Requirements for the Major (44 credits)

I. Core (20 credits)

Complete all of the following:

course - Comparative Political Systems
course - International Relations
course - International Security
course - International Political Economy

And one course in Human Rights (from the following):

course - Transnational Feminisms
course - Special Topics in Human Rights
course - Refugees and Migrants: The Global Crisis of Immigration
course - International Human Rights
course - Torture: Pain, Body, and Truth
course - Seminar on Human Rights

II. Language Study (4 credits)

Students must complete one course in the target language beyond Drew’s general education requirement. Students starting a language at Drew will therefore require four semesters of language study to fulfill this requirement. Students who place beyond the fourth semester of language instruction in a Drew foreign language will be considered to have completed this requirement, and can complete the major with only 40 credits.

III. Intermediate or Upper-Level (20 credits)

In addition to the required core and language courses, students must take 20 credits (total) in the intermediate (200) and upper level (300) level courses. At least half of these credits (12) must be at the upper level. A minimum of 16 of these intermediate and upper level credits must be taken on campus.

Note

A student can propose to have a maximum of 8 credits from other departments applied to the Major. The proposal must be substantively related to the Major’s focus and be approved by the faculty adviser. Students planning to attend graduate school in Political Science, Public Policy, Public Administration, or a related field and students planning to write an honors thesis or enroll in upper-level research seminars are encouraged to take course - Research Methods in Political Science.

IREL - International Relations Major

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