International Relations Minor

Goal 1: Students will gain a general knowledge of the field of International Relations, with exposure to the three core fields of the program, global politics, international economics, and modern history.

Outcome 1.1: Students will identify and demonstrate knowledge of contemporary scholarship in the areas they have studied.

Outcome 1.2: Students will identify and demonstrate knowledge of major historical and contemporary events in world affairs.

Goal 2: Students will be able to read and critically assess academic literature, orally articulate ideas, conduct research, and analyze data, appropriate to the undergraduate level.

Outcome 2.1: Students will apply relevant theoretical concepts to assess real world issues.

Outcome 2.2: Students will communicate an argument verbally or in writing in response to real world issues by analyzing or synthesizing relevant theories and concepts and/or analyzing and evaluating appropriate evidence.

Outcome 2.3: Students will ask their own research question and conduct well-organized, empirically-oriented, written analysis of it by identifying, analyzing and synthesizing relevant theories and concepts, and collecting, analyzing and evaluating appropriate evidence.

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In completing these 4 upper division courses, students must take at least one approved in each of the contributing departments: 1 ECN, 1 HIS, and 1 POL class.