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University Requirements

• ·  A total of 120 credit hours
  
• ·  6 credit hours of college writing
  
• ·  3 credit hours of college mathematics or the equivalent by examination
  General Education Requirements
  · Atotaloftencourses,consistingofonefoundationcourseand one second-level course in an approved sequence from each of the five curricular areas
  · No more than two courses may be taken in the same discipline
  Major Requirements
  

· 64 credit hours plus 3–20 credit hours in foreign language course work, with grades of C or better
Up to 18 of these credit hours may also count toward fulfillment of General Education requirements.
Students may, where appropriate and with SIS approval, select special topics courses to fulfill requirements. Students may apply up to 3 credit hours toward the major from an approved internship or cooperative education field experience. Study abroad course credits may be used toward the major with the approval of SIS.
Foundation Courses (28 credit hours)
· SIS-101 Leadership Gateway (1)
· ECON-100 Macroeconomics 4:1 (3) · ECON-200 Microeconomics 4:2 (3)
· One course in U.S. politics from the following: GOVT-110 Politics in the United States 4:1 (3–4) GOVT-210 Political Power and American Public
Policy 4:2 (3)
GOVT-220 The American Constitution (3) 4:2
· SIS-105 World Politics 3:1 (3)
· SIS-140 Cross-Cultural Communication 3:1 (3)

238 School of International Service

• ·  Two courses focusing on Western traditions (6 credit hours) from the following:
  ANTH-235 Early America: The Buried Past 2:2 (3) ARTH-205 Art of the Renaissance 2:2 (3)
  COMM-270 How the News Media Shape History 2:2 (3) GOVT-105 Individual Freedom vs. Authority 2:1 (3) GOVT-303 Ancient Political Thought (3)
  GOVT-305 Modern Political Thought (3)
  HIST-100 Historians and the Living Past 2:1 (3) HIST-110 Renaissance and Revolutions: Europe,
  1400–1815 2:1 (3)
  HIST-115 Work and Community 2:1 (3)
  HIST-202 The Ancient World: Greece (3)
  HIST-203 The Ancient World: Rome (3)
  HIST-204 Medieval Europe (3)
  HIST-205 American Encounters: 1492–1865 2:2 (3) HIST-215 Social Forces that Shaped America 2:2 (3) HIST-235 The West in Crisis: 1900–1945 2:2 (3) HIST-245 Modern Jewish Civilization (3)
  JLS-110 Western Legal Traditions 2:1 (3)
  JLS-225 American Legal Culture 2:2 (3)
  JWST-205 Ancient and Medieval Jewish
  Civilization 2:2 (3)
  JWST-210 Voices of Modern Jewish Literature 2:2 (3) LIT-125 Great Books That Shaped the Western World 2:1 (3) LIT-235 African American Literature 2:2 (3)
  LIT-240 Asian American Literature 2:2 (3)
  LIT-265 Literature and Society in Victorian England 2:2 (3) LFS-230 The Modernist Explosion: Culture and Ideology
  in Europe 2:2 (3)
  PHIL-105 Western Philosophy 2:1 (3)
  PHIL-220 Moral Philosophy 2:2 (3)
  PHIL-221 Philosophy, Politics, and Society (3)
  PHIL-235 Theories of Democracy and Human Rights 2:2 (3) PHIL-300 Ancient and Medieval Philosophy (3) PHIL-301 Modern Philosophy from Bacon to Hegel (3) PHIL-302 Nineteenth Century Philosophy (3)
  PHIL-303 Twentieth Century Philosophy (3)
  PHYS-230 Changing Views of the Universe 2:2 (3) RELG-105 The Religious Heritage of the West 2:1 (3) RELG-220 Religious Thought 2:2 (3)
  SOCY-215 The Rise of Critical Social Thought 2:2 (3) WGST-150 Women’s Voices through Time 2:1 (3)
  
• ·  Two courses in non-Western area studies (6 credit hours), with one course from each of two different areas. See also the list of approved courses in the SIS Undergraduate Advising Office.