The Global Security named option is being renamed Global Peace and Security. Students will be able to earn a named option in Global Security through the end of Summer 2027. Beginning in Fall 2027, the award will be the named option in Global Peace and Security.
Requirements
Global Security Option
In addition to the Foundational Requirements of the International Studies major, complete these requirements specific to the Global Security Option:
Global Security Core
| Code | Title | Credits |
|---|---|---|
| Complete 9 credits from: | 9 | |
| Contemporary Political Discourse | ||
| Rhetoric of Globalization and Transnationalism | ||
| Climate Change, Sustainability, and Education | ||
| Education for Global Change | ||
| Revolutions and Social Change | ||
| East Asia & The U.S. Since 1899 | ||
| The Koreas: Korean War to the 21st Century | ||
| The History of Punishment | ||
| Social Movements and Revolutions in Latin America | ||
| Topics in Global Security | ||
| Contentious Politics | ||
| Study Abroad Topics in Global Security | ||
| Topics in Global Security | ||
| The Literature of Migration and the Migrant Experience in the Americas | ||
| Global Food Security | ||
| Theories of International Security | ||
| The Russian War on Ukraine: Causes and Consequences | ||
| Conflict Resolution | ||
| Nationalism and Ethnic Conflict | ||
| States in the World: Comparative Foreign Policy | ||
| American Foreign Policy | ||
| Nuclear Weapons and World Politics | ||
| Arab-Israeli Conflict | ||
Global Security Issues
| Code | Title | Credits |
|---|---|---|
| Complete 9 Credits from: | 9 | |
| Climate Change Economics and Policy | ||
| Archaeology of Warfare and Human Nature | ||
| Earth's Water: Natural Science and Human Use | ||
| Global Change: Atmospheric Issues and Problems | ||
| Polar Regions and Their Importance in the Global Environment | ||
| Global Warming: Science and Impacts | ||
| Technology and Society | ||
| Globalizing Education | ||
| Internationalizing Educational Knowledge | ||
| Border and Migration Studies of Latinx America | ||
| Education across the Americas: Empire, Capitalism, and Resistance | ||
| Topics in Rhetoric and Communication Science (Dscrse Dictars, Demago, Extmts) | ||
| Topics in Rhetoric and Communication Science (Rhet Soc Change: Latin America) | ||
| Rhetoric of Campaigns and Revolutions | ||
| Global Technology & Digital Culture | ||
| Contemporary Political Discourse | ||
| Rhetoric of the Cold War | ||
| Rhetoric of Globalization and Transnationalism | ||
| Climate Change, Sustainability, and Education | ||
| Education across the Americas: Empire, Capitalism, and Resistance | ||
| Education for Global Change | ||
| History of Radical and Experimental Education in the US and UK | ||
| Insects and Human Culture-a Survey Course in Entomology | ||
| People, Land and Food: Comparative Study of Agriculture Systems | ||
| Sustainability Tools: Systems Thinking & Life Cycle Assessment | ||
| Global Warming: Science and Impacts | ||
| Special Topics in the Environment: Biological Aspects of Envir St (Ecology the Global Environment) | ||
| Special Topics: Social Perspectives in Environmental Studies (International Envir Law Policy) | ||
| Special Topics: Social Perspectives in Environmental Studies (Natrl Hazard Resiliency Plang) | ||
| Global Environmental History | ||
| Environment, Natural Resources, and Society | ||
| Revolutions and Social Change | ||
| World Regions in Global Context | ||
| Cultures of Sustainability: Central, Eastern, and Northern Europe | ||
| The Historian's Craft (Japan after 1945) | ||
| The Historian's Craft (Tech. Rev. in Middle East) | ||
| The Historian's Craft (Africa and the Global Cold War) | ||
| The Historian's Craft (Russia and America) | ||
| The Historian's Craft (The Arab Spring) | ||
| The Historian's Craft (Mercenaries Pirates E. Mod Med) | ||
| Explorations in Third World History (H) (Jihad Movements in Africa) | ||
