Course Information
Courses accepted towards the IS program come from a wide variety of disciplines including journalism, music, political science, economics, anthropology, etc. Every quarter there are hundreds of courses throughout Northwestern that fit within the IS curriculum. If you have questions about a specific course or set of courses, please connect with an IS advisor.
Courses commonly used in the IS curriculum:
| Global Humanities | |||
| HUM | 210-0-20 | Humanities in the World I: Alternate Americas: SciFi, Speculative Futures | Maguire |
| HUM | 310-6-20 | Global Humanities Lab: Revolution (Co-listed with ENGLISH 385-0-20) | Cutler |
| HUM | 211-0-21 | Humanities in the World II | Rivera, Gunter, McClish |
| HUM | 260-0-20 | Economics and the Humanities: Modeling Choice | Morson, Schapiro |
| HUM | 325-4-20 | Hitchhiking the Atlantic (combined w/HISTORY 392-0-30, PORT 396-0-1) | Britt |
| HUM | 370-6-22 | Postcolonial Noir (combined w/ENGLISH 313-0-20, MENA 390-6-20) | Johnson |
| HUM | 370-4-20 | Varieties of Racial Thought (combined w/HISTORY 300-0-28) | Glassman |
| HUM | 370-6-21 | Black Ecology (combined w/ART_HIST 369-0-1, ENVR_POL 390-0-23) | Zorach |
| HUM | 370-6-22 | Shakespeare and Early Modern Race Studies (combined w/AF_AM_ST 380-0-21) | Erickson |
| Political Economy | |||
| ECON | 315-0-20 | Topics in Economic History: Economic History of China | Xue |
| ECON | 326-0-20 | The Economics of Developing Countries | Jayachandran |
| ECON | 362-0-20 | International Finance | Walker |
| POLI_SCI | 348-0-20 | Globalization | Nelson |
| POLI_SCI | 354-0-20 | Politics of Southeast Asia | Winters |
| POLI_SCI | 390-0-23 | Special Topics in Political Science: Global Development (Co-listed with SOCIOL 317-0-20) | Mahoney |
| ECON | 325-0-20 | Economic Growth and Development | Matsuyama |
| ECON | 327-0-20 | Economic Development in Africa | Udry |
| ECON | 342-0-20 | Economics of Gender | Hernandez |
| ECON | 361-0-20 | International Trade | Matsuyama |
| INTL_ST | 290-0-20 | Intl Dev: Issues and Practice | Dees |
| POLI_SCI | 341-0-20 | International Political Economy | Nelson |
| POLI_SCI | 355-0-20 | Politics of China | Hurst |
| POLI_SCI | 359-0-1 | Politics of Africa (combined w/AFST 390-0-21) | Rice |
| POLI_SCI | 368-0-20 | Political Economy of Development | Gans-Morse |
| POLI_SCI | 373-0-20 | Chinese Foreign Policy | Hurst |
| POLI_SCI | 390-0-22 | Democracy in the Global City | Ogorzalek |
| SOCIOL | 324-0-20 | Global Capitalism | Prasad |
| SOCIOL | 376-0-20 | Money and Power | Ozgode |
| ECON | 315-0-20 | Economic History of Israel | Zeira |
| ECON | 362-0-20 | International Finance | Walker |
| GERMAN | 224-0-1 | Contemporary Germany | Behrs |
| HISTORY | 200-0-24 | Modern Israel: History, Politics, and Society, 1882 (combined w/JWSH_ST 280-5-1) | Hirschhorn |
| HISTORY | 203-1-20 | Jewish History 750-1492 | Freedman |
| HISTORY | 251-0-20 | The Politics of Disaster: A Global Environmental History | Barnett |
