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19 courses with the subject IA, 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.

IA 200Globalization and Its Critics

This interdisciplinary course introduces students to the scholarly literature on the origins, developments, and current realities of glo

Subject: IA
Type: course
Edition: 2025-2026
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IA 210Geospatial Analysis of Global Environmental Issues

This course introduces students to the use of geographic information science (GIS) techniques by applying these t

Subject: IA
Type: course
Edition: 2025-2026
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IA 230Global Perspectives on Gender and Equality

This interdisciplinary course tackles fundamental questions about the gendered nature of different societies and political systems around the globe. It

Subject: IA
Type: course
Edition: 2025-2026
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IA 240Pursuing Global Sustainability

This course investigates the challenge of achieving global sustainability by looking at a selection of international sustainable

Subject: IA
Type: course
Edition: 2025-2026
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IA 245Making Disasters: Natural Hazards and Human Vulnerability

Natural hazards and disasters drastically influence human security around the globe. Understanding how human security is related to hazard risk is

Subject: IA
Type: course
Edition: 2025-2026
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IA 250Atrocity, Genocide and Reparations

This interdisciplinary course studies the emergence of reparations as reaction to atrocities and genocide on a national and i

Subject: IA
Type: course
Edition: 2025-2026
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IA 260Latin America in Exile

This interdisciplinary course examines exile and the circulation of ideas and dissidence across Latin America and the Caribbean. Drawi

Subject: IA
Type: course
Edition: 2025-2026
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IA 280Research Methods in International Affairs

This course introduces students to the diversity of empirical methods used in International Affairs research, focusing on multi-method

Subject: IA
Type: course
Edition: 2025-2026
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IA 301302 Independent Study

Junior and senior International Affairs majors are encouraged to focus on a topic of particular interest to them

Subject: IA
Type: course
Edition: 2025-2026.json
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IA 301-302Independent Study1

Junior and senior International Affairs majors are encouraged to focus on a topic of particular interest to them, under the supervision of a selected faculty member. Generally, this course involves intensive reading and written reports, though other arrangements can be made between the student and faculty member. Students must obtain the approval of the International Affairs chair and the selected faculty member.

Subject: IA
Credits (min): 1
Credits (max): 1
Type: course
Edition: 2025-2026
Source: lafayette.smartcatalogiq.com

IA 310Mapping World Cities

This course takes a transnational perspective on the "Urban Century," in which, for the first time in human

Subject: IA
Type: course
Edition: 2025-2026
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IA 320Gender and Development in the Global South

This course examines the construction of the western notion of "development" in historical perspective, especial

Subject: IA
Type: course
Edition: 2025-2026
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IA 325Money Well Spent? Politics of Global Philanthropy

Global giving has risen as a result of the amassing of great fortunes in the global economy and driven by digital technologies that encourage smal

Subject: IA
Type: course
Edition: 2025-2026
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IA 330Global Extraction, Resistance and Human Rights

This course examines global extraction of non-renewable resources such as metals, rare-earth minerals and fossil fuels: coal, oil, an

Subject: IA
Type: course
Edition: 2025-2026
Source: lafayette.smartcatalogiq.com

IA 340Special Topics in International Affairs

An offering on a transnational, international and/or global subject selecte

Subject: IA
Type: course
Edition: 2025-2026
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IA 350Global Migration

This interdisciplinary course examines how international migration has become a complex phenomenon af forces at play that halt or enable the circulation of people and interrogates why many are forcibly d

Subject: IA
Type: course
Edition: 2025-2026
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IA 380Contemporary Europe: Between Crisis and Cooperation

This interdisciplinary seminar focuses on the analysis of several large-scale crises that have shaken European economies, politics, and societies in recent years. With the help

Subject: IA
Type: course
Edition: 2025-2026
Source: lafayette.smartcatalogiq.com

IA 400Senior Capstone in International Affairs

Designed as a capstone seminar for International Affairs majors to provide a culminating experience bringing together, through research and t

Subject: IA
Type: course
Edition: 2025-2026
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IA 495-496Thesis1

Students interested in completing a thesis for program honors are advised to consult with the chair toward the end of their junior year. Following selection of a topic and a thesis director, a research design must be provided at the opening of the fall semester. The student then completes IA 495. If the thesis director and chair conclude that sufficient progress has been made, the student takes IA 496 and completes a thesis for submission for honors.

Subject: IA
Credits (min): 1
Credits (max): 1
Type: course
Edition: 2025-2026
Source: lafayette.smartcatalogiq.com

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