Area Concentration Course List

 

International Relations


1. Africa

  • ANTH 227 (Witchcraft and Politics)
  • ANTH 235 (Modern Africa)
  • ECON 235 (African Economic Development)
  • FREN 336 (Francophone Africa)
  • GEOG 236 (Third World Development)
  • HIST 290+ (European Imperialism and Colonialism)
  • HIST 291+ (African History I)
  • HIST 292+ (African History II)
  • HIST 299+ (Topics in Non-western History)-when relevant
  • HIST 390+ (Topics in African History)
  • IREL 235 (Modern Africa)
  • POLS 211 (Third World Politics)
  • SOCI 213 (Race in Historical & Comparative Perspective)
  • SOCI 310 (The Sociology of Developing Societies)

Language competency: French at Bucknell or abroad or indigenous African language taken off campus.

2. Asia

  • EAST/ANTH 246 (Japanese Culture and Society)
  • EAST/ANTH 247 (Japanese Film as Anthropology)
  • EAST 248 (International Relations in East Asia)
  • EAST/ANTH 249 (Inside the Japanese Corporations)
  • EAST/ECON 274 (The Greater Chinese Economy)
  • EAST/ECON 278 (Asian Economic Development)
  • EAST/ECON 340 (Comparative Pacific Basin Economies)
  • EAST 234/HIST 294+ (China Since 1800)
  • EAST 255/HIST 296+ (Modern Japanese History)
  • EAST 267/HIST 297+ (The People's Republic of China)
  • EAST 268/HIST 264+ (Intellectual Conflict in Modern China)
  • RELI 200/EAST 251 (Buddhism)
  • RELI 202 (Hinduism)
  • RELI 245/EAST 252 (Religions of China)
  • RELI 246/EAST 253 (Religions of Japan)
  • RELI 248/EAST 250 (Confucianism)

Language competency: Chinese or Japanese at Bucknell or abroad; other languages,
such as Hindi, Thai, or Vietnamese, may be taken off campus.

3. Europe

  • ECON 277 (The French Economy) open only to Bucknell en France students
  • ECON 305 (Comparative Economic Systems)
  • ECON 317* (Economic Integration in Western Europe)
  • ECON 324+ (European Economic History)
  • ECON 326 (History of Economic Thought)
  • ECON 338 (Seminar in International Economics)-when relevant
  • FREN 270 (La France actuelle)
  • FREN 370 (Topics in Civilization)
  • GEOG 214 (Europe in the Age of Globalization)
  • GRMN 270 (The Bourgeois Era: 19th-century Germany)
  • GRMN 272 (Modern German Culture-)-when relevant
  • GRMN 295 (Topics in German Studies)-when relevant
  • GRMN 393* (Advanced Seminar in Selected Cultural Topics)-when relevant
  • GRMN 427 (The Culture of the Weimar Republic)
  • HIST 233+ (European State Systems)
  • HIST 236+ (Nineteenth-century Europe)
  • HIST 239+ (Contemporary Europe 1890-1995)
  • HIST 260+ (Race, Nation-state and International Relations)
  • HIST 290+ (European Imperialism and Colonialism)
  • HIST 323 (U.S. Foreign Relations in the 19th Century)
  • HIST 330+*( European History)-when relevant
  • IREL 218 (International Relations of Europe)
  • MGMT 212 (Business, Government, Society in France)-open only to
    Bucknell en France students
  • POLS 223 (European Politics)
  • POLS 251+ (History of Western Political Thought II: Machiavelli to Bentham)
  • POLS 252+ (History of Western Political Thought III: Burke to Rawls)
  • POLS 284 (International Relations of Europe)
  • POLS 288 (French Foreign Policy Since 1945)-open only to Bucknell en France students
  • POLS 350* (Seminar in Comparative Politics)-when relevant
  • SPAN 264 (Hispanic Topics)-when relevant
  • SPAN 270 (Spanish Civilization)
  • SPAN 295 (Topics in Spanish)-when relevant

Language competency: French, German, Spanish, or Italian at Bucknell or abroad.

4. Latin America and Caribbean

  • ANTH 252 (Peoples and Cultures of the Andean World)
  • ECON 266 (Political Economy of the Caribbean)
  • ECON 276 (Latin American Economic Development)
  • ECON 338* (Seminar in International Economics)-when relevent
  • ENGL 397 (Seminar in Special Topics)-when relevant
  • GEOG 236 (Third World Development)
  • GEOG 309 (Topics in Advanced Economic Geography)
  • HIST 311+*(U.S. History Since 1865: Foreign Relations)
  • IREL 230 (International Relations of the Caribbean)
  • IREL 400 (Latin American Economic Transition)
  • LAMS 297+ (Latin American History)
  • LAMS 365* (Seminar in Latin American Studies)
  • POLS 211 (Third World Politics)
  • POLS 219 (Latin American Politics)
  • POLS 285 (International Relations of the Western Hemisphere)
  • POLS 350* (Seminar in Comparative Politics)-when relevant
  • SOCI 213 (Race in Historical & Comparative Perspective)
  • SOCI 290 (Sociology of Caribbean Society)
  • SOCI 310 (The Sociology of Developing Societies)
  • SPAN 264 (Hispanic Topics)-when relevant
  • SPAN 280 (Spanish American Civilization)

Language competency: Spanish at Bucknell or abroad.

5. Middle East

  • HIST 290+ (European Imperialism and Colonialism)
  • POLS 224+ (Government & Politics of the Middle East)
  • POLS 287+ (United States & the Middle East)
  • POLS 289 (Arab-Israeli Conflict)
  • RELI 201 (Islam)
  • RELI 210 (Judaism)

Language competency: Hebrew or Arabic taken off campus.

6. North America

  • ECON 275 (Canadian-American Economic Relations)
  • ECON 318+ (American Economic History)
  • FREN 335 (Literature & Culture of Quebec)
  • HIST 311+*(U.S. History Since 1865: Foreign Relations)
  • POLS 140 (American Politics)
  • POLS 232 (American Public Policy)
  • POLS 252+ (History of Western Political Thought III: Burke to Rawls)
  • POLS 271 (American Foreign Policy)
  • POLS 272 (United States National Security Policy)

Language competency: any language other than English, taken at Bucknell or abroad.

7. Russia and Eurasia

  • HIST 248+ (Topics in Russian History)
  • POLS 222+ (Russian Politics)
  • RUSS 302 (Twentieth-century Russian Culture and Civilization)

Language competency: Russian taken at Bucknell or abroad.

*These courses satisfy the seminar requirement.
+These courses in each area satisfy the history requirement.