| INTL_ST | 390-0-20 | Fall of the USSR and Rise of Russia (combined w/SLAVIC 390-0-1) | Kelly |
| JWSH_ST | 280-5-1 | Modern Israel: History, Politics, and Society, 1882 (combined w/HISTORY 200-0-24) | Hirschhorn |
| POLI_SCI | 250-0-20 | Introduction to Comparative Politics | Seawright |
| POLI_SCI | 346-0-20 | European Union in International Affairs | Henke |
| POLI_SCI | 351-0-20 | Politics of the Middle East | Pearlman |
| POLI_SCI | 376-0-20 | Civil Wars | Spruyt |
| POLI_SCI | 390-0-21 | Geopolitics of Energy | Weygandt |
| Global Law | |||
| POLI_SCI | 307-0-20 | Deportation Law and Politics | Stevens |
| POLI_SCI | 383-0-20 | War and Change in International Politics | Spruyt |
| RELIGION | 351-0-20 | Islamic Law (Co-listed with HUM 370-5-20; MENA 301-3-20) | Ingram |
| AFST | 390-0-20 | Constitutional Challenges in Comparative Perspective (combined w/LEGAL_ST 356-0-20, POLI_SCI 356-0-20) | Ruffer |
| ANTHRO | 390-0-23 | Porous Borders: Geography, Power and Tactics of… (combined w/MENA 301-2-20) | Yildiz |
| HISTORY | 300-0-28 | Islamic Law and Mysticism | Petry |
| HISTORY | 392-0-26 | Holocaust Trials | Frommer |
| HISTORY | 395-0-26 | Holocaust Trials: Research Seminar | Frommer |
| LEGAL_ST | 356-0-20 | Constitutional Challenges in Comparative Perspective (combined w/AFST 390-0-20, POLI_SCI 356-0-20) | Ruffer |
| LEGAL_ST | 376-0-21 | Law and Literature | Allen |
| MENA | 390-3-20 | Breaking the Law in the Middle East (combined w/ANTHRO 390-0-23) | Yildiz |
| MENA | 390-3-21 | Migrant Sexualities, Queer Travelers: Translocation (combined w/ANTHRO 390-0-27) | Yildiz |
| POLI_SCI | 346-0-20 | European Union in International Affairs | Henke |
| U.S. and the world | |||
| HISTORY | 393-0-22 | Approaches to History: American Militarism | Allen |
| AF_AM_ST | 320-0-20 | Social Meaning of Race | Patillo |
| GERMAN | 326-0-20 | Weimar in America (combined w/ENGLISH 312-0-21) | Manning |
| HISTORY | 275-2-20 | History of Science and Medicine: In Modern Europe and America | Alder |
| HUM | 325-4-20 | Hitchhiking the Atlantic (combined w/HISTORY 392-0-30, PORT 396-0-1) | Britt |
| INTL_ST | 290-0-20 | Intl Dev: Issues and Practice | Dees |
| INTL_ST | 390-0-21 | Dilemmas of American Power (combined w/JOUR 353-0-20) | Slevin |
| PORT | 396-0-1 | Hitchhiking the Atlantic (combined w/HISTORY 392-0-30, HUM 325-4-20) | Britt |
| SOCIOL | 324-0-20 | Global Capitalism | Prasad |
| HISTORY | 282-0-20 | Sino-American Relations in the Modern World | Macauley |
| INTL_ST | 390-0-21 | Turkey and the World: Foreign Policy, History, and Identity (combined w/POLI_SCI 390-0-32) | Grigoriadis |
| SLAVIC | 390-0-1 | Fall of the USSR and Rise of Russia (combined w/INTL_ST 390-0-21) | Kelly |
| Borders, Boundaries, Crossings | |||
| AF_AM_ST | 345-0-20 | Afro-Latin America: Politics of Afro-Latin America | Bryant |
| AF_AM_ST | 348-0-20 | Africans in Colonial Latin America | Bryant |
