Courses | International Studies | Johns Hopkins University

If you would like to see our current course schedule, please visit the Course Schedule page, or visit the department’s listing on the Public Course Search website.

Please consult the online academic catalogue for final and official program information.

Courses designated as more than one subject area (e.g., as both INST-CP and INST-IR) cannot be double-counted to fulfill both requirements. Please consult the POS tag on the course description in SIS, as well as the list below, for course designations.

Note: This course list is subject to change without notice.

Spring 2025 International Studies Courses

Gateway Courses (INST-GATEWY)

AS.192.150 States, Regimes & Contentious Politics

Political Science Courses

Six semester courses (18 credits) in political science are required: One Gateway course (INST-GATEWY), one American politics (INST-AP) course, two comparative politics (INST-CP) courses, one international relations (INST-IR) course, and one political theory (INST-PT) course.

American Politics (INST-AP)

AS.190.101 Introduction to American Politics
AS.190.304 Latinos and the American Political Landscape
AS.190.322 Future of American Democracy
AS.190.345 Public Opinion
AS.190.378 The U.S. Supreme Court and Social Movements
AS.191.302 The American Right in Comparative Perspective
AS.230.244 Race and Ethnicity in American Society
AS.230.370 Housing and Homelessness in the United States

Comparative Politics (INST-CP)

AS.070.267 Culture, Religion and Politics in Iran
AS.070.336 Ethnographic Perspectives on Brazil
AS.190.318 Does Israel Have a Future?
AS.190.355 Comparative Racial Politics
AS.190.377 Rastafari in Baltimore and the Caribbean: Transnational Community Development in the Black World
AS.191.302 The American Right in Comparative Perspective
AS.192.150 States, Regimes & Contentious Politics
AS.192.404 Autocracy, Democracy and Development: Korea, Indonesia and Myanmar
AS.196.326 How to Beat Autocrats: Lessons from the Front Lines in the Battles to Defend Democracies
AS.211.231 Planet Amazonia: Culture, History, and the Environment
AS.212.353 La France Contemporaine
AS.215.111 Modern Spanish Culture
AS.215.112 Modern Latin American Culture
AS.230.150 Issues in International Development
AS.230.372 Race, Class, and Decolonization Struggles
AS.310.327 Women in China from Antiquity to MeToo
AS.310.329 Women, Patriarchy, and Feminism in China, South Korea, and Japan
AS.310.331 Islam in Asia
AS.310.333 Engaging Allies and Adversaries in East Asia: The Role of Multitrack Diplomacy
AS.361.100 Introduction to Latin American, Caribbean, and Latinx Studies

International Relations (INST-IR)

AS.190.249 Fictional World Politics: International Relations Through Fiction
AS.190.305 Human Rights as a Practice, Weapon, and Symbol
AS.190.423 Planetary Geopolitics
AS.190.451 Geopolitics
AS.190.457 Sovereignty, the State, and War in International Politics
AS.190.459 Money and Sovereignty
AS.191.311 Politics and the Secular Apocalypse
AS.192.150 States, Regimes & Contentious Politics
AS.192.335 Diplomats, Experts, and Activists in International Politics
AS.196.326 How to Beat Autocrats: Lessons from the Front Lines in the Battles to Defend Democracies
AS.230.150 Issues in International Development
AS.230.335 Medical Humanitarianism
AS.230.378 Refugees, Human Rights, and Sovereignty
AS.230.387 Global Migration and Refugees: Applied Research and Practice Seminar *Hopkins Semester in DC students ONLY
AS.230.440 Port Cities and Historical Capitalism in Maritime Asia
AS.310.333 Engaging Allies and Adversaries in East Asia: The Role of Multitrack Diplomacy

Political Theory (INST-PT)

AS.150.205 Introduction to the History of Modern Philosophy
AS.150.240 Introduction to Political Philosophy
AS.190.180 Introduction to Political Theory
AS.190.317 Marxism and Revolution
AS.190.451 Geopolitics
AS.191.311 Politics and the Secular Apocalypse
AS.191.356 Beyond Good & Evil: Spinoza’s Compositional Ethics
AS.230.213 Social Theory
AS.230.330 Space, Society, and Social Change
AS.230.369 Sociology in Economic Life
AS.300.102 Great Minds

Economics Courses (INST-ECON)

Four semester courses (12 credits) in economics are required: two “Elements” courses (180.101 Elements of Macroeconomics & 180.102 Elements of Microeconomics), one course of the student’s choosing taken in the Economics Department at JHU (e.g., AS.180.xxx), and one approved international economics course chosen from the INST-ECON course selection.

