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Nov 21, 2024
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2024-2025 Undergraduate Catalog
International Relations, B.A.
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Political and Global Affairs
615-898-2708
Steven Livingston, program coordinator
pga@mtsu.edu
The International Relations major offers courses to open doors around the world. A foreign language component is required. It is preferable that minors and electives be in foreign languages, humanities, or social science offerings that significantly contribute to an understanding of economic, geographical, historical, and cultural factors in international relations or in areas that provide students with substantive skills related to a professional environment such as business and computer science. Recommended related courses in social science are ANTH 2010 ; ECON 2410 , ECON 4440 , ECON 4470 ; GEOG 3420 , GEOG 3430 , GEOG 4500 ; HIST 3150 , HIST 4330 , HIST 4340 ; SOC 4511 , SOC 4520 . Interdisciplinary minors with a cross-cultural or area studies emphasis are also recommended.
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Degree Requirements
| True Blue Core (TBC) |
41 hours |
| Major Requirements |
37 hours* |
| Foreign Language |
6 hours |
| Minor |
15-18 hours |
| Electives |
18-24 hours |
| TOTAL |
120 hours |
*This program requires courses that can also fulfill requirements of the True Blue Core curriculum. If program requirements are also used to fulfill True Blue Core requirements, the number of elective hours may vary.
True Blue Core (41 hours)
True Blue Core (TBC) requirements (shown in curricular listings below) include courses in the Foundational Skills areas of Written Communication (WC), Information Literacy (Info Lit), Non-Written Communication (NWC), and Quantitative Literacy (Quant Lit). Knowledge Domains include Human Society and Social Relationships (HSSR), Scientific Literacy (Sci Lit), Creativity and Cultural Expression (CCE), and History and Civic Learning (HCL), which include Discovery and Explorations categories. Students must choose at least one course from each Discovery category.
The following courses required by the program meet True Blue Core requirements:
Major Requirements (37 hours)
International Relations (6 hours)
Comparative Government (6 hours)
NOTE:
Substitutions may be made with the advisor’s consent.
Political Science Electives (6 hours)
Six hours from the courses listed above or from
Foreign Language Requirement (6 hours)
- B.A. students must successfully complete 2010 and 2020 or any courses numbered above the 2000 level in a single foreign language.
Curriculum: International Relations, B.A.
Junior
- PS 4240 - American Foreign Policy 3 credit hours
- PS elective in Comparative Government 6 credit hours
- Minor courses 6 credit hours
- FL 2010 and 2020 6 credit hours
- PS elective 3 credit hours
- General electives 6 credit hours
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