46 courses with the subject IREL, each shown exactly as we captured it from the college's catalog, with every element we hold. Where the wording looks broken, that is our reading of the catalog, not the college's text.
Offered Either Fall or Spring; Lecture hours:3This course will explore the restructuring of the political, economic, and cultural dimensions of the global world by a way of the theoretical literature on globalization and a series of case studies. This course cannot be taken for IR major credit.
Offered Both Fall and Spring; Lecture hours:3This multidisciplinary introduction to international relations draws on history, geography, anthropology, economics and politics. It introduces students to global affairs through geographic regions and discusses themes such as intercultural relations, identity, development, sustainability, conflict, power, governance and foreign policy. It applies these frames to a variety of contemporary global issues.
Offered Either Fall or Spring,Topics course; Lecture hours:3; RepeatableSelected topics in international relations.
Offered Spring Semester Only; Lecture hours:3This class examines how technological and political processes combine focusing on the Latin American region.
Offered Either Fall or Spring; Lecture hours:3Health crises are a permanent part of human societies. The COVID19 pandemic is a model of various approaches countries take to health crises, and highlights the successes and failures of various models of health care provision. This course explores global public health problems using the lens of international relations.
Offered Either Fall or Spring; Lecture hours:3Explores the historical and contemporary causes of political, structural, and systematic forms of violence in Latin America. Crosslisted as ANTH 205 and LAMS 205.
Offered Either Fall or Spring; Lecture hours:3Explores how development projects, natural disasters, climate change, violent conflict, and the environment force people to migrate both within and between nations.
Offered Either Fall or Spring; Lecture hours:3Explores Indigenous people’s historical and contemporary struggles for recognition and respect with an emphasis on Indigenous groups in Latin America and global governance. Crosslisted as ANTH 208 and LAMS 208.
Offered Either Fall or Spring; Lecture hours:3Considers political processes from a geographical perspective across a range of scales, in particular analyzing the geographical arguments which shape international political relations. Crosslisted as GEOG 211.
Offered Either Fall or Spring; Lecture hours:3This course provides an introduction to the major contemporary political issues and trends in the region of India/South Asia. Themes will include colonialism, nationalism, economic growth and development, democracy vs. authoritarianism, religious fundamentalism, and ethnic conflict. Crosslisted as POLS 212.
Offered Either Fall or Spring; Lecture hours:3Explores the politics of contemporary nation state borders, issues of territory, sovereignty, mobility, migration, identity, citizenship, statelessness, and focuses on borders at other scales. Crosslisted as GEOG 216.
Offered Either Fall or Spring; Lecture hours:3Explores the link between environmental and human security, and the stakes for both humans and non-humans in climate change, natural disaster, and resource conflicts.
Offered Fall Semester Only; Lecture hours:3This course will examine the foreign policies of European countries, individually and collectively through the European Union, toward each other, regional and global intergovernmental organizations, and other regions/countries. Crosslisted as POLS 284.
Offered Either Fall or Spring; Lecture hours:3This course examines China's rich political history, its dynamic economic and social changes, its lasting political changes, its enduring struggle for modernization, and its evolving relations with the rest of the world. Crosslisted as EAST 269 and POLS 225.
Offered Spring Semester Only; Lecture hours:3This course surveys history, politics, economy, and society of countries in East Asia. It investigates the continuity and change in politics and policies of China, Japan, Korea, and selected countries in Southeast Asia. Crosslisted as EAST 226 and POLS 226.
Offered Occasionally; Lecture hours:3This course introduces students to key themes in Latin American politics and development, including modernization, populism, revolution, structural adjustment, the Pink Tide, and the new right. Potential and emerging alternatives to neoliberalism in the region are also explored.
Offered Fall Semester Only; Lecture hours:3This course explores some of the most significant controversies, conflicts, revolutions, and resolutions, both historical and contemporary, that define the Middle East as a region.
