Department of International Studies
Certificate in Global Service and Peace Corps Preparation
Students on Summer 2018, Fall 2018, or Spring 2019 requirements GLSPCPACRT
Requirements
The certificate requires at least 25 credit hours, including the requirements listed below.
- Global Competence. One (1) course:
- INTL-I 202 Global Health and Environment
- INTL-I 203 Global Development
- INTL-I 204 Human Rights and International Law
- INTL-I 205 Culture and Politics
- INTL-I 206 Peace and Conflict
- INTL-I 210 Diplomacy, Security, Governance
- INTL-I 220 Global Connections
- INTL-I 222 Global Health Connections
INTL-I 202 Global Health and Environment
- Credits
- 3
- Prerequisites
- None
- Description
- Examination of pressing health and environmental challenges around the world, such as deforestation, climate change and the spread of infectious diseases. Focuses on the interaction of health and environmental problems that cross national borders and require a multinational or global effort to solve.
- Spring 2025CASE GCCcourseFall 2024CASE GCCcourse
- Spring 2025CASE SHcourseFall 2024CASE SHcourse
INTL-I 203 Global Development
- Credits
- 3
- Prerequisites
- None
- Description
- Focuses on the interaction between social, political, and economic forces and human development at global, national, and subnational scales; introduces theoretical perspectives on economic development and the function of markets.
- Spring 2025CASE SHcourseFall 2024CASE SHcourse
INTL-I 204 Human Rights and International Law
- Credits
- 3
- Prerequisites
- None
- Description
- Focuses on human rights discourse and the role international law, treaties and conventions play in addressing these rights globally. Course is interdisciplinary in theory and method.
- Spring 2025CASE GCCcourseFall 2024CASE GCCcourse
- Spring 2025CASE SHcourseFall 2024CASE SHcourse
INTL-I 205 Culture and Politics
- Credits
- 3
- Prerequisites
- None
- Description
- Examines culture and governance on an international scale, considering how governments, markets, and international organizations deploy or use culture, and how people turn to cultural resources to resist attempts to govern them and/or to assert their own political aims.
- Spring 2025CASE GCCcourseFall 2024CASE GCCcourse
- Spring 2025CASE SHcourseFall 2024CASE SHcourse
INTL-I 206 Peace and Conflict
- Credits
- 3
- Prerequisites
- None
- Description
- Examines concepts of nationalism and state ideology that shape the world's collective identities and contribute to conflicts nationally and internationally.
- Spring 2025CASE GCCcourseFall 2024CASE GCCcourse
- Spring 2025CASE SHcourseFall 2024CASE SHcourse
INTL-I 210 Diplomacy, Security, Governance
- Credits
- 3
- Prerequisites
- None
- Description
- Examines the development of the modern state and the role of international organizations in maintaining global security and promoting global governance. Addresses issues of political and cultural diplomacy and their effect in international disputes.
- Spring 2025CASE SHcourseFall 2024CASE SHcourse
INTL-I 220 Global Connections
- Credits
- 3
- Prerequisites
- None
- Description
- Focuses on globalization as manifested in the shaping of intercultural communication, artistic expressions, collective identities and human rights discourses from comparative and international perspectives.
- Spring 2025CASE AHcourseFall 2024CASE AHcourse
- Spring 2025CASE GCCcourseFall 2024CASE GCCcourse
INTL-I 222 Global Health Connections
- Credits
- 3
- Prerequisites
- None
- Description
- Focuses on the non-medical determinants of health in communities and societies around the world, as well as on the most important health challenges the world faces. One of the main goals is to understand and evaluate the importance of local contexts and global processes in addressing health issues today, while also engaging in discussions about human rights, ethics, inequalities, and pragmatic and global solidarity.