| Explorations in Transnational/Comparative History (Humanities) (Anarchism: a Global History) | ||
| Explorations in Transnational/Comparative History (Humanities) (Mideast Nationalism, Migration) | ||
| Explorations in Transnational/Comparative History (Humanities) (Empire in the Second World War) | ||
| War, Race, and Religion in Europe and the United States, from the Scramble for Africa to Today | ||
| The Vietnam Wars | ||
| East Asia & The U.S. Since 1899 | ||
| The Koreas: Korean War to the 21st Century | ||
| Contemporary France, 1914 to the Present | ||
| The First World War and the Shaping of Twentieth-Century Europe | ||
| The Second World War | ||
| China and World War II in Asia | ||
| History of Soviet Russia | ||
| The Soviet Union and the World, 1917-1991 | ||
| The History of Punishment | ||
| Pearl Harbor & Hiroshima: Japan, the US & The Crisis in Asia | ||
| Advanced Seminar in History (Emp Revol SE Asia) | ||
| Advanced Seminar in History (European Extreme Right) | ||
| Advanced Seminar in History (CIA Covert Wars US Foreign Pol) | ||
| Social Movements and Revolutions in Latin America | ||
| From Fascism to Today: Social Movements and Politics in Europe | ||
| The Cold War - From World War II to End of Soviet Empire | ||
| Topics in Global Security | ||
| Contentious Politics | ||
| Study Abroad Topics in Global Security | ||
| Topics in Global Security | ||
| Topics in International Studies | ||
| Israeli Politics and Society | ||
| The Literature of Migration and the Migrant Experience in the Americas | ||
| In Translation: Lit of Modern Italy-Existentialism, Fascism, Resistance | ||
| Issues in Social Philosophy | ||
| Global Food Security | ||
| Non-Democracies | ||
| State-Building: How States Are Formed, Function, and Influence Society | ||
| Theories of International Security | ||
| The Russian War on Ukraine: Causes and Consequences | ||
| Conflict Resolution | ||
| Terrorism | ||
| Principles of International Law | ||
| States in the World: Comparative Foreign Policy | ||
| American Foreign Policy | ||
| Islam and Politics | ||
| Nuclear Weapons and World Politics | ||
| Study Abroad Topics in Political Science: International Relations | ||
| Topics in Political Science (Asia-Pacific Sec Foreign Rel) | ||
| Topics in Political Science (Global Politics of Policing) | ||
| Selected Topics in Political Science (Authoritarianism) | ||
| Selected Topics in Political Science (Dictators on the World Stage) | ||
| Nationalism and Ethnic Conflict | ||
| Arab-Israeli Conflict | ||
| Proseminar: Topics in Political Science (Crisis Decis-Making World Poli) | ||
| Study Abroad Topics in Political Science: Comparative Politics | ||
| Muslims and Jews | ||
| Contemporary Russia: History, Politics, and Culture | ||
Global Security Electives
Complete 9 credits of Global Security electives.
| Code | Title | Credits |
|---|---|---|
| Complete 9 credits from: | 9 | |
| The Environment and the Global Economy | ||
| The International Agricultural Economy | ||
| World Hunger and Malnutrition | ||
| Global Health: Economics, Natural Systems, and Policy | ||
| Special Topics (Russian Labor: Econ, Soc Pol) | ||
| Special Topics (Ineq, Labor Mrkts, Pst Socialism) | ||
| Economic Decision Analysis | ||
| Economic Growth and Development in Southeast Asia | ||
| Economic Problems of Developing Areas | ||
| Agricultural and Economic Development in Africa | ||
| Natural Resource Economics | ||
| Intellectual Property Rights, Innovation and Technology | ||
| Introductory Topics in African Cultural Studies | ||
| Introductory Topics in African Literature | ||
| The African Storyteller | ||
| Introduction to Yoruba Life and Culture | ||
| Global HipHop and Social Justice | ||
| African and African-American Linkages: An Introduction | ||
| African Literature in Translation | ||
| Soccer in Africa | ||
| Islam: Religion and Culture | ||
| Topics in African Cultural Studies | ||
| Topics in African Literature | ||
| Everyday Religion in Africa | ||