Offered Either Fall or Spring; Lecture hours:3What is the relationship between development and the environment? This course lays out frameworks for understanding the engagement of development with the environment. This includes exploring circuits through which processes (economic, environmental, and social) and goods circulate, including cases from “sustainable” forestry, carbon economies, and the global trade in waste.
Offered Either Fall or Spring; Lecture hours:3This course explores the theme of extractivism in the global economy through contemporary Francophone African literature, cinema and visual media. It examines large-scale resource extraction and its long-term social and environmental consequences, focusing on cultural representations of exploitation, ecological harm and community resistance, while critically exploring tensions between economic development, environmental justice and the future of African societies. Crosslisted as FREN 337.
Offered Either Fall or Spring; Lecture hours:3Explores emerging debates around human vulnerability and conflict, climate change, displacement, development and other forms of security.
Offered Both Fall and Spring; Lecture hours:3Analysis and evaluation of main theories of international relations, including realist, neo-realist, liberal, neo-liberal, Gramscian, Marxist, feminist, and post-modernist approaches. Theories are related to the major dimensions of international relations. Prerequisites: IREL 101 or POLS 170. Preference given to second semester sophomores and junior IREL majors.
Offered Either Fall or Spring; Lecture hours:3A study of environmental and energy economics in the context of global resources and politics. The theme of sustainable development will be linked to the new realities of international relations. Prerequisite: ECON 101 or ECON 103.
Offered Spring Semester Only; Lecture hours:3The nature, historical development, and sources of international law; substantive and procedural international law and its role in international relations. Crosslisted as POLS 278.
Offered Either Fall or Spring; Lecture hours:3This course analyzes the rise of a new global authoritarian state, characterized by economic monopolies, political violence and heightened international conflict. By combining political economy with psychoanalysis from a historical and comparative perspective, students will examine the forces driving modern authoritarianism. Crosslisted as ECON 262.
Offered Either Fall or Spring; Lecture hours:3Students will learn a range of theories and concepts that explain how gender, race, ethnicity, sexuality, class, nationality, religion, and other forms of difference shape and are shaped by international affairs.
Offered Either Fall or Spring; Lecture hours:3This course allows students to explore, experience, and analyze aspects of popular culture in contemporary sub-Saharan Africa. Manifestations of popular culture are considered as markers of modern African identities, embedded in complex and varied socio-cultural, historical and political contexts. Crosslisted as HIST 276.
Offered Either Fall or Spring; Lecture hours:3This course examines gender and sexuality across Africa historically and contemporarily, using an examination of Africanist gender theory along with a critical examination of Western conventional categories and a critical approach to issues of family, generational tensions, sexuality, and power as useful ways for thinking through change in African history. Crosslisted as HIST 277 and WMST 277.
Offered Either Fall or Spring; Lecture hours:3From popular culture: music, film, fashion to digital technologies: cell phones, computers, fit-bits, and GOOGLE-glass to our food: morning coffee, sugar, and spices, we rely on African ideas and resources. Through novels, films, and scholarly articles we examine how International Relations across Africa and within Africa matter in our lives. Crosslisted as CBST 274 and HIST 274.
Offered Either Fall or Spring; Lecture hours:3This course explores the rationales, processes, and institutions of multilateral governance in a globalized world. We examine the U.N., nongovernmental organizations, conflict resolution, economic development, environment, human rights, and international law. Not open to first-year students. Crosslisted as POLS 275.
Offered Either Fall or Spring; Lecture hours:3This course is designed to introduce students to the theories that have been developed to explain foreign policy processes and foreign policy behavior. The course will also examine and discuss the foreign policies of specific international actors. Crosslisted as POLS 276.
Offered Either Fall or Spring; Lecture hours:3This course examines the politics of international economic relations including trade, finance, and development. Crosslisted as POLS 277.
Offered Either Fall or Spring; Lecture hours:3The course deals with historic and contemporary economic problems, starting from colonial times and reaching the present integration into world economy. Crosslisted as ECON 273 and LAMS 273.