- Spring 2025CASE SHcourseFall 2024CASE SHcourse
- Regional Expertise. One (1) course:
- AFRI-L 231 African Civilization
- AFRI-L 232 Contemporary Africa
- CEUS-R 290 Introduction to Central Asia, Mongolia, and Tibet
- CEUS-R 292 Introduction to Turkic and Iranian Civilization
- EALC-E 110 Popular Culture in East Asia
- EALC-E 111 War and Violence in East Asia
- EALC-E 190 The Rise of China: Challenges and Opportunities for East Asia
- INST-I 100
- LTAM-L 211 Contemporary Latin America and the Caribbean
- SEAS-S 231 Growing Up in Southeast Asia
AFRI-L 231 African Civilization
- Credits
- 3
- Prerequisites
- None
- Description
- A historical introduction to Africa.
- Repeatability
- Credit given for only one of AFRI-L 231 or HIST-H 227.
- Spring 2025CASE GCCcourseFall 2024CASE GCCcourse
- Spring 2025CASE SHcourseFall 2024CASE SHcourse
AFRI-L 232 Contemporary Africa
- Credits
- 3
- Prerequisites
- None
- Description
- An introduction to current social, economic, and political issues in Africa.
- Spring 2025CASE GCCcourseFall 2024CASE GCCcourse
- Spring 2025CASE SHcourseFall 2024CASE SHcourse
CEUS-R 290 Introduction to Central Asia, Mongolia, and Tibet
- Credits
- 3
- Prerequisites
- None
- Description
- Central Asia, Mongolia, and Tibet have a unique legacy in the world today: nomads, Silk Road, Islam, Buddhism, Russo-Chinese rivalry, Communism, and resistance. This course will provide a broad overview of trends and issues in this crossroads of cultures and civilizations through a combination of lectures, discussions, and guest presentations.
- Spring 2025CASE GCCcourseFall 2024CASE GCCcourse
- Spring 2025CASE SHcourseFall 2024CASE SHcourse
CEUS-R 292 Introduction to Turkic and Iranian Civilization
- Credits
- 3
- Prerequisites
- None
- Description
- Introduction to the Turkic and Iranian peoples of Iran, Turkey, Afghanistan, and Central Asia. Introduces languages, literatures, and cultures; covers history, society, and economy with a focus on Islam and socio-political movements today. Includes guest lectures, films, museum visits, and musical and dance performances.
- Spring 2025CASE GCCcourseFall 2024CASE GCCcourse
- Spring 2025CASE SHcourseFall 2024CASE SHcourse
EALC-E 110 Popular Culture in East Asia
- Credits
- 3
- Prerequisites
- None
- Description
- Surveys East Asian popular culture by examining the evolution and contemporary forms of mass culture in the region. Students will study the structure and political, social, and cultural implications of transnational cultural flows between East Asia and the West.
- Spring 2025CASE AHcourseFall 2024CASE AHcourse
- Spring 2025CASE GCCcourseFall 2024CASE GCCcourse
EALC-E 111 War and Violence in East Asia
- Credits
- 3
- Prerequisites
- None
- Description
- Explores the history of physical violence in China, Japan, and Korea, with a special emphasis on state-sanctioned conflict. Examines the forms that war and violence took in the lives and minds of the residents of East Asia before the nineteenth century.
- Spring 2025CASE SHcourseFall 2024CASE SHcourse
EALC-E 190 The Rise of China: Challenges and Opportunities for East Asia
- Credits
- 3
- Prerequisites
- None
- Description
- Introduction to issues relating to China's rise in the context of East Asia. Covers the regional implications of China's rise and the myriad drivers of China's domestic political, economic, and foreign policy trajectory in comparison to other East Asian nations.
- Spring 2025CASE GCCcourseFall 2024CASE GCCcourse
- Spring 2025CASE SHcourseFall 2024CASE SHcourse
LTAM-L 211 Contemporary Latin America and the Caribbean
- Credits
- 3
- Prerequisites
- None
- Description
- Explores social issues, cultural identities, political movements, and lived experience of the diverse communities of contemporary Latin America and the Caribbean in historical perspective, including sexualities, multiculturalism, the rise of capitalism, US imperialism, tourism, heritage, religious beliefs and practices, legacies of slavery, struggles for democracy, and structures of domination.