| Contemporary African Fiction | ||
| Contemporary African and Caribbean Drama | ||
| African/Francophone Film | ||
| Lusophone African Literature | ||
| Introduction to African Art and Architecture | ||
| Black Feminisms | ||
| The Caribbean and its Diasporas | ||
| Japanese Popular Culture | ||
| Korean Popular Culture | ||
| Tibetan Cultures and Traditions | ||
| Topics in Asian Studies (Cambodian Genocide) | ||
| Social Science Topics in Asian Studies | ||
| Introduction to Comics and Graphic Novels: Theory, History, Method | ||
| Modern Indian Literatures | ||
| Japanese Ghost Stories | ||
| Haiku | ||
| Topics in Chinese Literature | ||
| Korean Cinema | ||
| Survey of Chinese Film | ||
| Manga | ||
| Anime | ||
| Cities of Asia | ||
| Southeast Asian Literature | ||
| Gods and Goddesses of South Asia | ||
| Visual Cultures of India | ||
| Indian Traditions in the Modern Age | ||
| Indian Writers Abroad: Literature, Diaspora and Globalization | ||
| Mapping, Making, and Representing Colonial Spaces | ||
| Proseminar: Studies in Cultures of Asia (Human Rights in Asia) | ||
| Proseminar: Studies in Cultures of Asia (Violence, Justice, History SEA) | ||
| Proseminar: Studies in Cultures of Asia (Law and Judgment in Asia) | ||
| Indigenous Environmental Communicators | ||
| Critical Indigenous Ecological Knowledges | ||
| Introduction to Social Medicine | ||
| Cultural Anthropology: Theory and Ethnography | ||
| Music, Race, And Culture in Brazil | ||
| Political Anthropology | ||
| Medical Anthropology | ||
| Passage Through India: South Asia's Global Architectural Histories | ||
| Cross-Cultural Arts Around the Atlantic Rim: 1800 to the Present | ||
| Mecca, Cairo, Istanbul, Delhi: Great Cities of Islam | ||
| Topics in Asian Art | ||
| Topics in African and African Diaspora Art History (Curating Contemp. African Art) | ||
| Art and Power in the Arab World | ||
| Global Modernisms | ||
| Plants and Humans | ||
| Food, Culture, and Society | ||
| Issues in Food Systems | ||
| Community Development | ||
| Mexican-American Politics | ||
| Feminist Social Movements Across the Americas | ||
| Sociodemographic Analysis of Mexican Migration | ||
| Critical Internet Studies | ||
| Introduction to Film | ||
| Intercultural Communication & Rhetoric | ||
| The Rhetoric of Religion | ||
| Technology and Development in Africa and Beyond | ||
| French Film | ||
| Global Media Cultures | ||
| Italian Film | ||
| Global Art Cinema | ||
| Rhetoric of Globalization and Transnationalism | ||
| Introduction to Cross-Cultural Literary Forms | ||
| Human Trafficking: Global and Local Perspectives | ||
| The Human Rights of Children and Youth: Global and Local Perspectives | ||
| Global Health and Communities: From Research to Praxis | ||
| Cultural Cross Currents: West African Dance/Music in the Americas | ||
| Environments of Crisis & Design | ||
| Global Artisans | ||
| Culture and Built Environment | ||
| Money and Banking | ||
| The Chinese Economy | ||
| Economics of Poverty and Inequality | ||
| Contemporary Economic Issues | ||
| International Macroeconomics | ||
| International Trade | ||
| International Industrial Organizations | ||
| Economics of Growth | ||
| Issues in International Macroeconomics | ||
| Issues in International Trade | ||
| Issues in International Finance | ||
| Education and Public Policy | ||
| Education for Social Justice | ||
| Human Rights and Education | ||
| Comparative Education | ||
| Education in East Asia | ||
| Introduction to International Education Development | ||
| Globalization and Education | ||
| Education in Emergencies | ||
| Anthropology and Education | ||
| Language Politics and Education | ||
| Vladimir Nabokov: Russian and American Writings | ||
| Literature and Culture II: from the 18th Century to the Present | ||
| Modernist Poetry | ||
| British Literature since 1900 | ||
| Global Spread of English | ||
| Topic in British Literature and Culture since 1900 | ||
