With the increasing importance of world issues to the United States, employment opportunities in government, international organizations and business continue to expand. Today there is an urgent need for college graduates with a background in international affairs. To meet this need, the University of Colorado Boulder offers a minor in international affairs, giving students in various programs an interdisciplinary perspective on the world today.
Requirements
Required Courses and Credits
Complete the lower-division, upper-division and capstone requirements below for a total of 19 credits.
- All coursework applied to the minor must be completed with a grade of C- or better (no pass/fail work may be applied).
- The grade point average for all minor degree coursework must equal 2.00 (a grade of C) or higher.
- Students may apply no more than 9 credit hours of transfer work towards the minor.
| Code | Title | Credit Hours |
|---|---|---|
| Lower-Division Requirement | ||
| IAFS 1000 | Global Issues and International Affairs | 4 |
| Upper-Division Electives | ||
| Complete 12 credits of upper-division electives from the IAFS functional areas. Electives must be chosen from at least three of the four IAFS functional areas. Students cannot apply more than two IAFS Functional Area classes from any one discipline/department (e.g., PSCI, ECON). | 12 | |
Development and Culture (Functional Area I) | ||
| Explorations in Anthropology (approved topics only) | ||
| Cross-Cultural Aspects of Socioeconomic Development | ||
| Intercultural Communication | ||
| Economic Development and Policy | ||
| Migration, Immigrant Adaptation, and Development | ||
| Topics in Economic Development, History and Political Economy | ||
| Economic Development | ||
| Economic Growth | ||
| Who Runs the World? Sex, Power, and Gender in Geography | ||
| International Development: Economics, Power, and Place | ||
| Introduction to Global Public Health | ||
| Development Geography | ||
| Health and Medical Geography | ||
| Contemporary Jewish Societies | ||
| Arctic Society and Culture | ||
| Data Analysis for Global Environmental Affairs | ||
| Cities of the Global South | ||
| World Language Policies | ||
| Music and Global Health | ||
| Environmental Conflict and Conflict Resolution | ||
| Global Development | ||
| Critical Thinking in Development | ||
| International Migration and Policy | ||
| Population and Society | ||
| Gender and Development | ||
| Global Human Ecology | ||
| Social Inequalities in Health | ||
| Global Gender Issues | ||
| Sex, Power, Politics: International Perspectives | ||
International Economics, Business, Political Economy (Functional Area II) | ||
| International Economics and Policy | ||
| Environmental Economics | ||
| International Trade | ||
| International Finance | ||
| The New Institutional Economics: Institutions, Contracts and Economic Outcomes | ||
| Environmental Economics | ||
| Special Topics in Finance | ||
| International Business and Management | ||
| International Business and Marketing | ||
| International Financial Management | ||
| Comparative Political Economy | ||
| International Political Economy | ||
Political Geography, International Security, Foreign Policy (Functional Area III) | ||
| The Holocaust: An Anthropological Perspective | ||
| Place, Power, and Contemporary Culture | ||
| Political Geography | ||
| Topics in Environment and Society (approved topics only) | ||
| Geographies of Political Islam | ||
| A Global History of World War II | ||
| History of U.S. Foreign Relations Since 1941 | ||
| U.S. Military History since 1898 | ||
| The Vietnam War in US Politics and Culture | ||
| Islam, Geopolitics and Society: Gender, Identity and Place | ||
| French Connections: Contemporary France and America in Historical Context | ||
| History of Arab-Israeli Conflict | ||
| Security Studies | ||
| War and Morality | ||
| War, Peace, and Strategic Defense | ||
| Current Affairs in International Relations | ||
| American Foreign Policy | ||
| International Behavior | ||
| Modern Warfare: Terrorism, Ideology, Identity | ||
International Institutions, Rights and Norms (Functional Area IV) | ||
| Global Islams | ||
| Human Rights: Historical Perspectives | ||
| Radical Nationalism in Contemporary Northern Europe | ||
| Nonviolent Social Movements | ||
| Music and Violence | ||
| International Conflict Resolution and Peacebuilding | ||
| Nonviolent Civil Resistance: Movements and Strategies | ||
| Philosophy and the International Order | ||
| Global Issues in Leadership | ||
| Revolution and Political Violence | ||
| International Law | ||
| International Organizations | ||
| Politics of Ethnicity and Nationalism | ||
| Global Issues | ||
| Inequality, Democracy, and the Environment | ||
| Sociology of Religion | ||
| Women in Islam | ||
| Topics in Global Gender and Sexuality Studies (SS) | ||
| Gender, Genocide and Mass Trauma | ||
| Gender Politics and Global Activism | ||
| Capstone | ||
| IAFS 3000 | Special Topics in International Affairs | 3 |
| Total Credit Hours | 19 | |