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

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

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