International Studies

Major REQs

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FOR ALL OF THE SUBMAJORS REQs:

Lower-Division Requirement Overview

• Foreign language
  • Four quarters of college-level language or equivalent proficiency
• Economics Disciplinary Focus only (6 courses):
  • MATH 10A-B-C or MATH 20A-B-C
  • ECON 1, 2, and 3
• Departmental Course Pre-requisites
  • Please refer to the UCSD General Catalog for course descriptions and course pre-requisites.

Upper-Division Requirement Overview (14 courses)

• Three (3) core courses:
  • INTL 101 and 102 (Gateway Courses)
  • INTL 190 (Capstone Seminar)
• Eight (8) Disciplinary Focus courses
• Three (3) Interdisciplinary Elective courses
• Regional Requirement
  • Three of the above eleven track courses must focus on one country or region

  • International Studies Core Courses (3 courses)

    All courses are 4-units, upper-division and must be taken for a letter grade of C- or better.

    • INTL 101. Culture and Society in International Perspective
    • INTL 102. Economics, Politics, and International Change
    • INTL 190. Seminar in International Studies

    • Regional Requirement

      Three (3) of the eleven (11) disciplinary focus and interdisciplinary elective courses must focus on one region.

      • Note: This requirement is an overlap requirement comprised of courses that count for both the disciplinary focus or interdisciplinary elective courses and the regional requirement.
      • Regional Requirement courses may come all from within the disciplinary focus, interdisciplinary electives, or a mixture of the two.
      • Possible regions include: Africa, East Asia, Europe, Latin America or the Middle East.