Courses

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 catalog for final and official program information.

Courses designated as more than one subject area (e.g., as both CP and 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 2024 International Studies Courses

Gateway Courses

There are currently no Gateway courses being offered Spring 2024; for graduating seniors needing this requirement, please contact Dr. Van Morgan or Ms. Bruffett

Political Science Courses

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

American Politics (INST-AP)

AS.100.274 Conspiracy in American Politics
AS.140.312 The Politics of Science in America
AS.190.251 Labor and American Politics
AS.190.385 Urban Politics and Policy
AS.190.425 The New Deal and American Politics
AS.190.439 The American State from Above and Below
AS.230.242 Race and Racism
AS.230.250 Knowledge, Evidence, and Democracy
AS.230.365 Public Opinion and Democracy
AS.230.370 Housing and Homelessness in the United States
AS.362.325 Humanities Research Lab: The Military-Industrial Complex in Maryland, DC, and Virginia

Comparative Politics (INST-CP)

AS.070.305 Law After Mass Violence in Latin America
AS.070.358 Anthropology of the Archive: The Cold War Politics of Knowledge Production in Asia
AS.100.330 National Identity in 20th Century China & Japan *only open to Hopkins DC Semester students
AS.190.102 Introduction to Comparative Politics
AS.190.308 Democracy and Dictatorship: Theory and Cases
AS.190.318 Does Israel Have a Future?
AS.190.348 Business, Finance, and Government in East Asia
AS.190.394 Comparative Politics of the Middle East and North Africa
AS.190.427 Political Economy of Japan and Korea
AS.190.470 States and Democracy
AS.192.404 Autocracy, Democracy and Development: Korea, Indonesia, and Myanmar
AS.212.353 La France Contemporaine
AS.215.380 Modern Latin American Culture
AS.215.390 Modern Spanish Culture
AS.230.150 Issues in International Development
AS.230.228 Colonialism in Asia and Its Contested Legacies
AS.230.250 Knowledge, Evidence, and Democracy
AS.230.397 The Political Economy of Drugs and Drug Wars
AS.310.207 Cities and Urban Life in Chinese Film
AS.310.329 Women, Patriarchy, and Feminism in China, South Korea, and Japan
AS.310.331 Islam in Asia
AS.361.100 Introduction to Latin American, Caribbean, and Latinx Studies
AS.363.331 Gender and Sexuality Beyond the Global West: The Politics of Sexual Violence Gender Nation Empire

International Relations (INST-IR)

AS.190.239 Power and Global Politics
AS.190.302 Human Rights and Global Justice *only open to Hopkins DC Semester students
AS.190.470 States and Democracy
AS.190.494 Planetary Geo-Technics, Utopian-Dystopian Futurism & Materialist World Order Theories
AS.191.319 Decolonizing Nuclear Politics
AS.230.150 Issues in International Development
AS.230.250 Knowledge, Evidence, and Democracy
AS.230.335 Medical Humanitarianism
AS.230.337 Global Crises: Past and Present
AS.230.378 Refugees, Human Rights, and Sovereignty
AS.230.397 The Political Economy of Drugs and Drug Wars

Political Theory (INST-PT)

AS.100.445 Revolution, Anti-Slavery, and Empire 1773-1792: British and American Political Thought from Paine, Smith, and the Declaration of Independence to Cugoano, Wollstonecraft, and the Bill of Rights
AS.150.202 Introduction to Islamic Philosophy
AS.150.205 Introduction to the History of Modern Philosophy
AS.150.240 Introduction to Modern Political Philosophy: The Social Contract Tradition
AS.150.469 Immanuel Kant’s Political Philosophy
AS.150.472 Women Philosophers in the German Tradition
AS.190.286 Liberalism, Republicanism, and Democracy in American Political Theory
AS.190.373 Theories of Global Violence
AS.190.474 Philosophy of Law
AS.190.489 Marxisms: Ecological, Feminist, Racial, and Latin American Approaches to Historical Materialism
AS.211.387 Theories of Peace from Kant and MLK
AS.230.213 Social Theory
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.100.442 The Intellectual History of Capitalism, 1900 to present
AS.180.210 Migrating to Opportunity? Economic Evidence from East Asia, the U.S. and the EU
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.190.348 Business, Finance, and Government in East Asia
AS.190.429 Politics of the Market Economy
AS.190.489 Marxisms: Ecological, Feminist, Racial, and Latin American Approaches to Historical Materialism
AS.192.404 Autocracy, Democracy and Development: Korea, Indonesia, and Myanmar
AS.230.150 Issues in International Development
AS.230.337 Global Crises: Past and Present
AS.230.369 Sociology in Economic Life
AS.230.397 The Political Economy of Drugs and Drug Wars