- Spring 2025CASE GCCcourseFall 2024CASE GCCcourse
- Spring 2025CASE SHcourseFall 2024CASE SHcourse
SEAS-S 231 Growing Up in Southeast Asia
- Credits
- 3
- Prerequisites
- None
- Description
- Exploration of the multiple constructions of childhood across Southeast Asia, combining sociocultural and policy relevant perspectives. Themes will include family dynamics and cultural transmission; the rights of children; and the life experiences of 'children in especially difficult circumstances,' including refugees, children of migrant workers, and those compelled to work.
- Spring 2025CASE SHcourseFall 2024CASE SHcourse
- Advanced Global Competence. One (1) course:
- INTL-I 300 Topics in International Studies
- INTL-I 302 Advanced Topics in Global Health and Environment
- INTL-I 303 Advanced Topics in Global Development
- INTL-I 304 Advanced Topics in Human Rights and International Law
- INTL-I 305 Advanced Topics in Culture and Politics
- INTL-I 306 Advanced Topics in Peace and Conflict
- INTL-I 310 Advanced Topics in Diplomacy, Security, Governance
- INTL-I 340 Ethics and Decision-Making in International Politics
- INTL-I 341 Challenges of Modern Conflict
- INTL-I 343 Global Migration and Race
- INTL-L 351 Law and Authoritarianism
- INTL-L 352 Law and Global Development
- INTL-L 353 Laws and Institutions in International Investment
- INTL-L 354 Immigration Law, International Policy, and Migration
- INTL-L 355 Gender and International Human Rights
- INTL-L 356 Intervention and Sovereignty
- INTL-L 357 The International Criminal Court
- INTL-L 360
- INTL-X 370 Topics with Service Learning in International Studies
- INTL-I 420 Global Sustainability Studies
- INTL-I 421 Human Rights and the Arts
- INTL-I 422 Contested Territories/Conflicted Identities
- INTL-I 423 Postcolonial/Postcommunist Discourses
- INTL-I 424 War and Peace
- INTL-I 425 Gender: International Perspectives
- INTL-I 426 Advanced Topics in International Studies
- INTL-I 427 Issues in Global Development and Political Economy
- INTL-I 428 Social Justice and the Environment
- INTL-I 429 Global Health Politics
- INTL-I 431 Statistics for International Studies
- INTL-I 432 Models of Social and Political Processes
- INTL-I 433 Violence Against Civilians in War
- INTL-I 434 International Climate Governance
- INTL-I 499 Seminar in Conflict Studies
- INTL-L 445 Human Rights Law and International Organizations
INTL-I 300 Topics in International Studies
- Credits
- 1–3 credit hours
- Prerequisites
- None
- Description
- This course focuses on the intensive study and analysis of selected international problems and issues within an interdisciplinary format. Topics will vary but will cut across fields, regions, and periods.
- Repeatability
- May be repeated with different topics for a maximum of 12 credit hours.
INTL-I 302 Advanced Topics in Global Health and Environment
- Credits
- 3
- Prerequisites
- None
- Description
- Advanced topics examining pressing health and environmental challenges around the world. Focuses on the interaction of health and environmental problems that cross national borders and require a multinational or global effort to solve.
- Repeatability
- May be repeated with a different topic for a maximum of 12 credit hours.
INTL-I 303 Advanced Topics in Global Development
- Credits
- 3
- Prerequisites
- None
- Description
- Advanced topics examining the interaction between social, political, and economic forces and human development at global, national, and subnational scales; in-depth analysis of theoretical perspectives on economic development and the function of markets.
- Repeatability
- May be repeated with a different topic for a maximum of 12 credit hours.
INTL-I 304 Advanced Topics in Human Rights and International Law
- Credits
- 3
- Prerequisites
- None
- Description
- Advanced topics focusing on human rights discourse and the role international law, treaties and conventions play in addressing these rights globally. Topics are interdisciplinary in theory and method.
- Repeatability
- May be repeated with a different topic for a maximum of 12 credit hours.
INTL-I 305 Advanced Topics in Culture and Politics
- Credits
- 3
- Prerequisites
- None
- Description
- Advanced topics in the study of culture and governance. The focus is on relationships of power and authority, including how governments, markets, and international organizations deploy or use culture, and how people turn to cultural resources to resist attempts to govern them and/or to assert their own political aims.
