Course Offerings

MAIR Course Offerings

The MAIR program offers courses in multiple formats: live, online, and hybrid courses. While the variety of course formats provides flexibility to students, MAIR degree-seeking students will be required to complete at least two in-person courses. We strongly encourage students to complete this requirement early, particularly if they know they will be deployed or moving during the course of their degree.

The MAIR program is pleased to offer a wide spectrum of courses. However, not every course listed will be offered at every site. Students are encouraged to consult the PACS’s Schedule and Syllabi information for yearly course offerings.

The MAIR program provides a broad international relations education that draws on the expertise of a large group of professors. Students benefit most from the program by seeking out instruction from a variety of professors and exposure to diverse ideas and topics. To ensure this takes place, students may not complete and may not include on their Program of Study more than 3 courses taught by any single professor.

All MAIR courses are title-specific. Some courses have the same course number. Only the course titles listed on the MAIR website are accepted for the MAIR degree.

Required Core Course

Course ID	Course Name
IAS 5793	Graduate Studies in International Relations

Required Research Methods Course

Course ID	Course Name
COMM 5003	Quantitative Research Methods
COMM 5053	Qualitative Research Methods
ECON 5023	Statistics for Decision Making
ECON 5073	Contemporary Economic Methods and Analysis
GEOG 5113	Quantitative Methods
HR 5023	Research Methods
IAS 5443	Qualitative Research Methods
PSC 5913	Intro. to Analysis of Political and Administrative Data

**Courses listed as Required or Research Methods cannot be used as elective credits.

Core Area: Politics, Government and Security

*Course titles with an asterisk are listed in multiple areas, but may only be counted once within a student’s degree plan.

Course ID	Course Name
CAS 5970	Biosecurity and Emerging Pathogens
GEOG 6220	Critical Geopolitics*
HIST 6400	American Experience in Vietnam*
HIST 6400	American Foreign Policy Between the Wars*
IAS 5013	International Law
IAS 5023	Practice of Diplomacy*
IAS 5043	Global Security
IAS 5073	International Terrorism
IAS 5093	US Intelligence Community*
IAS 5123	African Peacekeeping*
IAS 5213	Politics of the European Union*
IAS 5233	Western Hemispheric Security
IAS 5383	Political Economy of the Underworld: Organized Crime and Conflict*
IAS 5453	Politics and Policy of the Middle East*
IAS 5513	US Diplomatic History*
IAS 5533	Modern Statecraft
IAS 5940	Women & Terrorism*
IAS 5940	International Activism*
IAS 5940	Global Climate Change Policy*
IAS 5940	International Systems and the United Nations
IAS 5940	Eastern European Politics*
IAS 5940	Terrorism in Africa*
IAS 5940	Gender and War*
IAS 5940	Civil and Military Relations
IAS 5940	U.S.-Russia Relations
PSC 5123	The Making of American Foreign Policy
PSC 5513	International Relations Theory
PSC 5523	Morality in U.S. Foreign Policy
PSC 5550	Inter-American Politics*
PSC 5653	Democracies and Democratization
PSC 5683	Politics of Latin America*
SOC 5970	Overview of Environ. Issues from a Global and Strategic Perspective*

Substantive Area: Identity, Culture and Communication

*Course titles with an asterisk are listed in multiple areas, but may only be counted once within a student’s degree plan.

Course ID	Course Name
CAS 5970	Chinese Culture and Communication*
COMM 5253	Cross-Cultural Communication
COMM 6323	International Communication
COMM 6433	Intercultural Communication
COMM 6970	War, Peace & the Media
HIST 6300	Culture and Identity in Latin America*
HIST 6600	Religion and Society*
HR 5100	International/Intercultural Awareness
HR 5110	International Conflict Resolution
HR 5703	International HR
HR 5113	The Role of Gender in Warfare
IAS 5023	Practice of Diplomacy*
IAS 5093	US Intelligence Community*
IAS 5483	Minorities in the Middle East*
IAS 5363	Cultures of Latin America*
IAS 5373	Media and Conflict in Latin America*
IAS 5643	Global Perspectives on Gender
IAS 5940	International Activism*
IAS 5940	Global Immigration and Media
IAS 5940	African Postcolonial Cinema
IAS 5940	Gender and War*
IAS 5940	US Diplomatic History*
IAS 5940	Women and Terrorism*
RELS 5970	Comparative Religions
RELS 5970	Islamic Culture*
SOC 5970	Religion and Society

