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Nov 03, 2024
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2024-2025 Undergraduate Catalog
International Relations, B.A.
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 Return to: College of Liberal Arts
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 ; , , ; , , ; , , ; , . Interdisciplinary minors with a cross-cultural or area studies emphasis are also recommended.
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Academic Map
Following is a printable, suggested four-year schedule of courses:
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)
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
Curriculum: International Relations, B.A.
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