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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