| Topic in Contemporary Literature (Global Reproductive Justice) | ||
| Topic in Contemporary Literature (Protest Literature) | ||
| Topic in Literature and the Environment (African Literary Ecologies) | ||
| British Drama, 1914 to Present | ||
| Postcolonial Theatre: Drama, Theory and Performance in the Global South | ||
| Principles of Environmental Science | ||
| Our Planet, Our Health | ||
| Global Environmental Health: An Interdisciplinary Introduction | ||
| Sustainability | ||
| Environmental Economics | ||
| Climate Change Governance | ||
| Special Topics: Environmental Perspectives in the Physical Sciences (Sust Science, Tech, and Policy) | ||
| Global Environmental History | ||
| Introduction to Environmental Health | ||
| Forests of the World | ||
| Foodways | ||
| Rebellious Women from the Global South | ||
| Doctors without Borders (Médecins Sans Frontières) | ||
| Professional Communication and Culture in the Francophone World | ||
| Contemporary Issues in Business, Government and NGOs | ||
| Gender, Sexuality, and Global Health | ||
| Special Topics in Gender, Women and the Humanities | ||
| Special Topics in Gender, Women and Society (Politics Gender Rights - Mideast) | ||
| Women in Cross-Societal Perspective | ||
| The Female Body in the World: Gender and Contemporary Body Politics in Cross Cultural Perspective | ||
| Contemporary Feminist Theories | ||
| Women and Politics | ||
| Gender and Global Health in Critical Perspective | ||
| Special Topics in Gender and Biology (Global Migration Trafficking) | ||
| Special Topics in Gender and Biology (Migration Human Trafficking) | ||
| Introduction to Human Geography | ||
| Global Environmental Issues | ||
| Economic Geography: Locational Behavior | ||
| Introduction to the City | ||
| International Migration, Health, and Human Rights | ||
| Introduction to Geopolitics | ||
| Green Urbanism | ||
| Environmental Conservation | ||
| World Regions in Global Context | ||
| Economic Geography | ||
| Power, Place, Identity | ||
| Environmental Governance: Markets, States and Nature | ||
| Culture and Environment | ||
| The Humid Tropics: Ecology, Subsistence, and Development | ||
| Development and Environment in Southeast Asia | ||
| Energy Resources | ||
| Topics in Dutch Life and Culture | ||
| Topics in German Culture | ||
| Study Abroad in German Culture | ||
| German-Jewish Culture Since the 18th Century | ||
| Introductory Topics in GNS (Berlin-Istanbul Connections) | ||
| Literatures of Central Asia | ||
| Global Environmental Health: An Interdisciplinary Introduction | ||
| Science, Medicine and Religion | ||
| Special Topics in the History of Science (Race, Colonialism, Environment) | ||
| Health Inequalities in the Long 20th Century | ||
| Health, Disease and Healing II | ||
| International Health and Global Society | ||
| Disease, Medicine and Public Health in the History of Latin America and the Caribbean | ||
| The Historian's Craft (1945 in Europe) | ||
| The Historian's Craft (Global Migrations) | ||
| The Historian's Craft (Global History of Unfree Labor) | ||
| The Historian's Craft (Postcolonialism) | ||
| The Historian's Craft (History of Humanitarianism) | ||
| The Historian's Craft (Global History of Human Rights) | ||
| The Historian's Craft (Mass Migrations) | ||
| The Historian's Craft (Global Christianities) | ||
| The Historian's Craft (The Camera as Historian) | ||
| The Historian's Craft (Sex Love in Asian Religions) | ||
| The Historian's Craft (Women Gender in Mod. Europe) | ||
| The Historian's Craft (Global Inequality) | ||
| The Historian's Craft (Environment, Markets, Scarcity) | ||
| Explorations in European History (H) (Cold War in European Culture) | ||
| Explorations in European History (H) (Europe's Urban Age 1900-today) | ||
| Explorations in European History (H) (20th Century Britain on Film) | ||
| Explorations in European History (H) (War on Film in Europe) | ||
| Explorations in Transnational/Comparative History (Humanities) (The History of War in Film) | ||