History Courses (INST-GLOBAL)

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

AS.010.342 Projecting Power: Monarchs, Movies, and the Masses
AS.100.117 Introduction to Native North America
AS.100.257 Africans and France, 1900-2024
AS.100.270 Europe since 1945
AS.100.274 Conspiracy in American Politics
AS.100.283 Making and Unmaking Queer Histories, 1800-Present
AS.100.310 The French Revolution
AS.100.314 The Enlightenment
AS.100.330 National Identity in 20th Century China & Japan *only open to Hopkins DC Semester students
AS.100.339 Instability, Intolerance, and Inquisition in Early Modern Spain
AS.100.348 20th-Century China
AS.100.378 Africa and the Atlantic World
AS.100.386 Sports History of the Cold War
AS.100.395 History of Global Development
AS.100.431 Law and Genocide in Modern Europe
AS.100.442 The Intellectual History of Capitalism, 1900 to present
AS.100.445 Revolution, Anti-Slavery, and Empire 1773-1792: British and American Political Thought from Paine, Smith, and the Declaration of Independence to Cugoano, Wollstonecraft, and the Bill of Rights
AS.100.482 Historiography of Modern China
AS.130.216 History of the Jews in Pre-Modern Times, from the Middle Ages to 1789
AS.140.224 Science in the Colonial Age
AS.140.382 Health and Healing in Early-Modern England
AS.150.205 Introduction to the History of Modern Philosophy
AS.190.394 Comparative Politics of the Middle East and North Africa
AS.194.220 The Qur’an: Text and Context
AS.194.230 African-Americans and the Development of Islam in America
AS.211.316 Brazilian Cinema and Topics in Contemporary Brazilian Society
AS.211.333 Representing the Holocaust
AS.211.372 German Cinema: The Divided Screen
AS.211.424 Climate Change Narratives: Human and Non-Human Storytelling
AS.214.362 Italian Journeys: Medieval and Early Modern
AS.215.380 Modern Latin American Culture
AS.215.390 Modern Spanish Culture
AS.230.228 Colonialism in Asia and Its Contested Legacies
AS.230.337 Global Crises: Past and Present
AS.230.378 Refugees, Human Rights, and Sovereignty
AS.230.397 The Political Economy of Drugs and Drug Wars
AS.300.322 Lu Xun and His Times: China’s Long 20th Century and Beyond
AS.310.207 Cities and Urban Life in Chinese Film
AS.310.329 Women, Patriarchy, and Feminism in China, South Korea, and Japan
AS.360.420 Humanities Research Lab: Making Maps of Mexico
AS.361.100 Introduction to Latin American, Caribbean, and Latinx Studies
AS.361.200 Popular Music in Latin America: Dissent, Resistance, Transformation

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

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Spring 2024 International Studies Courses

Gateway Courses

Political Science Courses

American Politics (INST-AP)

Comparative Politics (INST-CP)

International Relations (INST-IR)

Political Theory (INST-PT)

Economics Courses (INST-ECON)

History Courses (INST-GLOBAL)

Suggested Methods Training Courses

Spring 2024 International Studies Courses

Gateway Courses

Political Science Courses

American Politics (INST-AP)

Comparative Politics (INST-CP)

International Relations (INST-IR)

Political Theory (INST-PT)

Economics Courses (INST-ECON)

History Courses (INST-GLOBAL)

Library Research Seminar for International Studies and Social Sciences (AS.192.210)

Suggested Methods Training Courses