International Affairs

Three courses from the existing selection of courses in International Affairs offered at Howard University (please contact individual departments for further information). Of these, two shall be from the student's primary/or one discipline to satisfy the depth requirement and one from a separate discipline to meet the breadth requirement .

This is an introductory course to the history of the Middle East in the "long Twentieth century," from the end of the 19th century until the present. The goal of this course is to introduce students to major political, social, intellectual and cultural issues and practices in the Middle East, focusing on important events, movements and ideas, which shaped the history of the Middle East during the last century and affect its current realities.

A mandatory capstone course in which the student must present in written and oral forms the results of a research project or internship that integrates the knowledge gained in all prior courses. The internship is to be 200 hours with an agency that deals with international issues.

This course explores how modern diplomacy and negotiation can effectively address seemingly "intractable" international conflicts and overcome barriers to agreement in civil wars, interstate conflicts, as well as in trade and finance. Drawing on in-depth cases, the course will develop diagnostic and prescriptive characteristics of effective negotiation and diplomacy as tools of political, military, economic and financial statecraft.