| Explorations in Transnational/Comparative History (Humanities) (Love Sex in Asian History) | ||
| Explorations in Transnational/Comparative History (Humanities) (Transnational Islam) | ||
| Explorations in Transnational/Comparative History (Humanities) (The Emergence of Capitalism) | ||
| Southeast Asian Refugees of the "Cold" War | ||
| The Holocaust | ||
| Cultural History of Korea | ||
| History of the Peoples Republic of China, 1949 to the Present | ||
| France from Napoleon to the Great War, 1799-1914 | ||
| Women and Gender in Modern Europe | ||
| Immigration and Assimilation in American History | ||
| American Foreign Relations, 1901 to the Present | ||
| Global Environmental History | ||
| Advanced Seminar in History (Gandhi, King, Mandela) | ||
| Advanced Seminar in History (Holocaust Victims Survivors) | ||
| Advanced Seminar in History (Global History of Non-Violence) | ||
| Advanced Seminar in History (Gen, War Crim, Human Rts - 20C) | ||
| Advanced Seminar in History (Totalitarianism) | ||
| Advanced Seminar in History (Global Anti-Apartheid Movement) | ||
| Advanced Seminar in History (Health Healing - Mod Africa) | ||
| Advanced Seminar in History (The European Union in History) | ||
| The American Impact Abroad: The Historical Dimension | ||
| The Literature of Migration and the Migrant Experience in the Americas | ||
| Interdisciplinary Studies in the Arts and Literature (Sex, Drugs, Lit Latin America) | ||
| First-Year Seminar in the Social Sciences | ||
| International Business | ||
| Intercultural Communication in Business | ||
| Contemporary Topics | ||
| Latin American Economic Development | ||
| Global Language Issues | ||
| Lead with Languages: Putting Language Skills to Work | ||
| Arabic Literature and Cinema | ||
| The Global Game: Soccer, Politics, and Identity | ||
| Universal Basic Income: The Politics Behind a Global Movement | ||
| Contemporary Issues in International Studies | ||
| Global History of Humanitarianism | ||
| Globalization and Education | ||
| Globalization, Poverty and Development | ||
| The Growth and Development of Nations in the Global Economy | ||
| Topics in Politics and Policy in the Global Economy | ||
| Topics in Culture in the Age of Globalization | ||
| Topics in Human Rights and Humanitarianism | ||
| The Politics of Human Rights | ||
| The Comparative Study of Genocide | ||
| Study Abroad Topics in Politics and Policy in the Global Economy | ||
| Study Abroad Topics in Culture in the Age of Globalization | ||
| Women's Global Health and Human Rights | ||
| Topics in Politics and Policy in the Global Economy | ||
| Topics in Culture in the Age of Globalization | ||
INTL ST 605 | ||
| Topics in International Studies | ||
| Modern Italian Culture | ||
| Israeli Politics and Society | ||
| Intermediate Topics in Jewish Literature (Holocaust: Testimony Expression) | ||
| Intermediate Topics in Jewish Studies: Social Sciences (The Politics of Human Rights) | ||
| Moral Philosophy and the Holocaust | ||
| Holocaust: History, Memory and Education | ||
| Mass Media and Global Communication | ||
| Health Communication in the Information Age | ||
| Mass Communication and Political Behavior | ||
| International Communication | ||
| Race and Culture in the Americas | ||
| The Literature of Migration and the Migrant Experience in the Americas | ||
| Human Rights in Law and Society | ||
| Women and the Law | ||
| Topics in Legal Studies and the Humanities (Courts, Conts and Human Rights) | ||
| Language and Culture | ||
| The Information Society | ||
| Food Cultures in Italian Literature | ||
| Survey of 19th and 20th Century Russian Literature in Translation I | ||
| Survey of 19th and 20th Century Russian Literature in Translation II | ||
| Women in Russian Literature in Translation | ||
| Introduction to Luso-Afro-Brazilian Literature | ||
| Soviet Life and Culture Through Literature and Art (from 1917) | ||
