Functional Area
Below is our permanent list of functional area classes. Not all classes are offered each semester. For a list of classes offered in each semester, see our IAFS semester course lists. For full major requirements, see our major requirements page.
ANTH 4020 Explorations in Anthropology (approved topics only)
ANTH 4500 Cross-cultural Aspects of Socioeconomic Development
COMM 3410 Intercultural Communication
ECON 3784 Economic Development & Policy
ECON/GEOG 4292 Migration, Immigrant Adaptation and Development
ECON 4774 Topics in Economic Development, History and Political Economy
ECON 4784 Economic Development
ECON 4794 Economic Growth
GEOG/WGST 3672 Who Runs the World? Sex, Power, and Gender in Geography
GEOG 3682 International Development: Economics, Power, and Place
GEOG 3692 Introduction to Global Public Health
GEOG 4632 Development Geography
GEOG 4852 Health and Medical Geography
IAFS/JWST 3600 Contemporary Jewish Studies
IAFS/SCAN 3631 Arctic Society and Culture
IAFS/ENVS 3640 Data Analysis for Global Environmental Affairs
IAFS 3670/GEOG 3622 Cities of the Global South
LING 3545 World Language Policies
MDST 3201 Media, Culture and Globalization (Open to )
MUEL 3862 Music and Global Health
PACS 3860 Environmental Conflict and Conflict Resolution
PSCI 4012 Global Development
PSCI 4283 International Migration and Policy
PSCI 4732 Critical Thinking in Development
SOCY 3002 Population and Society
SOCY/WGST 3012 Gender and Development
SOCY 4007 Global Human Ecology
SOCY 4052 Social Inequalities of Health
WGST 3500 Global Gender Issues
WGST 4300 Sex, Power & Politics: International Perspectives
ECON 3403 International Economics and Policy
ECON 3545 Environmental Economics
ECON 4413 International Trade
ECON 4423 International Finance
ECON 4504 New Institutional Economics
ECON 4545 Environmental Economics
FNCE 4060 Special Topics: London Summer in International Finance
INBU 3300 International Business & Management
INBU 3450 International Business & Marketing
INBU 4200 International Financial Management
PSCI 3092 Comparative Political Economy
PSCI 3213 International Political Economy
ANTH/JWST 4580 The Holocaust: An Anthological Perspective
GEOG 3742 Place, Power, and Contemporary Culture
GEOG 4712 Political Geography
GEOG 4742 Topics in Peoples and Environments (approved topics only)
GEOG 4762 Geographies of Political Islam
HIST 4050 A Global History of World War II
HIST 4126 US Foreign Relations since 1941
HIST 4146 US Military History since 1898
HIST 4166 The War in Vietnam in Politics and Culture
IAFS 3010 Islam, Geopolitics and Society: Gender, Identity, and Place
IAFS 3500/HIST 4190 French Connections (Bordeaux Global Seminar)
IAFS/JWST 3650 History of the Arab-ÃÛÌÇÖ±²¥i Conflict
PACS 3800 Security Studies
PHIL 3190 War & Morality
PSCI 3123 War, Peace and Strategic Defense
PSCI 3143 Current Affairs in International Relations
PSCI 3163 American Foreign Policy
PSCI 3193 International Behavior
PSCI 4243 Modern Warfare: Terrorism, Ideology, Identity
ANTH 4525 Global Islams
HIST 4820 Human Rights: Historical Perspectives
IAFS 3630/SCAN 3301 Radical Nationalism in Contemporary Northern Europe
INVS 4402 Nonviolent Social Movements
JRNL 4411 International Media and Global Crises (Open to IMC students only)
MUEL 3882 Music and Violence
PACS 3850 International Conflict Resolution and Peacebuilding
PACS 3870 Nonviolent Civil Resistance: Movements and Strategies
PHIL 3260 Philosophy & International Order
PRLC 3810 Global Issues in Leadership
PSCI 3062 Revolution and Political Violence
PSCI 3183 International Law
PSCI 4173 International Organizations
PSCI 4252 Politics of Ethnicity and Nationalism
PSCI 4783 Global Issues
SOCY/ENVS 4027 Inequality, Democracy, Environment
SOCY 4121 Sociology of Religion
WGST 3220 Women in Islam
WGST 3712 Topics in Global Gender/Sexuality Studies (approved sections only)
WGST 4010/SOCY 4000 Gender, Genocide, and Mass Trauma
WGST 4500/PSCI 4391 Gender Politics and Global Activism