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Undergraduate International Affairs Courses

Senior Seminar for Special Honors

IAFF 191 Senior Seminar: Conflict & Development
This course may be used in the following International Affairs group concentrations: Conflict & Security; Global Public Health; International Development Studies; International Politics

IAFF 191 Senior Seminar: Europe
The seminar covers the interaction of international and domestic politics in the European Union.
This course may be used in the following International Affairs group concentrations: Comparative Political, Economic & Social Systems; International Politics; Europe & Eurasia

IAFF 191 Senior Seminar: Middle East
This course may be used in the following International Affairs group concentrations: Conflict and Security; International Politics; Middle East

IAFF 191 Senior Seminar: International Space Policy Seminar
This course will address key space policy issues facing the United States and places them in the larger context of technological advances and a changing international strategic environment. The course will briefly examine the technical, historical and policy foundations for U.S. and international space programs and activities. It will then address current issues facing U.S. space programs, including efforts to reorganize national security space activities and the proliferation of dual-use space capabilities. The course will also address strategic choices facing other nations in space activities, including continued dependence on U.S., European, and Russian space capabilities, developing indigenous space programs, and reliance on commercial space capabilities. Conflicts over dual-use technologies, such as space launch, remote sensing, satellite navigation, and communications, will be examined for their implications for a range of national interests.
This course may be used in the following International Affairs group concentrations: Conflict and Security; International Politics

IAFF 191 Senior Seminar: Political Islam
Understanding the systems of political representation of Muslims in the Middle East, Asia and Africa is an integral part of the study of Islamist politics. This class starts with a discussion of a set of issues pertinent to Islam and politics. It discusses prominent Islamist movements in a historical context, probes the underlying reasons that fomented their emergence and if and how they hold commonalities within different geographical demarcations. The course is intended to help the students to have a comprehensive reading of Islamism and political Islam through employment of variegated theoretical frameworks. It overall tackles with the question of Islam's compatibility with democratic representation and to what extent political Islam contributes to the discourse on global war against terror.
This course may be used in the following International Affairs group concentrations: Comparative Political, Economic, and Social Systems; Conflict and Security; Contemporary Cultures and Societies; International Politics

IAFF 191 Senior Seminar: Security Policy
This course will address classic and contemporary issues in security policy studies, and prepare students to pursue research projects with important implications for current policy concerns. It will cover topics in leadership and choice, crisis and non-crisis circumstances, nuclear dilemmas, conventional and unconventional battlefield contexts, humanitarian intervention activities, and peace operations. It will review basic social science principles, and demonstrate how strong research foundations can help scholars and policy-makers alike think about important security policy issues in fair, balanced, and insightful ways.
This course may be used in the following International Affairs group concentrations: Conflict and Security; International Development Studies; International Politics