- Repeatability
- May be repeated with a different topic for a maximum of 12 credit hours.
INTL-I 306 Advanced Topics in Peace and Conflict
- Credits
- 3
- Prerequisites
- None
- Description
- Advanced topics examining concepts of nationalism and state ideology that shape the world's collective identities and contribute to conflicts nationally and internationally.
- Repeatability
- May be repeated with a different topic for a maximum of 12 credit hours.
INTL-I 310 Advanced Topics in Diplomacy, Security, Governance
- Credits
- 3
- Prerequisites
- None
- Description
- Advanced topics focusing on the development of the modern state and the role of international organizations in maintaining global security and promoting global governance. Addresses issues of political and cultural diplomacy and their effect in international disputes.
- Repeatability
- May be repeated with a different topic for a maximum of 12 credit hours.
INTL-I 340 Ethics and Decision-Making in International Politics
- Credits
- 3
- Prerequisites
- None
- Description
- Addresses the role of ethics and morality in the international system as applied to states, international organizations, nongovernmental organizations, and individuals. Explores dilemmas policymakers face as they weigh alternatives, try to reconcile competing demands, and search for acceptable trade-offs. Focuses on problems such as mass atrocities, forms of slavery, poverty, and the challenges of dealing with illiberal governments.
INTL-I 341 Challenges of Modern Conflict
- Credits
- 3
- Prerequisites
- None
- Description
- Overview of the theoretical and policy debates regarding core issues of security and conflict in the modern era, with a particular focus on conflict involving state and nonstate actors. Explores historical contexts and future trajectories of key issues of security, conflict, human rights, law, and technology.
INTL-I 343 Global Migration and Race
- Credits
- 3
- Prerequisites
- None
- Description
- Explores the causes and consequences of global migration through the lens of race and racism. Focuses on how people move across state borders while simultaneously crossing cultural, racial, and civilizational boundaries. Highlights theories of mobility and development, race and ethnicity, and migration across specific corridors.
INTL-L 351 Law and Authoritarianism
- Credits
- 3
- Prerequisites
- None
- Description
- Explores functions and behavior of legal systems in various authoritarian contexts. Examines conceptual distinction between, and defining characteristics of, rule of law and rule by law systems and general mechanisms of political control and interference in judicial decision-making.
- Repeatability
- May be repeated with different topic for a maximum of 6 credit hours.
INTL-L 352 Law and Global Development
- Credits
- 3
- Prerequisites
- None
- Description
- Explores the role of law and legal systems in economic and social development. Studies the causes of and ways to address critical development issues such as global poverty and inequality.
INTL-L 353 Laws and Institutions in International Investment
- Credits
- 3
- Prerequisites
- None
- Description
- Study of the economic, historical, cultural, and political forces that shape and influence international investments; and the roles that international laws and institutions play in cross-border business transactions.
INTL-L 354 Immigration Law, International Policy, and Migration
- Credits
- 3
- Prerequisites
- None
- Description
- Study of immigration law from multiple perspectives: legal, political, international, public policy, social, moral, and ethical. Addresses issues such as citizenship, migration, marriage, and asylum.
INTL-L 355 Gender and International Human Rights
- Credits
- 3
- Prerequisites
- None
- Description
- Explores the historical, political and philosophical foundations of the international human rights legal system and examines how and why the current system addresses, or fails to address, gender-based rights violations and claims.
INTL-L 356 Intervention and Sovereignty
- Credits
- 3
- Prerequisites
- None
- Description
- Discussion of the origins and evolution of international laws on genocide, atrocity, and crimes against humanity; exploration of the philosophical and legal bases for international laws on conflict.
INTL-L 357 The International Criminal Court
- Credits
- 3
- Prerequisites
- None
- Description
- Study of the origins and evolution of the International Criminal Court and its efforts to investigate and prosecute war crimes, crimes against humanity, genocide, and aggression.
