Africa is a regional concentration that meets the concentration requirement for the ITS major.

Take 9 semester hours, representing at least 2 different disciplines, from the following courses.

* May not double count towards ITS core credit hours

Conflict, Peace, and Diplomacy is a functional concentration that meets the concentration requirement for the ITS major.

Take mandatory course:

POL 271 - World Politics (3 hours, cannot double with core requirements)

Take remaining 2 courses from Groups A and B in the tables below, with no more than 1 course from Group B. You may take all 9 hours from group A. Distribute coursework among at least 2 different disciplines.

* HST 222 and POL 373 may not both count.

Note: Some courses may have prerequisites or may be offered infrequently.

East and South Asia is a regional concentration that meets the concentration requirement for the ITS major.

Take 9 semester hours, representing at least 2 different disciplines, from the following courses.

Global Cultural Relations is a functional concentration that meets the concentration requirement for the ITS major.

Take a total of 9 semester hours from Groups A and B in the tables below, with no more than 1 course from Group B. You may take all 9 hours from group A. Distribute coursework among at least 2 different disciplines.

Note: A cross-listed course can represent any one of the disciplines for which it is cross-listed. For example, POL/WGS 346 can be used for the Political Science discipline, as well as Women's, Gender, and Sexuality discipline.

* May not double count towards ITS core credit hours

The Global Environment is a functional concentration that meets the concentration requirement for the ITS major.

Take 9 semester hours, representing at least 2 different disciplines, from the following courses.

Global Human Rights & Justice is a functional concentration that meets the concentration requirement for the ITS major.

Take these 2 mandatory courses:

• SJS/SOC 165 - Introduction to Social Justice Studies (3 hours)
• SJS/SOC 323 - Social Justice and Change (3 hours, prerequisite SJS/SOC 165)

Take remaining 6 semester hours, representing at least 2 different disciplines, from the following courses.

International Development is a functional concentration that meets the concentration requirement for the ITS major.

Take a total of 9 semester hours from Groups A and B in the tables below, with no more than 1 course from Group B. You may take all 9 hours from group A. Distribute coursework among at least 2 different disciplines.

* May not double count towards ITS core credit hours

Latin America is a regional concentration that meets the concentration requirement for the ITS major.

Take 9 semester hours, representing at least 2 different disciplines, from the following courses.

Middle East is a regional concentration that meets the concentration requirement for the ITS major.

Take 9 semester hours, representing at least 2 different disciplines, from the following courses.

Russia, Eastern Europe, and Central Asia is a regional concentration that meets the concentration requirement for the ITS major.

Take 9semester hours, representing at least 2 different disciplines, from the following courses.

Western Europe is a regional concentration that meets the concentration requirement for the ITS major.

Take 9 semester hours, representing at least 2 different disciplines, from the following courses.

Women in the World is a functional concentration that meets the concentration requirement for the ITS major.

Take 9 semester hours, representing at least 2 different disciplines, from the following courses.

For languages like Korean and Hindi, etc. that are not offered at the 300 level, students are expected to choose a study abroad program that includes upper level language courses so that the requirement can be completed while abroad.

The ITS program requires an entire semester of study abroad. There is a petition process for the rare exception to the semester study abroad requirement. If you wish to file a petition, you should first meet with the program director or the chief program advisor to see if you qualify.

That generally depends on where you place in foreign language. If you begin a new language at the 101 level, you will need 6 to 8 semesters to complete that requirement. You will also need to spend a semester abroad.

You have to take the ITS capstone. You should check with the French department to see if they also require you to take theirs or if they will accept the ITS capstone. Many double majors have to take 2 capstones.

As an international student, a semester at Miami University counts as your study abroad but students are encouraged to consider a study abroad experience.

Valeria Luiselli

[April 2019] Valeria Luiselli was born in Mexico City and grew up in South Korea, South Africa, and India. An acclaimed writer of both fiction and nonfiction, she is the author of the essay collection Sidewalks; the novels Faces in the Crowd and The Story of My Teeth; Tell Me How It Ends: An Essay in Forty Questions and, most recently, Lost Children Archive. She is the winner of two Los Angeles Times Book Prizes and an American Book Award, and has twice been nominated for the National Book Critics Circle Award and the Kirkus Prize. She has been a National Book Foundation "5 Under 35" honoree and the recipient of a Bearing Witness Fellowship from the Art for Justice Fund. Her work has appeared in The New York Times, Granta, and McSweeney's, among other publications, and has been translated into more than 20 languages. She lives in New York City.

Graeme Robertson

[October 2018] Graeme Robertson is a Professor of Political Science at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. His work focuses on political protest and regime support in authoritarian regimes. His most recent publications include Revolution and Reform in Ukraine, published by PONARS Eurasia (with Silviya Nitsova and Grigore Pop-Eleches), as well as scholarly articles on political institutions in authoritarian regimes, on the political psychology of dictatorship and on nationalism and identity. He has published articles in many academic journals including the American Political Science Review, the American Journal of Political Science, The Journal of Politics, and the British Journal of Political Science.