| AF_AM_ST | 380-0-21 | Shakespeare and Early Modern Race Studies (combined w/HUM 370-6-22) | Erickson |
| AFST | 390-0-20 | Biocultural Perspectives on Water Insecurity (combined w/GBL_HLTH 390-0-22, ANTHRO 390-0-28) | Young |
| ANTHRO | 211-0-01 | Culture & Society | Weismantel |
| ANTHRO | 215-0-01 | The Study of Culture through Language | Hoffman |
| ANTHRO | 390-0-22 | Anthro of Food Security and Sustainability | Logan |
| ANTHRO | 390-0-22 | Archaeology of Food and Drink | Logan |
| ANTHRO | 390-0-23 | Porous Borders: Geography, Power and Tactics of… (combined w/MENA 301-2-20) | Yildiz |
| ANTHRO | 390-0-24 | Ecology of Infant Feeding (combined w/GBL_HLTH 390-0-21) | Young |
| ANTHRO | 390-0-26 | Race Across Time in Latin America (combined w/SPANISH 397-0-1) | Arispe-Bazan |
| ANTHRO | 390-0-27 | Migrant Sexualities, Queer Travelers: Translocation (combined w/MENA 390-3-21) | Yildiz |
| ANTHRO | 390-0-28 | Biocultural Perspectives on Water Insecurity (combined w/GBL_HLTH 390-0-22, AF_ST 390-0-20) | Young |
| ANTHRO | 315-0-20 | Medical Anthropology | Seligman |
| ANTHRO | 390-0-23 | Breaking the Law in the Middle East: Many Careers (combined w/MENA 390-3-20) | Yildiz |
| ART | 372-0-20 | Seminar | Fernandes |
| ART_HIST | 224-0-1 | Introduction to Ancient Art | Gunter |
| ART_HIST | 228-0-1 | Introduction to Pre-Columbian Art | staff |
| ART_HIST | 390-0-2 | Borobudur | Linrothe |
| ASIAN_AM | 370-0-1 | Studies in Diaspora: Korean Diasporas (Co-listed with HISTORY 300-0-22) | Yuh |
| ASIAN_LC | 290-0-20 | Dao of Sex: Sexual Culture in Pre-Modern China (combined w/GNDR_ST 341-0-21, GNDR_ST 350-3-21) | Zamperini |
| ASIAN_LC | 290-0-21 | Travel and Travel Writing in South Asia | Majchrowicz |
| ASIAN_LC | 290-0-22 | The Birth of Modern Japan: Literature and Culture | Gaubatz |
| ASIAN_LC | 390-0-20 | Taiwanese New Wave Cinema | Byrnes |
| ASIAN_LC | 390-0-20 | Cities in Premodern Japanese Literature | Gaubatz |
| ASIAN_LC | 390-0-21 | Women's Voices in Contemporary South Korea | Kim |
| ASIAN_LC | 390-0-21 | Kings, Courtesans, and Khan Artists: Picturing Islam | Majchrowicz |
| ASIAN_LC | 390-0-22 | Chan/Seon/Zen Buddhism (combined w/RELIGION 319-0-20) | Buckelew |
| ASIAN_LC | 390-0-22 | Queer East Asias (combined w/GNDR_ST 341-0-20, GNDR_ST 350-3-20) | Zamperini |
| ASIAN_LC | 390-0-23 | Buddhism in the Contemporary World (combined w/RELIGION 314-0-20) | Jacoby |
| COMM_ST | 321-0-20 | Media & Publics Across Cultures | Blechschmidt |
| COMP_LIT | 202-0-20 | 20th C Russian Literature (combined w/SLAVIC 211-1-1) | Pike |
| COMP_LIT | 307-0-20 | Queer Theory Latin America (combined w/SPANISH 397-0-1) | Cruz |
| COMP_LIT | 390-0-20 | Persian Poetry and Iran's Poetesses | Khoshkhoosani |
| ENGLISH | 313-0-20 | Postcolonial Noir (combined w/HUM 370-6-22, MENA 390-6-20) | Johnson |
| ENGLISH | 357-0-20 | 19th Century British Fiction | Herbert |
| FRENCH | 211-0-20 | Changing France: Reading Cultures in French | Licops |
