International Studies Minor

The minor is designed to enable students to be better prepared for positions with government, business, or industry with international connections.   It strives to develop foreign language skills; helps to provide an opportunity for students to study abroad; and seeks to promote international understanding.

Requirements:  All Baccalaureate degree programs

Coordinator: Dr. Matt Kenney
Advisors: Dr. Karen Sorenson

I. Required Courses: (3 hours)
INTS 2000 Introduction to International Studies Minor

II. Concentration: Major Area (15 hours)
Select five courses from a minimum of three different disciplines (15 hours)

AAST 3000 Africana Women Across Cultures

COMM 309A International Communication: Broadcast Media
COMM 309B International Communication: Corporate Communication
COMM 309C International Communication: Print and Web Journalism
COMM 309D International Communication: Media Technologies
COMM 309E International Communication: Public Relations

ECON 4410 Evolution of Economic Thought
ECON 4610 International Economics

FIN 3510 International Finance

FREN 3220 Phonetics and Conversation in French
FREN 3320 French Civilization
FREN 3330 Quebec Literature and Culture
FREN 3410 Business French

GEOG 1020 Geography of Europe, the Americas and Australia
GEOG 1030 Geography of Africa, Asia and Oceana
GEOG 3110 Geography of the United States and Canada
GEOG 3750 Geography of the African World

GERM 3220 Phonetics and Conversation in German
GERM 3410 Business German
GERM 3520 German Civilization, Culture, Geography II

HIST 3360 Modern Europe, 1919-Present
HIST 3410 Modern Germany
HIST 3450 Africa Since 1800
HIST 3470 Modern Latin America
HIST 3520 A History of Modern China
HIST 3620 Modern Japan
HIST 4730 U.S. Foreign Relations Since 1890

MGMT 4110 International Management

MKT 3410 International Marketing

MUS 2030 World Music

PHIL 2200 Religion and the World
PHIL 380A Composite World Religions
PHIL 380B Islam as a World View

POLS 2070 International Politics
POLS 3010 Comparative Politics
POLS 3020 American Foreign Policy
POLS 3070 Theories of International Relations
POLS 3110 British Politics and Government
POLS 3120 European politics
POLS 3140 Latin American Politics
POLS 3160 African Politics
POLS 451 Selected Topics

SOC 2500 Cultural Anthropology
SOC 3050 Race Relations and Minority Peoples
SOC 3070 Families Across Cultures
SOC 3750 Population and Society
SOC 3800 Women and Social Change

SPAN 3520 Spanish Civilization (II)
SPAN 3620 Spanish-American Civilization (II)
SPAN 3220 Phonetics and Conversation in Spanish
SPAN 3410 Business Spanish


III. Foreign Experience (3-6 hours)
Three to six semester hours of study abroad are required for the international studies minor. These hours are applied to study taken outside the United States and must receive prior approval as part of the minor by the coordinator of the International Studies Program.

Study Abroad in Africa
POLS 3360 Study Abroad: Africa

Study Abroad in German Speaking Countries
GERM 3040 Study Abroad in German Speaking Countries

Cooperative Center for Study Abroad: CCSA
CCSA courses. Courses are offered in English
speaking countries

Study Abroad in Germany and France
HIST 490A The Holocaust Traveling Seminar

Study Abroad in Greece
GRK 1110 Elementary Modern Greek
GRK 3400 Greek Art and Archaeology

Study Abroad in Quebec, Canada
FREN 3040 Study Abroad in Quebec

Study Abroad in Spain
SPAN 3040 Study Abroad Program in Spanish
SPAN 304B Study Abroad--Spain

Exchange Program with the Université d’Orléans, France
FREN 3050 Semester Study in France

Exchange Program with Mid-Sweden University, Sweden
Semester study at Mid-Sweden University. Courses are taught in English and Swedish.

For more information contact:

Dr. Matthew Kenney
P.O. Box 4748
Political Science
Tel # (931)221-6424
email: kenneym@apsu.edu