Adekeye Adebajo

[March 2018] Adekeye Adebajo is the Director of the Institute for Pan-African Thought and Conversation (IPATC) at the University of Johannesburg in South Africa. He was Executive Director of the Centre for Conflict Resolution (CCR) in Cape Town, South Africa, between 2003 and 2016. Professor Adebajo served on United Nations missions in South Africa, Western Sahara, and Iraq, and is the author of Building Peace in West Africa; The Curse of Berlin: Africa After the Cold War; UN Peacekeeping in Africa; and Thabo Mbeki: Africa's Philosopher-King. He is co-editor or editor of 9 books on Africa's International Relations, including on Nigeria's and South Africa's domestic and foreign policies. He obtained his doctorate from Oxford University in England where he studied as a Rhodes Scholar, as well as a First Class bachelor's degree from the University of Ibadan in Nigeria. He is a columnist for Business Day (South Africa) and The Guardian (Nigeria).

Charles King

[October 2017] Charles King is Professor of International Affairs and Government and chair of the Department of Government at Georgetown University. He previously served as chair of the faculty of Georgetown's Edmund A. Walsh School of Foreign Service, the country's premier school of global affairs. He is the author or editor of 7 books, including Midnight at the Pera Palace: The Birth of Modern Istanbul which was a New York Times Editors' Choice and was awarded the French "Prix de Voyage Urbain;" Odessa: Genius and Death in a City of Dreams which received the National Jewish Book Award; and The Ghost of Freedom: A History of the Caucasus which was named "History Book of the Year" by the Moscow Times.

Dr. Bruce Cumings

[February 2017] Bruce Cumings is the Gustavus F. and Ann M. Swift Distinguished Service Professor in the Department of History at the University of Chicago. His research and teaching focus on modern Korean history, 20th-century international history, US–East Asian relations, East Asian political economy, and American foreign relations. His first book, The Origins of the Korean War, won the John King Fairbank Book Award of the American Historical Association, and the second volume of this study won the Quincy Wright Book Award of the International Studies Association.

Robin Wright

[October 2016] Robin Wright is a contributing writer to The New Yorker and a joint fellow at the U.S. Institute of Peace and the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars. She has reported from more than 140 countries on six continents and has covered a dozen wars and several revolutions. She is a former diplomatic correspondent for The Washington Post.

Dr. Steven Salaita

[March 2016] Steven Salaita currently serves as the Edward Said Chair of American Studies at the American University of Beirut. His latest book is Uncivil Rites: Palestine and the Limits of Academic Freedom.

Barry R. Posen

[October 2015] Barry R. Posen is Ford International Professor of Political Science at MIT, Director of the MIT Security Studies Program, and serves on the Executive Committee of Seminar XXI. His most recent book, Restraint: A New Foundation for U.S. Grand Strategy, was released in May 2014 (Cornell University Press 2014).

Sarah Chayes

[April 2015] Sarah Chayes, senior associate at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, is an expert in South Asia policy and the security implications of acute corruption worldwide. An award-winning NPR correspondent, Chayes served as special advisor to ISAF command and special assistant to the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, participating in Cabinet-level decision-making on Afghanistan, Pakistan, and the Arab Spring. Her books include The Punishment of Virtue: Inside Afghanistan After the Taliban (2006) and Thieves of State: Why Corruption Threatens Global Security (2015).

Micah White, PhD

[October 2014] Micah White, Ph.D., is one of today's most innovative social activists. White is the former editor of Adbusters, the American creator of the Occupy Wall Street meme, and the inventor of the innovative debt-activism tactic known as Rolling Jubilee. He has more than 15 years of breakthrough campaign experience. White is now the founder of Boutique Activist Consultancy that specializes in anticipating the dynamics of social movement mobilization and contagion. He is currently working on a book about the future of activism.

Dr. Julia Sweig

[October 2013] Dr. Julia Sweig is the Nelson and David Rockefeller Senior fellow for Latin American Studies and Director for Latin American studies at Council on Foreign Relations (CFR). She is the author of Inside the Cuban Revolution (2002), Friendly Fire: Losing Friends and Making Enemies in the Anti-American Century (2006), and Cuba: What Everyone Needs To Know (2012).

Zainab Salbi

[April 2013] Zainab Salbi is the author of Between Two Worlds—Escape from Tyranny: Growing Up in the Shadow of Saddam (Gotham), which details her childhood in Saddam Hussein's inner circle, and The Other Side of War (National Geographic). "The Oprah Winfrey Show" has featured Ms. Salbi and her organization multiple times. Time magazine named Ms. Salbi "Innovator of the Month". Forbes gave her its 2005 Trailblazer Award.