| FRENCH | 211-0-20 | Reading Cultures in French | Licops |
| FRENCH | 272-0-20 | Tragic Consciousness Mod. French Drama | Dupas |
| FRENCH | 273-0-20 | Text, Sound, Image: Introducing Poetry | Doyle |
| FRENCH | 322-0-20 | From Roman to Romance: Medieval French Narratives | Davis |
| FRENCH | 333-0-20 | Topics in Renaissance Lit: Montaigne and Modernity | Nazarian |
| FRENCH | 344-0-20 | Rousseau and the French Revolution | Garraway |
| FRENCH | 350-0-20 | From Text to Image: The Novel in French | Doyle |
| FRENCH | 386-0-20 | Feminist Autofictions: Gender & Writing | Dupas |
| GBL_HLTH | 301-0-20 | Introduction to International Public Health | Locke |
| GBL_HLTH | 302-0-20 | Global Bioethics | Rodriguez |
| GBL_HLTH | 306-0-1 | Biomedicine and Culture | Sullivan |
| GBL_HLTH | 321-0-1 | War and Public Health | Locke |
| GBL_HLTH | 390-0-20 | Gbl H from Policy to Practice | Sullivan |
| GBL_HLTH | 390-0-21 | Ecology of Infant Feeding (combined w/ANTHRO 390-0-24) | Young |
| GBL_HLTH | 390-0-22 | History of Reproductive Health | Rodriguez |
| GERMAN | 326-0-20 | Weimar in America (combined w/ENGLISH 312-0-21) | Manning |
| GERMAN | 346-0-20 | Topics in German Literature and Culture (combined w/SLAVIC 393-0-1) | Kerlova |
| GERMAN | 366-0-20 | Yiddish Culture and the Holocaust (combined w/JWSH ST 366-0-1) | Moseley |
| GNDR_ST | 321-0-21 | Gender, War & Revolution (combined w/HISTORY 340-0-20) | Liu |
| HISTORY | 201-1-20 | European Civilization: High Medieval Thru Mid-18th C | Barnett |
| HISTORY | 255-3-20 | Background to African Civilization and Culture | Glassman |
| HISTORY | 271-3-20 | History of the Islamic Middle East 1789-present | Lauziere |
| HISTORY | 275-2-20 | History of Science and Medicine: In Modern Europe and America | Alder |
| HISTORY | 281-0-20 | Chinese Civilization | Macauley |
| HISTORY | 300-0-28 | Islamic Law and Mysticism | Petry |
| HISTORY | 340-0-20 | Gender, War & Revolution (combined w/GNDR_ST 321-0-21) | Liu |
| HISTORY | 349-0-20 | History of the Holocaust | Frommer |
| HISTORY | 362-3-20 | Modern British History, 1900-present | Cohen |
| HISTORY | 366-0-20 | Race and Nation in the Independence Era | Ramirez |
| HISTORY | 379-0-20 | Biomedicine and World History | Tilley |
| HISTORY | 392-0-20 | The Arabian Nights | Petry |
| HISTORY | 392-0-22 | Gender Revolution in China | Carroll |
| HISTORY | 392-0-26 | Holocaust Trials | Frommer |
| HISTORY | 392-0-28 | Censorship in the Premodern World | Freedman |
| HISTORY | 393-0-24 | Oral Hist & Terror Archives in Latin Amer | Britto |
| HISTORY | 393-0-26 | Islamic Political Thought & Activism in the Modern Middle East | Lauziere |
| HISTORY | 393-0-28 | Frontiers, Borderlands, and Nationalisms | Koul |
| HISTORY | 395-0-20 | The Arabian Nights: Research Seminar | Petry |
| HISTORY | 395-0-22 | Gender Revolution in China: Research Seminar | Carroll |
| HISTORY | 395-0-24 | Hamas and Palestinian Political Islam: Research Seminar | Rekhess |
