GPIS Concentration:Strategic Leadership
- Students selecting this field must take (721/821) as their required field course.
- MA students must select TWO more courses within the field.
- PhD. students must choose FOUR courses for primary or TWO courses for secondary concentration.
- Students may take courses other than those listed below only in consultation with the field coordinator.
- Students could enrich their classroom experience through Independent Study/Directed Research projects with the agreement and under the supervision of the field coordinator.
IS 701/801 Global Change and American Foreign Policy
This research seminar examines the transformation of the U.S. role in the world in the global context of the 20th Century and since September 2001.
IS 702/802 Approaches to Collective Security Policy
This seminar explores the origins of the idea of collective security, examines the attempts to organize international security collectively and assesses possibilities and opportunities for collective security arrangements after the Cold War.
IS 708/808 Asian Politics
This course is a graduate seminar on the domestic politics and international relations of (East) Asia focusing on both Northeast and Southeast Asia. The first half of the course examines the domestic politics of Asian countries, with a focus on mainland China, Taiwan, Japan, and South Korea. The topics include political development, state-society relations, and political economy. The second half of the course turns to foreign relations in the region, exploring various topics and different levels of analysis to understanding the regional dynamics.
IS 713/813 Global Political Economy
Analysis of the forces shaping national and transnational economic institutions and their policies on a range of contemporary issues, including North-South relations.
IS 720/820 Research Seminar in Global Security
PhD Required Common Core Course
MA Course Elective
The research seminar investigates the profound changes in international security brought about by the end of the Cold War with a specific focus on the role of nuclear weapons. The primary purpose of the seminar is to promote research into the global aspects of the nuclear issue and to enhance understanding of the relationship between nuclear control and the New World Order.
IS 721/821* New World Order
The end of the Cold War has ushered tremendous political changes and an equally broad intellectual debate on the meaning of these changes. What will be the basic rules of international politics? Will the future resemble the past or follow new rules of its own? What countries, what groups, and what issues will dominate the future of world politics?
IS 734/834 U.S. Grand Strategy
This course offers a thorough exploration into the subject of U.S. grand strategy. It confronts debates over the definition and usefulness of grand strategy, examines variations across the history of U.S. grand strategy and among current visions for U.S. grand strategy, and analyzes subjects of core concern to U.S. grand strategy.
IS 741/841 Globalization and Social Change in the World System
PhD Required Common Core Course
MA Course Elective
This course is intended to first identify the distinguishing characteristics of globalization. It then attempts to examine its implications on a number of critical issues, including the future of democracy, income distribution and ethnic, class, and gender relations.
COMM 600 Intercultural Communication: History, Theory and Application
MA Only Course Elective
Students begin with an overview and then cover (1) past intercultural communication research, (2) the philosophical underpinning and ethics behind intercultural communication research, and (3) current developments in intercultural communication theory. They then address the application of intercultural communication theory in specific intercultural communication contexts (e.g. business, education, health and international travel).
*Core Seminar
