International Studies Minor

Coordinator: Casey Aldrich, Ed.D.

ISM Steering Committee: G. Parati (Chair), L. V. Adams, M. B. Burkins, C. Cortez Minchillo, S. E. Freidberg, V. K. Holt, R. A. Virginia, W. C. Wohlforth.

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The International Studies Minor is open to students from all majors seeking to better understand the cross-cutting global forces that shape the vital issues of our day.

The Minor is coordinated by the John Sloan Dickey Center for International Understanding and draws upon faculty expertise from across the College. Students graduating with a Minor in International Studies will be able to demonstrate that they are cognizant of the interplay between local and global-level processes, human and environmental interactions, and place, identity, and culture. They will further be able to apply this understanding to the complex global issues of our time in order to better understand their causes and consequences, and to assume the mantle of responsibility that comes with global citizenship. Application for the Minor should ideally be made by the student’s sixth term of study. No course in the minor may be taken under the Non-Recording Option. For the most up-to-date information on course offerings, please visit the Dickey Center’s website: https://dickey.dartmouth.edu/student-opportunities/international-studies-minor

Prerequisite: None.

Requirements: A total of six (6) courses, to include the following:

Six (6) thematic courses (one from each theme):

International Development; International Security; Global Health; Global Environment; World Language & Culture; Great Issues Seminar.

Thematic Courses / Pre-Approved Thematic Courses for 2024-25:

International Development: INTS 16 / GEOG 8.01 (Intro to International Development); ECON 24 (Development Economics); GEOG 22.02 (Global Poverty and Care); GEOG 33.01 (Geopolitics and Third World Development); GOVT 44 (Power and Development in the Global Economy); ECON 29 (International Finance and open-economy macroeconomics); ECON 39 (International Trade); ECON 64 (Topics in Developing Economics); SOCY 22 (The Sociology of International Development); ENVS55 (Ecological Economics)

International Security: INTS 15 (Violence & Security); GOVT 4 (Politics of the World); GOVT 5 (International Politics); GOVT 53 (International Security); ANTH 28 / AAAS 88.08 (Ethnography of Violence); GOVT 50.02 (Civil War, Insurgency, and the International Response); GOVT 50.04 (War and Peace in the Modern Age); HIST 53 (World War II: Ideology, experience, legacy); HIST 62 (The First World War)

Global Health: INTS 18 / GEOG 21.01 (Global Health & Society); ANTH 6 (Intro to Biological Anthropology); ANTH 55 (Anthropology of Global Health); ANTH 26 (Gender & Global Health); ENGS 16 (Biomedical Engineering for Global Health); ENVS 28 (Global Environmental Health); HIST 8 (Body Parts, Body Wholes: An introduction to the comparative history of medicine)

Global Environment: ENVS 2 (Introduction to Environmental Studies); ENVS 3 (Environment & Society); ENVS 62 (Science Policy & Diplomacy); ENVS 30 (Global Environmental Science); ENVS 15 (Environmental Issues of the Earth's Cold Regions); ENVS 60 (Environmental Law); ENVS 65 (Global Environmental Politics); EARS 18 Environmental Earth Sciences; GEOG 15.01 (Global Climate Change); GEOG 16.01 (Climate for Human Security); EARS 6 (Environmental Change)

World Languages and Culture: One advanced foreign language or literature course (above 1, 2, 3 introductory sequence); INTS17.09 / COLT 49.06 (Multilingualism); SPEE 27 (Intercultural Communication); ANTH 3 (lntro to Cultural Anthropology); ANTH 9 (Language and Culture); COLT 1 (Read the World); WGSS 3 (Global Race x Global Migration); WGSS 41.06 (Transnational Feminisms)

Great Issues Seminar: INTS80.04 / GOVT85.50 (Diplomacy in a Complex World: Meeting Challenges, Creating Opportunity, and Pushing for Peace) - Note: if a Great Issues Seminar is not available for your D-plan, please select a second course from one of the other five Thematic Course categories.

*OLD International Studies Minor (ISM) Requirements (Optional for 24s and 25s):

Requirements: A total of six (6) courses, to include the following:

Four (4) ‘core’ multidisciplinary courses:

•  INTS 15: Violence and Security

•  INTS 16: Introduction to International Development (Cross-Listed as: GEOG 08.01)

•  INTS 17: Cultures, Places, and Identities

•  INTS 17.09/COLT 49.06 - Multilingualism and its Others

•  INTS 17.10/COLT 57.09 - How to Be a Fascist

•  INTS 17.16/WGSS 66.01/COLT 67.07 - Times of Crisis

•  INTS 18: Global Health and Society (Cross-Listed as: GEOG 21.01)

•  One (1) foreign language and literature course beyond 1, 2, 3 introductory sequence and excluding literature courses taught in English. If a student has been granted a language requirement waiver, is exempted from the college's foreign language requirement, or is pursuing a major or minor in a foreign language at Dartmouth, a second general elective course can be used to fulfill this requirement at the Steering Committee's discretion.

• One (1) elective course selected from a list of courses approved by the Steering Committee.