Offered Either Fall or Spring; Lecture hours:3This course offers an overview of international relations in East Asia, with focus on foreign policies of major states in the region as well as their political, economic, and social interactions. Crosslisted as EAST 248 and POLS 283.
Offered Fall Semester Only; Lecture hours:3This course explores the role nonstate actors (such as nongovernmental organizations, multinational corporations, violent nonstate actors, and individuals) can and do play in various substantive areas of international relations. Crosslisted as POLS 286.
Offered Either Fall or Spring; Lecture hours:3Survey of Africa from Ancient economic, social, cultural, economic, and political developments to the Early Modern Era and the rise of Atlantic era trade. This course focuses on social, cultural, political, and economic changes generated by populations across the continent. Crosslisted as CBST 291 and HIST 291.
Offered Either Fall or Spring; Lecture hours:3Survey of African history from the 15th century to the contemporary period. We explore six major themes in African History: The Indian Ocean World, Making of the Atlantic World, Colonialism in Africa, Nationalism and Independence Movements, Post-Colonialism and Issues in the Making of Contemporary Africa. Crosslisted as CBST 292 and HIST 292.
Offered Either Fall or Spring,Topics course; Lecture hours:3; RepeatableThis course considers the shift in international politics from an ethic based upon state security to one focused on human security. Prerequisite: permission of the instructor.
Offered Both Fall and Spring; Lecture hours:3This course is designed to provide IREL majors with an opportunity to study global change. The course addresses contemporary issues in globalization. Specific topics may vary. Normally taken in fall of junior or senior year. Prerequisites: IREL majors. Students should preferably have ECON 101 or ECON 127 and IREL 250, or permission of the instructor.
Offered Occasionally; Lecture hours:3This course explores the geographies and politics of nationalism, the ways in which nature is nationalized, the construction of nature in environmental contestations and reactions to nationalism, and the intersection of nationalism with other social constructions. Crosslisted as ENST 356.
Offered Fall Semester Only,Topics course; Lecture hours:Varies; RepeatableOpen to international relations majors who wish to pursue individual programs of reading, research, and writing under the supervision of a professor, usually for completion of the honors thesis. Prerequisites: permission of the supervising IREL professor and permission of the instructor.
Topics course,Offered Spring Semester Only; Lecture hours:Varies; RepeatableOpen to international relations majors who wish to pursue individual programs of reading, research, and writing under the supervision of a professor, usually for the completion of the honors thesis. Prerequisites: permission of the supervising IREL professor and permission of the instructor.
Offered Both Fall and Spring,Topics course; Lecture hours:3; RepeatableSelected topics of international relations at an advanced level for senior seminar credit. Prerequisites: second semester junior or senior status and permission of the instructor.
Offered Fall Semester Only; Lecture hours:3The seminar will study human rights, primarily from an international perspective, including self-determination, cultural rights, ethnic and racial rights, women's rights, religious rights, and lesbian and gay rights. Open to seniors majoring in IREL or POLS, others by permission of the instructor. Crosslisted as POLS 389.
Offered Spring Semester Only; Lecture hours:3This seminar examines social movements in International Relations in multiple contexts across the globe, through a variety of scales.
Offered Either Fall or Spring; Lecture hours:3This course covers the very real and challenging topic of human trafficking in Africa and other parts of the world. Human Trafficking illuminates the interconnectedness of multiple systems of economics, politics, and culture through the transfer and control of labor. Crosslisted as HIST 374.
Offered Either Fall or Spring; Lecture hours:3Through tracing the evolution of U.S.-China relations from the 18th century to the 21st century, this course discusses major issues and challenges between the two countries today. Future trends of the bilateral relationship will also be explored. Prerequisite: POLS 170. Preference given to EAST, IREL, and POLS seniors. Crosslisted as EAST 382 and POLS 382.
Source: Bucknell University's catalog, linked per course · table learning_unit · CourseShelf publish 59