Substantive Area: Economics, the Environment and Geography

*Course titles with an asterisk are listed in multiple areas, but may only be counted once within a student’s degree plan.

Course ID	Course Name
ECON 5613	International Economics - Trade
ECON 5633	International Economics - Finance
ECON 5853	World Economic Development
ECON 5990	Chinese Economic Development*
ECON 5990	Comparative Economic Systems
ECON 5990	International Energy Markets
ECON 5990	Middle Eastern Economics*
GEOG 6220	Critical Geopolitics*
GEOG 6220	Indigenous Development in Latin America*
GEOG 6230	ENergy Systems and Sustainability
GEOG 6230	Geography and the World Economy
GEOG 6230	Globalization of Plant Foods and Fiber
GEOG 6240	Climate Change and Society
GEOG 6240	International Dimensions of Biodiversity Conservation
GEOG 6240	Large Scale Ecosystem Restoration
GEOG 6240	Natural Resource Management in a Globalizing World
GEOG 6240	Resource and Environmental Geography
GEOG 6240	Resource Conflict in the Developing World
IAS 5383	Political Economy of the Underworld: Organized Crime and Conflict*
IAS 5940	Global Climate Change Policy*
SOC 5943	Inequality in the Global Perspective
SOC 5970	Overview of Environ. Issues from a Global and Strategic Perspective*

Substantive Area: Regions, Nations and History

*Course titles with an asterisk are listed in multiple areas, but may only be counted once within a student’s degree plan.

Course ID	Course Name
CAS 5970	Chinese Culture and Communication*
CAS 5970	Contemporary China
ECON 5990	Chinese Economic Development*
ECON 5990	Middle Eastern Economics *
HIST 5970	Building Modern Nations: Bismarck and Ben Gurion
HIST 6200	Roots of the Balkan Crisis
HIST 6200	Aspects of the British Empire
HIST 6200	The Great War
HIST 6200	Seminar in History: Russia's World War II
GEOG 6220	Indigenous Development in Latin America*
HIST 6300	Culture and Identity in Latin America*
HIST 6400	American Experience in Vietnam*
HIST 6400	American Foreign Policy Between the World Wars*
HIST 6600	Seminar in Middle Eastern History: Stateless People
HIST 6600	Religion and Society*
HIST 6600	Modern Middle East
IAS 5023	Practice of Diplomacy
IAS 5123	African Peacekeeping*
IAS 5213	Politics of the European Union*
IAS 5363	Cultures of Latin America*
IAS 5375	Media and Conflict in Latin America*
IAS 5453	Politics and Policy of the Middle East*
IAS 5483	Minorities in the Middle East*
IAS 5513	US Diplomatic History
IAS 5940	Afghanistan in Conflict
IAS 5940	Eastern European Politics*
IAS 5940	African Postcolonial Cinema
IAS 5940	Women and Gender in South Asia
IAS 5940	Terrorism in Africa*
PSC 5550	Inter-American Politics*
PSC 5683	Politics of Latin America*
RELS 5970	Islamic Culture*

Electives

Two IR-approved elective courses (6 hours) must be taken.

Elective courses represent the breadth and depth of the core and substantive areas. Depth of understanding is increased by taking electives in a single area while breadth of understanding is increased by taking electives across several degree areas.

IR-approved elective courses may be found within the Core Area of Politics, Government and Security (PGS) or the following Substantive Areas.