International Studies: National Security Minor

All students are required to complete:

• INT 250I - Security, Technology and Threat Assessment, 3 credit hours

All students are required to complete the following course focused on U.S. homeland security:

• POL 101D - U.S. Government and Politics, 4 credit hours

Plus one of the following Elective Courses:

Choose one of the following courses:

• POL 208(D) - Special Legal Studies, 1-3 credit hours Special Topics: Spyware, Patriot Act and Privacy
• POL 303 - Public Policy and Administration, 3 credit hours
• POL 307 - American Constitutional Law, 3 credit hours
• POL 308D - Civil Rights and Liberties, 3 credit hours
• POL 311I - American Foreign Policy, 3 credit hours

Choose one of the following Research Methods courses:

• POL 240 - Introduction to Political Analysis, 4 credit hours
• SOC 280 - Research Methods, 4 credit hours

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• ECN 379 - Advanced Statistical Methods, 4 credit hours

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• ECN 463 - Research Seminar, 3 credit hours

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• HIS 461 - Historiography, 3 credit hours

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• HIS 491 - Departmental Thesis/project, Credit hours to be arranged

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• INT 491 - Departmental Thesis Project, Credit hours to be arranged

Plus at least one of the following:

• ECN 279 - Elements of Statistics, 4 credit hours

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• PSY 278 - Elements of Statistics, 4 credit hours

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• SOC 281 - Data Analysis Using PASW, 4 credit hours
• ECN 344 - Game Theory, 3 credit hours
• MTH 138 - Biostatistics, 3 credit hours

Military Security: choose 2 of the following including at least one 300-400 level course

• PHY 103 - Frontiers of Physics, 3 credit hours
• PHL 272I - International Ethics, 3 credit hours
• SOC 270I - Terrorism: Roots and Responses, 3 credit hours
• HIS 239I - History of War, 3 credit hours
• HIS 242 - World War I, 3 credit hours
• HIS 381I - The Arab-Israeli Conflicts, 4 credit hours
• HIS 389I - The Modern Middle East, 4 credit hours
• CAS 315 - Crisis Communication, 3 credit hours

Environmental Security: choose 2 of the following from different disciplines

• BIO 150I - Humans & The Earth: Can We Coexist?, 3 credit hours crosslisted as
• ECN 150I - Humans and The Earth: Can We Coexist?, 3 credit hours

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• GEO 121IL - Physical Geography, 4 credit hours
• GEO 131 - Earth and its Resources, 3 credit hours
• GEO 227 - Environmental Geology, 3 credit hours
• PHY 102 - Topics in Physics, 3 credit hours
• SOC 288 - Environmental Sociology, 3 credit hours
• HPE 274 - Environmental Health, 3 credit hours
• PHL 273I - Environmental Ethics, 3 credit hours
• POL 205 - Environmental Politics, 3 credit hours
• ECN 358 - Environmental Economics, 3 credit hours

Health Security: choose 2 of the following including at least one 200-400 level course

• HPE 170 - Introduction to Public Health, 3 credit hours
• HPE 173I - Global Health, 3 credit hours
• HPE 175 - Epidemiology: Measuring Health and Disease, 3 credit hours
• HPE 275 - Infectious Disease & Epidemics, 3 credit hours
• BIO 341 - Immunology, 4 credit hours
• HPE 373 - Special Topics in Public Health, 2-4 credit hours

Global Context in which Security Threats Develop: choose 2 of the following including at least one 300-400 level course

• SOC 181I - Cultural Anthropology, 3 credit hours
• POL 211I - International Politics, 4 credit hours
• POL 221I - Intro to Comparative Politics, 4 credit hours
• INT 200I - Introduction to International Studies, 3 credit hours
• REL 217I - Religion and Violence, 3 credit hours
• SOC 301D - Social Inequalities, 3 credit hours
• POL 315I - International Organization, 3 credit hours
• POL 321I - Democracy and Democratization, 3 credit hours
• SOC 350I - Modern China, 3 credit hours
• SOC 386I - Global Perspectives, 4 credit hours
• ECN 362I - Economics of Developing Countries, 3 credit hours
• ECN 365I - International Economics, 3 credit hours