International Studies Minor

Coordinator: Casey Aldrich

ISM Steering Committee: G. Parati (Chair), L. V. Adams, M. B. Burkins, C. Cortez Minchillo, S. E. Freidberg, V. K. Holt, R. A. Virginia, W. C. Wohlforth.

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The International Studies Minor is open to students from all majors seeking to better understand the cross-cutting global forces that shape the vital issues of our day.

The Minor is coordinated by the John Sloan Dickey Center for International Understanding and draws upon faculty expertise from across the College. Students graduating with a Minor in International Studies will be able to demonstrate that they are cognizant of the interplay between local and global-level processes, human and environmental interactions, and place, identity, and culture. They will further be able to apply this understanding to the complex global issues of our time in order to better understand their causes and consequences, and to assume the mantle of responsibility that comes with global citizenship.

Application for the Minor should ideally be made by the student’s sixth term of study. No course in the minor may be taken under the Non-Recording Option. For the most up-to-date information on course offerings, please visit the Dickey Center’s website: https//dickey.dartmouth.edu/programs/global-studies/international-studies-minor

Prerequisite: None.

Requirements: A total of six (6) courses, to include the following:

Six (6) thematic courses (one from each theme): International Development; International Security; Global Health; Global Environment; World Language & Culture; Great Issues Seminar.

Thematic Courses:

International Development: INTS 16 / GEOG 8.01 (Intro to International Development); ECON 24 (Development Economics); GEOG 006 (International Development); GOVT 44 (Globalization & Global Development); ECON 39 (International Trade); ECON 29 (International Macro & Finance); ECON 64: (Topics in Developing Economics); SOCY 22 (The Sociology of International Development); ENVS55 Ecological Economics

International Security: INTS 15 (Violence & Security); GOVT 53 (International Security); GOVT 4 (Politics of the World); GOVT 5 (International Politics); ANTH 28.1 / AAAS 88.08 (Ethnography of Violence); GOVT 50.02 (Civil War, Insurgency, and the International Response); GOVT 50.04 (War and Peace in the Modern Age); HIST53 (World War II: Ideology, experience, legacy); HIST62 (The First World War)

Global Health: INTS 18/GEOG 21.01 (Global Health & Society); ANTH 6 (Intro to Biological Anthropology); ANTH 55 (Anthropology of Global Health); ANTH 26 (Gender & Global Health); ENVS 28 (Global Environmental Health); SOCY 68 Global Health Systems; HIST 8 (Body Parts, Body Wholes: An introduction to the comparative history of medicine)

Global Environment: ENVS 2 (Introduction to Environmental Studies); ENVS 3 (Environment & Society); ENVS 80.08 (Science Policy & Diplomacy); ENVS 30 (Global Environmental Science); ENVS 15 (Pole to Pole); ENVS 60 (Environmental Law); ENVS 65 (Global Environmental Politics); EARS18 Environmental Earth Sciences; GEOG15 (Global Climate Change)

World Languages and Culture: One advanced foreign language or literature course (above 1, 2, 3 introductory sequence); SPEE 27 (Intercultural Communication); ANTH 3 (lntro to Cultural Anthropology); ANTH 9 (Language and Culture); COLT l (Read the World); ANTH17 (Multilingualism); WGSS 3 (Global Race x Global Migration); WGSS 41 (Transnational Feminism)

Great Issues Seminar: INTS 80.l: Violence and Prosperity; INTS 81.01: The Challenges of Global Poverty; INTS 80.02 (The United Nations in the Global Arena)  - Note: if a Great Issues Seminar is not available for your D-plan, please select a second course from one of the other five Thematic Course categories.

*OLD International Studies Minor (ISM) Requirements (Optional for 24s and 25s):

Requirements: A total of six (6) courses, to include the following:

Four (4) ‘core’ multidisciplinary courses:

• INTS 15: Violence and Security
• INTS 16: Introduction to International Development (Cross-Listed as: GEOG 08.01)
• INTS 17: Cultures, Places, and Identities

• INTS 17.09/COLT 49.06 - Multilingualism and its Others
• INTS 17.10/COLT 57.09 - How to Be a Fascist
• INTS17.16/WGSS 66.01/COLT 67.07 - Times of Crisis

•     INTS 18: Global Health and Society (Cross-Listed as: GEOG 21.01)

•     One (1) foreign language and literature course beyond 1, 2, 3 introductory sequence and excluding literature courses taught in English. If a student has been granted a language requirement waiver, is exempted from the college's foreign language requirement, or is pursuing a major or minor in a foreign language at Dartmouth, a second general elective course can be used to fulfill this requirement at the Steering Committee's discretion.

•     One (1) elective course selected from a list of courses approved by the Steering Committee.

Core Courses are offered annually. Students for whom the D-plan renders it impossible to take the specific courses above may petition the Steering Committee to substitute a similar course offered at the College. No more than two of the four core courses may be substituted. Substitutions are permitted at the discretion of the Steering Committee.