INTL-X 370 Topics with Service Learning in International Studies
- Credits
- 3
- Prerequisites
- None
- Description
- Examines issues of international scope through service learning projects. Content varies with instructor.
- Repeatability
- May be repeated with a different topic for a maximum of 6 credit hours in INTL-I 435 and INTL-X 370.
INTL-I 420 Global Sustainability Studies
- Credits
- 3
- Prerequisites
- None
- Description
- Interdisciplinary study of comparative environmental issues around the world.
- Repeatability
- May be repeated with a different topic for a maximum of 12 credit hours.
INTL-I 421 Human Rights and the Arts
- Credits
- 3
- Prerequisites
- None
- Description
- Study of human rights through the arts. Exploration of artistic expressions in various sociopolitical contexts and the global trends from which they emerge.
- Repeatability
- May be repeated with a different topic for a maximum of 12 credit hours.
INTL-I 422 Contested Territories/Conflicted Identities
- Credits
- 3
- Prerequisites
- None
- Description
- Study of nationalism to explore how history, politics and culture conflict and converge in shaping multiple identities.
- Repeatability
- May be repeated with a different topic for a maximum of 12 credit hours.
INTL-I 423 Postcolonial/Postcommunist Discourses
- Credits
- 3
- Prerequisites
- None
- Description
- Study of emergence and use of postcolonial and postcommunist theories to analyze colonial and communist discourses as well as their political and cultural legacies.
- Repeatability
- May be repeated with a different topic for a maximum of 12 credit hours.
INTL-I 424 War and Peace
- Credits
- 3
- Prerequisites
- None
- Description
- Exploration of war and peace with regard to their political, moral and legal consequences. Study of structures that adjudicate disputes and the role of international organizations in regulating war and initiating peace.
- Repeatability
- May be repeated with a different topic for a maximum of 12 credit hours.
INTL-I 425 Gender: International Perspectives
- Credits
- 3
- Prerequisites
- None
- Description
- Examination of gender issues from international and interdisciplinary perspectives.
- Repeatability
- May be repeated with a different topic for a maximum of 12 credit hours.
INTL-I 426 Advanced Topics in International Studies
- Credits
- 1–3 credit hours
- Prerequisites
- None
- Description
- In-depth study and analysis of an international problem, culminating in a research project. Topics vary.
- Repeatability
- May be repeated with different topics up to four times.
INTL-I 427 Issues in Global Development and Political Economy
- Credits
- 3
- Prerequisites
- None
- Description
- Interdisciplinary study of issues of global development and political economy. Includes both analytical and methodological approaches.
- Repeatability
- May be repeated with a different topic for a maximum of 12 credit hours.
INTL-I 428 Social Justice and the Environment
- Credits
- 3
- Prerequisites
- None
- Description
- Interdisciplinary study of comparative environmental justice issues around the world.
- Repeatability
- May be repeated with a different topic for a maximum of 12 credit hours.
INTL-I 429 Global Health Politics
- Credits
- 3
- Prerequisites
- None
- Description
- Study of global health policies and their relationships to social movements. Focuses on the effect of global governance institutions and NGOs on global health policy and action.
- Repeatability
- May be repeated with a different topic for a maximum of 12 credit hours.
INTL-I 431 Statistics for International Studies
- Credits
- 3
- Prerequisites
- None
- Description
- Introduction to statistics and quantitative measures in international studies. Provides practical experience with descriptive and inferential statistics as well as international indicators. No previous knowledge or coursework in statistics is required.
- Spring 2025CASE NMcourseFall 2024CASE NMcourse
INTL-I 432 Models of Social and Political Processes
- Credits
- 3
- Prerequisites
- None
- Description
- Surveys quantitative frameworks for evaluating global and international phenomena, events, and processes to assess political and social obstacles to achieving collective goals. A basic knowledge of algebra is necessary to succeed in this course.
INTL-I 433 Violence Against Civilians in War
- Credits
- 3
- Prerequisites
- None
- Description
- Examines the content and origins of normative, ethical, and legal prohibitions against harming noncombatants during conflict; reviews major social science theories explaining the occurrence and effectiveness of large-scale violence against civilians in wartime; and analyzes policy debates related to limiting wartime victimization of noncombatants.