| HISTORY | 395-0-26 | Holocaust Trials: Research Seminar | Frommer |
| HISTORY | 395-0-28 | Refugees/Migration/Exile (colisted w/LATIN AM 391-0-20, INTL ST 390-0-20, RELIGION 379-0-24) | Molina |
| HISTORY | 392-0-24 | Hamas and Palestinian Political Islam | Rekhess |
| HISTORY | 392-0-30 | Hitchhiking the Atlantic (combined w/HUM 325-4-20, PORT 396-0-1) | Britt |
| INTL_ST | 390-0-20 | Special Topics in International Studies: Refugee Crises & Human Rights (Co-listed with POLI_SCI 380-0-20) | Ben-Arieh |
| INTL_ST | 390-0-20 | Refugees/Migration/Exile (combined w/LATIN AM 391-0-20, HIST 395-0-28, RELIGION 379-0-24) | Molina |
| JOUR | 372-0-20 | International Journalism: South Africa | Greenwell |
| JWSH_ST | 280-7-1 | Topics in Israel Studies: The Arab Israeli Conflict | Daskal |
| JWSH_ST | 366-0-1 | Yiddish Culture and the Holocaust (combined w/GERMAN 366-0-20) | Moseley |
| LATIN_AM | 391-0-20 | Refugees/Migration/Exile (colisted w/INTL ST 390-0-20, HIST 395-0-28, RELIGION 379-0-24) | Molina |
| LING | 222-0-20 | Language, Politics, and Identity (combined w/SLAVIC 255-0-20) | Elliott |
| MENA | 301-2-20 | Porous Borders: Geography, Power and Tactics of…(combined w/ANTHRO 390-0-23) | Yildiz |
| MENA | 390-6-20 | Postcolonial Noir (combined w/HUM 370-6-22, ENGLISH 313-0-20) | Johnson |
| MENA | 390-6-21 | Advanced Topics in Middle East & North African Studies (combined w/COMP_LIT 390-0-20) | Khoshkhoosani |
| MUSICOL | 330-0-1 | Russian Fairy Tale and Opera | Naroditskaya |
| MUSICOL | 352-0-1 | Music in Purcell's England | Austern |
| POLI_SCI | 345-0-20 | National Security | Henke |
| POLI_SCI | 376-0-20 | Civil Wars | Reno |
| PSYCH | 334-0-20 | Language and Thought | Gentner |
| RELIGION | 210-0-20 | Introduction to Buddhism | Jacoby |
| RELIGION | 230-0-20 | Introduction to Judaism | Wimpfheimer |
| RELIGION | 319-0-20 | Chan/Seon/Zen Buddhism (combined w/ASIAN_LC 390-0-22) | Buckelew |
| RELIGION | 339-0-21 | Gender and Judaism | Sufrin |
| RTVF | 312-1-20 | History of Film I | Rogers |
| SLAVIC | 211-1-1 | 20th C Russian Literature (combined w/COMP_LIT 202-0-20) | Pike |
| SLAVIC | 255-0-20 | Language, Politics, and Identity (combined w/LING 222-0-20) | Elliott |
| SLAVIC | 303-2-1 | Modern Russian Readings and Language | Malinina |
| SLAVIC | 390-0-1 | Introduction to Polish Literature | Kosmala |
| SLAVIC | 393-0-1 | Prague: City of Cultures, City of Conflict (combined w/GERMAN 346-0-20) | Kerlova |
| SPANISH | 223-0-1 | Cervantes | Fernandez-Morera |
| SPANISH | 250-0-1 | Literature in Spain before 1700 | Baez |
| SPANISH | 261-0-1 | Literature in Latin America since 1888 | Bouzaglou |
| SPANISH | 310-0-1 | Origins of Spanish Civilization | Fernandez-Morera |
| SPANISH | 395-0-2 | Representaciones del Indio y de la Indigeneidad | Coronado |
| SPANISH | 397-0-1 | Queer Theory Latin America (combined w/COMP_LIT 307-0-20) | Cruz |
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