INTA - International Affairs (INTA)
INTA 302 Principles of International Affairs
Credits 3.
3 Lecture Hours.
Overview of the study of international relations; exploration of theories of international politics, war, nuclear weapons, terrorism, trade, finance, globalization, international law and human rights, and the environment. Prerequisites: International Affairs major; junior or senior classification.
INTA 303 Principles of the Global Economy
Credits 3.
3 Lecture Hours.
Instruction in three fundamental aspects of the global economic environment including economics of trade and international trade policies, international finance issues, introduction of international economic issues in developing countries; exposure to analytical tools and concepts in international economics and development economics. Prerequisites: International Affairs major; ECON 202 and ECON 203, or approval of instructor; junior or senior classification.
INTA 415 American Foreign Policy
Credits 3.
3 Lecture Hours.
Examination of political, economic, cultural, and military dimensions of the United States’ interactions with the world since the 19th century; focus on how interests of soldiers, business people, missionaries, civilians within the United States and in combat zones impact policy. Prerequisites: International Affairs major; junior or senior classification.
INTA 418 Economic Statecraft
Credits 3.
3 Lecture Hours.
Introduction to emerging field of economic statecraft; use of economic tools of national power; overview of important seminal works on economic statecraft; instruction in theoretical and empirical aspects of economic statecraft. Prerequisites: International Affairs major, junior or senior classification, and ECON 202, ECON 203, INTA 301, and INTA 303 or approval of instructor.
INTA 443 International Organizations
Credits 3.
3 Lecture Hours.
Theoretical and empirical aspects of the role, potentials, and limitations of major International Organizations (IO) in world politics; study of norms and rules that govern international relations and institutions where those rules are formulated and implemented; survey of IOs in areas of peace operations, human rights, environment and international trade. Prerequisites: International Affairs major; junior or senior classification.
INTA 445 Women and International Affairs
Credits 3.
3 Lecture Hours.
Overview of important dimensions of women and international affairs; stratification of human society by sex, women and international political economy, women and national/international security, women and international human rights; examination of international efforts to improve women’s situation worldwide and other international policy initiatives. Prerequisites: International Affairs major; junior or senior classification.
INTA 452 Intelligence and National Security
Credits 3.
3 Lecture Hours.
Examination of historical and contemporary Intelligence capabilities as a part of the National Security environment, study of teamwork used by multiple organizations to inform world leaders; understanding of the major intelligence disciplines; instruction in how the intelligence cycle collects, analyses, and informs decisions related to National Security matters. Prerequisites: International Affairs major; junior or senior classification.
INTA 455 European Politics
Credits 3.
3 Lecture Hours.
Historical examination of the evolution of the European Union and its contemporary politics; overview of formation of the European Union and its integration processes, contemporary European Politics in Western and Eastern Europe and security developments in the European Union. Prerequisites: International Affairs major; junior or senior classification.
INTA 473 Modern Chinese Political History
Credits 3.
3 Lecture Hours.
Exposure to the origins and development of the contemporary political system of China; instruction in history and foundational experiences of the Chinese Communist Party, its revolutionary and reformist leaderships, and trace the origins of contemporary China’s political institutions. Prerequisites: International Affairs major; INTS 205 and INTA 301, or approval of the instructor.
INTA 476 International Politics of the Middle East
Credits 3.
3 Lecture Hours.
Examination of interactions among states of the region, the region’s non-state actors and outside powers in the post-World War II period; topics include power distributions within the region and globally, effects of transnational ideological and identity movements, domestic political institutions in the region’s states, regional economic systems, outside power policies in the region, war and peace decisions, alliance and alignment patterns, and regional modes of statecraft. Prerequisites: International Affairs major; junior or senior classification.
INTA 486 Russia and the Former Soviet Union
Credits 3.
3 Lecture Hours.
Investigation of how history, institutions, and political culture in Russia influences choices that elites and ordinary people make about politics; overview of Tsarist Russian imperialism, Soviet experiment in modernization and multinational governance, collapse of Soviet Union and creation of 15 independent states; examination of processes of political change and governance in post-communist Russia, and factors that influence processes. Prerequisites: International Affairs major; junior or senior classification.
INTA 494 Latin American Politics
Credits 3.
3 Lecture Hours.
Examination of political and economic change in twentieth and twenty-first century Latin America with focus on the rise of industrialization and populism, the establishment of military regimes and return to democracy, economic liberation and decentralization; exploration of theoretical underpinnings of the causes and consequences of populism, industrialization, authoritarianism, democratization, neoliberalism and popular representation. Prerequisites: International Affairs major; junior or senior classification.