INTL-I 434 International Climate Governance
- Credits
- 3
- Prerequisites
- None
- Description
- Study of climate issues with a focus on the effect of global governance institutions and NGOs on climate policy and action. May include attendance at national and/or international climate conferences as part of official IU delegation.
INTL-I 499 Seminar in Conflict Studies
- Credits
- 1–3 credit hours
- Prerequisites
- None
- Description
- Study and analysis of conflicts and conflict resolution around the world through selected case studies.
- Repeatability
- May be repeated with a different topic for a maximum of 3 credit hours.
INTL-L 445 Human Rights Law and International Organizations
- Credits
- 3
- Prerequisites
- None
- Description
- Examines the development, structure, and potential of international human rights laws and the institutions designed to protect them, focusing on the theoretical and practical tools needed to effectively engage with the international human rights legal system.
- Foreign Language. Two (2) foreign language courses at the 200-level or higher
- Internship. One (1) course:
- SGIS-X 373 Internship in Global and International Studies
- ASCS-X 373 Internship: Theory into Practice
- BUS-X 498 Business Internship for Credit
- SPEA-V 381 Professional Experience
SGIS-X 373 Internship in Global and International Studies
- Credits
- 1–3 credit hours
- Prerequisites
- None
- Description
- Provides academic structure to undergraduate students who wish to engage in a work experience through participation in internships domestically or internationally.
- Repeatability
- May be repeated for a maximum of 6 credit hours.
- Grading
- S/F grading.
ASCS-X 373 Internship: Theory into Practice
- Credits
- 1–3 credit hours
- Prerequisites
- Approval of the College of Arts and Sciences Walter Center for Career Achievement
- Description
- Provides opportunity to receive academic credit for a part-time or full-time internship experience that applies classroom concepts to the world of work. Requires a learning contract, employer evaluations, weekly journal, reflective paper, and evaluation of internship site. Offered spring, summer, and fall.
- Repeatability
- May be repeated for a maximum of 6 credit hours.
- Grading
- S/F grading.
BUS-X 498 Business Internship for Credit
- Description
- None
- Additional information
- Credit hour, prerequisite, and other information cannot be displayed for this course. If this is a course outside of the College of Arts and Sciences, please see the appropriate school's bulletin for additional information.
SPEA-V 381 Professional Experience
- Description
- Students will be required to fulfill a minimum of 120 hours of professional relevant work.
- Additional information
- Credit hour, prerequisite, and other information cannot be displayed for this course. If this is a course outside of the College of Arts and Sciences, please see the appropriate school's bulletin for additional information.
- Electives.
- Two (2) courses related to the certificate's goals and Peace Corps Work Sectors from any academic unit, selected from a suggested list of courses in consultation with the certificate coordinator.
- At least one (1) of the above elective courses must be at the 300–499 level.
- Capstone. One (1) course:
- INTL-I 401 Global Service Capstone
INTL-I 401 Global Service Capstone
- Credits
- 1
- Prerequisites
- Global Service and Peace Corps Prep student; and at least junior standing
- Description
- Project or two workshops that captures the student's accumulated knowledge of global service.
- Experiential Learning.
- One (1) of the courses used to fulfill requirements 1–7 above must be officially designated a Service Learning course or be an approved experiential-learning course as determined by the certificate coordinator.
- Certificate GPA, Hours, and Minimum Grade Requirements.
- At least 9 credit hours in the certificate must be completed in courses taken through the Indiana University Bloomington campus or an IU-administered or IU co-sponsored Overseas Study program.
- At least 9 credit hours in the certificate must be completed at the 300–499 level.
- Except for the GPA requirement, a grade of C- or higher is required for a course to count toward a requirement in the certificate.
- A GPA of at least 2.000 for all courses taken in the certificate—including those where a grade lower than C- is earned—is required.
- Exceptions to certificate requirements may be made with the approval of the department's Director of Undergraduate Studies, subject to final approval by the College of Arts and Sciences.