| Topics in Slavic Literatures in Translation | ||
| National Identity in the Global World: The Italian Case | ||
| German Women Writers in Translation | ||
| In Translation: Masterpieces of Scandinavian Literature-the 20th Century | ||
| Special Topics in German and World Literature/s | ||
| Topics in French Literature and Culture | ||
| Topics in Dutch Literature in Translation | ||
| In Translation: The Art of Isak Dinesen/Karen Blixen | ||
| Topics in Japanese Literature | ||
| History of Serbian and Croatian Literature | ||
| Polish Literature (in Translation) since 1863 | ||
| Global Immersion in Marketing | ||
| Global Marketing Strategy | ||
| Topics in Ethics and History of Medicine | ||
| Survey of Music in the Twentieth Century | ||
| Introduction to Global Health | ||
| Contemporary Moral Issues | ||
| Food Ethics | ||
| Environmental Ethics | ||
| Political Philosophy | ||
| Governments and Politics of the Middle East and North Africa | ||
| Islam and World Politics | ||
| Chinese Politics | ||
| Politics of East and Southeast Asia | ||
| African Politics | ||
| Political Economy of Development | ||
| German Politics | ||
| Russian Politics | ||
| The European Union: Politics and Political Economy | ||
| Analysis of International Relations | ||
| Global Access to Justice | ||
| International Political Economy | ||
| International Institutions and World Order | ||
| Literature and Politics | ||
| Islam and Politics | ||
| Study Abroad Topics in Political Science: International Relations | ||
| Topics in Political Science (Gender Authoritarian Politics) | ||
| Topics in Political Science (Internat'l Environ Politics) | ||
| Topics in Political Science (Gender Internat'l Relations) | ||
| Topics in Political Science (Latin American Polit Thought) | ||
| Topics in Political Science (Climate Change and Energy) | ||
| Selected Topics in Political Science (Global Access to Justice) | ||
| Selected Topics in Political Science (Transitional Justice World Pol) | ||
| Selected Topics in Political Science (LGBTQ+ World Politics) | ||
| Gender and Politics in Comparative Perspective | ||
| Politics of Gender and Women's Rights in the Middle East | ||
POLI SCI 538 | ||
| Proseminar: Topics in Political Science (Decision Making World Politics) | ||
| Proseminar: Topics in Political Science (Pan African Political Thought) | ||
| Politics and Society: Contemporary Eastern Europe | ||
| Study Abroad Topics in Political Science: Comparative Politics | ||
| Introduction to Public Health | ||
| Foundations in Global Health Practice | ||
| Brazillian Women Writers | ||
| Cultural Psychology | ||
| The Private and Public Sectors in Policymaking | ||
| Women, Gender, and Public Policy | ||
| Topics in Religious Studies - Humanities | ||
| Religion, Global and Public Health | ||
| Topics in Scandinavian Literature | ||
| Sexual Politics in Scandinavia | ||
| Nordic Filmmakers | ||
| Sami Culture, Yesterday and Today | ||
| Contemporary Scandinavia: Politics and History | ||
| Literatures and Cultures of Eastern Europe | ||
| Population Problems | ||
| Environment, Natural Resources, and Society | ||
| Environmental Stewardship and Social Justice | ||
| Social Movements | ||
| Sociology of Developing Societies/Third World | ||
| Sociology of Organizations | ||
| Social Stratification | ||
| Sociology of Economic Institutions | ||
| Sex Trafficking and Sex Trading | ||
| Earth's Water: Natural Science and Human Use | ||
| The Beautiful Game: Cultural Politics of Soccer | ||
| Race and Culture in the Americas | ||
| Survey of Modern Spanish Literature | ||
| Spanish for Business | ||
| Literature of the Twentieth Century | ||
| Contemporary Mayas: A Culture of Nature | ||
| Spanish American Literature | ||
| Topics in Hispanic Culture | ||
| Border and Race Studies in Latin America | ||
| Latin American Literature and Human Rights | ||
| Contemporary World Theatre and Dramatic Literature | ||
| The Theatres of China and Japan | ||