Zha Jianying

[September 2012] Zha Jianying was born in Beijing in 1959 to a family of intellectuals (her father was a professor at the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences). In 1978, she joined the first class of students at the newly reopened Peking University (now Beijing University). In 2003, she was the recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship in non-fiction.

Ben Wedeman

[March 2012] Ben Wedeman is CNN's senior international correspondent based in Cairo, Egypt. Since 1995, he's reported for the network from scenes of conflict and tension across the Middle East and northern Africa including Israel, Pakistan, Lebanon, the Balkans and Iraq. Wedeman was CNN's bureau chief in Cairo from 1998-2006.

Hooman Majd

[October 2011] Hooman Majd is an expert on US-Iranian Relations and the author of The Ayatollah Begs to Differ and The Ayatollahs' Democracy. Majd was born in Iran, and raised and educated in America. The son of an Iranian diplomat, and the grandson of an eminent Ayatollah, Majd has worked as an advisor and translator for two Iranian Presidents, Mohammad Khatami and Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, on their trips to the United States and the UN.

Pico Iyer

[March 2011] Pico Iyer is the author of seven works of non-fiction, including Video Night in Kathmandu, The Lady and the Monk, and The Global Soul. He has also written the novels, Cuba and the Night and Abandon. For a quarter of a century, he has been an essayist for Time magazine. His most recent book, The Open Road, describes more than 30 years of talking and traveling with the Fourteenth Dalai Lama.

Jonathan Morduch

[October 2010] Jonathan Morduch, one of the authors of Portfolios of the Poor, is professor of public policy and economics at New York University He writes and advises widely on microfinance and financial markets. He leads the Financial Access Initiative, a consortium of researchers at NYU, Harvard, Yale, and Innovations for Poverty Action. Morduch holds a Ph.D. in Economics from Harvard.

Brian Nelson and Gregory Wilpert

[March 2010] Brian Nelson and Gregory Wilpert debated controversial issues related to the presidency of Hugo Chávez. Brian Nelson is the author of The Silence and the Scorpion: The Coup against Chávez and the Making of Modern Venezuela (Nation Books, 2009). Gregory Wilpert is the editor of Venezuelanalysis.com and the author of Changing Venezuela by Taking Power: The Policies of the Chávez Presidency (Verso Books, 2007).

Nicholas Kristof

[September 2009] Nicholas Kristof, columnist for The New York Times and two-time Pulitzer Prize winner, has lived on four continents, reported on six, and traveled to more than 140 countries, plus all 50 states, every Chinese province and every main Japanese island. After joining The New York Times in 1984, initially covering economics, Mr. Kristof served as a Times correspondent in Los Angeles, Hong Kong, Beijing and Tokyo. His most recent book, co-authored with Sheryl WuDunn, is Half the Sky: Turning Oppression into Opportunity for Women Worldwide.

Raj Patel

[February 2009] Raj Patel, controversial author, journalist and food policy expert, continuously challenges our presumptions about the global food economy with his work both as a policy analyst and activist. He has worked for some of the most prestigious international organizations and protested against them, and constantly works to find ways to improve the global food system. In his newest work, Stuffed and Starved: The Hidden Battle for the World Food System, Patel discusses the growing worldwide food crisis and what needs to be done to solve it.

Steven Kinzer

[March 2008] An award-winning foreign correspondent, Kinzer spent more than 20 years with the New York Times and has reported from more than 50 countries on four continents. He is author of many books, including Crescent and Star: Turkey Between Two Worlds, All the Shah's Men: An American Coup and the Roots of Middle East Terror, and his most recent, Overthrow: America's Century of Regime Change from Hawaii to Iraq.

Andrew Bacevich

[January 2007] Andrew Bacevich is Professor of International Relations at Boston University and author of The New American Militarism. Bacevich is a 1969 graduate of West Point and a Vietnam veteran. He has criticized American foreign policy in the post Cold War era and argues that the United States has relied too often, and often unsuccessfully, on military power rather than diplomacy to achieve its foreign policy aims.

Shibley Telhami

[October 2006] Shibley Telhami is the Anwar Sadat Professor for Peace and Development at the University of Maryland and author of The Stakes. Telhami is a non-resident senior fellow at the Saban Center for Middle East Policy at the Brookings Institution, has served as adviser to the U.S. Mission to the United Nations and as a member of the U.S. delegation to the Trilateral U.S.-Israeli-Palestinian Anti-Incitement Committee.

Mark Hertsgaard

[November 2005] Hertsgaard is an American journalist, author and broadcaster. In The Eagle's Shadow: Why America Fascinates and Infuriates the World, Hertsgaard explains to Americans what the world really thinks of their nation and why. To non-Americans he explains why America is the way that it is.