AS.180.210 Migrating to Opportunity? Economic Evidence from East Asia, the U.S. and the E.U
AS.180.217 Game Theory in Social Sciences
AS.180.233 Economics of Transition and Institutional Change
AS.180.241 International Trade
AS.180.242 International Monetary Economics
AS.180.246 Environmental Economics
AS.180.332 Debt Crises and Financial Crises
AS.180.355 Economics of Poverty/Inequality
AS.180.361 Rich Countries, Poor Countries
AS.180.389 Social Policy Implications of Behavioral Economics
AS.190.231 Politics of Income Inequality
AS.190.429 Politics of the Market Economy
AS.190.459 Money and Sovereignty
AS.192.404 Autocracy, Democracy and Development: Korea, Indonesia and Myanmar
AS.230.150 Issues in International Development
AS.230.369 Sociology in Economic Life

History Courses (INST-GLOBAL)

Five semester courses (15 credits) in history must be taken from the INST-GLOBAL course selection.

AS.070.267 Culture, Religion and Politics in Iran
AS.070.309 Migration and Empire/Imperialism *Hopkins Semester in DC students ONLY
AS.070.353 Inter Asia, Cold War, and Partition
AS.100.103 Early Modern Europe & the Wider World
AS.100.129 Introduction to Modern Jewish History
AS.100.170 Chinese Cultural Revolution
AS.100.203 The American Revolution in History and Memory
AS.100.220 “Bad Feminism”: Exclusion and Essentialism
AS.100.270 Europe Since 1945
AS.100.283 Making Queer Histories: Identity, Representation, Politics, and Contexts, 1800-present
AS.100.332 Early Asian Latin America
AS.100.348 20th-Century China
AS.100.386 Sports History of the Cold War
AS.100.413 London 1580-1830: The History of Britain’s Capital City
AS.100.482 Historiography of Modern China
AS.130.216 History of Jews in Pre-Modern Times, from the Middle Ages to 1789
AS.196.326 How to Beat Autocrats: Lessons from the Front Lines in the Battles to Defend Democracies
AS.211.231 Planet Amazonia: Culture, History, and the Environment
AS.211.372 German Cinema: The Divided Screen
AS.213.325 Revolution, Power and Poetic Justice: Kleist’s “Michael Kohlhaas” in Context
AS.215.111 Modern Spanish Culture
AS.215.112 Modern Latin American Culture
AS.230.372 Race, Class, and Decolonization Struggles
AS.230.378 Refugees, Human Rights, and Sovereignty
AS.230.387 Global Migration and Refugees: Applied Research and Practice Seminar *Hopkins Semester in DC students ONLY
AS.230.440 Port Cities and Historical Capitalism in Maritime Asia
AS.300.316 Art and Thought of the Soviet and Post-Soviet Peripheries
AS.310.327 Women in China from Antiquity to MeToo
AS.310.329 Women, Patriarchy, and Feminism in China, South Korea, and Japan
AS.361.100 Introduction to Latin American, Caribbean, and Latinx Studies
AS.363.336 Sexual Politics of the Cold War: An Inter-Asia Approach

This course offers training to undergraduate students in International Studies and related majors on the fundamentals of library research and research or grant proposal writing. The course will introduce students to the major research resources in global studies in the humanities and social sciences, strategies and techniques to conduct effective research, and how to use library research to enhance research and grant proposal writing. This course also aims to help students learn to develop research skills for use in their major coursework and major-related research projects, including field research projects abroad and senior thesis. View the course syllabus. For questions, please contact Mr. Yunshan Ye at [email protected].

Suggested Methods Training Courses

AS.070.419 Logic of Anthropological Inquiry
AS.180.217 Game Theory in Social Sciences
AS.180.334 Econometrics
AS.190.426 Qualitative Methods
AS.230.202 Research Methods for the Social Sciences
AS.360.331 Methods for Policy Research
EN.553.111 Statistical Analysis I
EN.553.112 Statistical Analysis II