Bachelor's Degree Requirements

All relevant degree requirements  must be completed, in addition to the major requirements listed below.

A. Required Courses: IST Core: 15 credit hours

• HIS 101 - The World Since 1500 (3 cr. hr.)
• IST 200 - Foundations of the International System (3 cr. hr.)
• IST 210 - The Making of the Modern World (3 cr. hr.)
• IST 330 - International Negotiation and Mediation (3 cr. hr.)
• IST 400 - Themes in International Studies (3 cr. hr.)

• Select IST 400, or a topic-approved course selected in consultation with advisor

B. Art, language and culture courses

Select three credit hours from the following:

• ATH 344 - Renaissance, Mannerism, Baroque (3 cr. hr.)
• ATH 355 - Rococo Through Impressionism: 18th and 19th Centuries (3 cr. hr.)
• ATH 357 - Modern Art (3 cr. hr.)
• ENG 220 - Introduction to Western Literature I (3 cr. hr.)
• ENG 221 - Introduction to Western Literature II (3 cr. hr.)
• ENG 355 - Major Figures in British Literature to 1780 (3 cr. hr.)
• ENG 411 - World Literature (3 cr. hr.)
• ENG 436 - Medieval England: There and Back Again (3 cr. hr.)
• ENG 440 - Eighteenth-Century British Literature (3 cr. hr.)
• ENG 445 - The Romantic Age (3 cr. hr.)
• ENG 446 - The Victorian Age (3 cr. hr.)
• ENG 455 - The English Novel to 1900 (3 cr. hr.)
• ENG 456 - Modern Irish Drama (3 cr. hr.)
• ENG 457 - Modern Irish Fiction (3 cr. hr.)
• ENG 458 - Modern Irish Poetry (3 cr. hr.)
• ENG 470 - Modern British Poetry (3 cr. hr.)
• ENG 471 - The Modern English Novel (3 cr. hr.)
• FRE 318 - French Civilization (3 cr. hr.)
• FRE 319 - Francophone Civilization (3 cr. hr.)
• FRE 413 - French Literature of the Seventeenth Century (3 cr. hr.)
• FRE 415 - French Literature of the Eighteenth Century (3 cr. hr.)
• FRE 417 - Literature of the Nineteenth Century (3 cr. hr.)
• FRE 419 - Literature of the Twentieth Century (3 cr. hr.)
• FRE 425 - French Cinema (3 cr. hr.)
• SPA 318 - Spanish Peninsular Civilization (3 cr. hr.)
• SPA 411 - The Golden Age of Spanish Literature (3 cr. hr.)
• SPA 419 - Literature of Twentieth Century Spain (3 cr. hr.)
• SPA 320 - Spanish for the Professions (3 cr. hr.)

C. Economics, geography and political science elective courses

Select six credit hours from the following:

• ECO 305 - Political Economy of Globalization (3 cr. hr.)
• ECO 440 - International Trade (3 cr. hr.)  or
• ECO 441 - International Trade (3 cr. hr.)
• GRY 370 - Will the World Provide? A Research Experience for Students (3 cr. hr.)
• GRY 484 - Geography of Europe (3 cr. hr.)
• IST 320 - Introduction to the European Union (3 cr. hr.)
• POL 461 - Europe Today: People and Politics (3 cr. hr.)

D. History: European survey elective courses

Select three credit hours from the following:

• HIS 348 - Europe Since 1914 (3 cr. hr.)
• IST 320 - Introduction to the European Union (3 cr. hr.)

E. History: Topical focus elective courses

Select six credit hours from the following:

• ATH 326 - Art of Greece and Rome (3 cr. hr.)
• HIS 318 - The History of Women in Modern Europe (3 cr. hr.)
• HIS 334 - Russia Since 1894 (3 cr. hr.)
• HIS 341 - Gender and Power in Medieval Europe (3 cr. hr.)
• HIS 342 - Ancient Greece (3 cr. hr.)
• HIS 343 - Roman History (3 cr. hr.)
• HIS 344 - Medieval Europe: 300-1050 (3 cr. hr.)
• HIS 345 - Medieval Europe: 1050-1300 (3 cr. hr.)
• HIS 349 - Central Europe 1789-1918 (3 cr. hr.)
• HIS 441 - Britain since 1688 (3 cr. hr.)
• HIS 447 - Germany since 1815 (3 cr. hr.)
• HIS 460 - The Holocaust (3 cr. hr.)
• HIS 465 - The Soviet Union, 1917-1953 (3 cr. hr.)

F. Elective Course

Select a 3 credit course from those listed below, or from the general College curriculum with approval of advisor. Please note that IST160/POL160 can be taken 3 times (3 credits total). 

• IST 160 - Model European Union (1-2 cr. hr.)

• also listed as POL 160

• POL 250 - International Relations (3 cr. hr.)
• POL 260 - Comparative Politics: Europe (3 cr. hr.)  or
• POL 261 - Comparative Politics: Europe (3 cr. hr.)

G. Upper-Division Electives: 21 credit hours

Choose 21 credit hours in ATH, ESL, HIS, SPA or general electives at the 300 level or above to reach the SUNY mandate of 45 credits at the upper level (300 level or above). Those electives could include study abroad or build toward a minor or a second major in another department.

Total Credit Hours Required for Graduation: 120

Example of the B.A. in International Studies over four years