communal and individual rights, and conceptions of justice and moral order. Incorporation of selected readings from Western thought for comparison and contrast. ASIA 460 Independent Study Advanced research in a specific area of Asian studies. Prerequisites: junior or senior status and permission of the Director of International and Area Studies. ASIA 470 and 471 Internship I and II Work experience related to the student’s major, jointly supervised by the instructor and agency personnel. Although the usual internship will carry either three or six hours credit, a student may elect to arrange an internship carrying between two and six hours credit with the permission of the department. Each hour of credit will require forty hours at the internship site. Prerequisite: junior or senior status. Two to six semester hours. Pass-Fail only. ASIA 490 and 491 Honors Thesis I and II Independent research in a special topic for honors. Prerequisites: senior status, GPA of 3.5 in the major and 3.3 overall, and permission of the Director of International and Area Studies.
Undergraduate
• European Studies
EUST 201X Religious Individuals Who Changed History (Religion 201) The lives, times, and influences of religious people who have become agents of social change. Attention to changes in culture, economics, and value systems. EUST 235X Comparative Politics in Western Europe (ie) (Political Science 235) Interaction of history, culture, economy, society, and international environment in shaping contemporary European political systems at the national, regional, and global level. This course satisfies the International Exploration requirement. EUST 333X Geography and Economy of Europe (ie) (Geography 333) Analysis of the economic, political, cultural, and physical systems of Europe. Emphasis on the European Union and its economic policies. Prerequisite: permission of instructor. This course satisfies the International Exploration requirement. EUST 335X Regional and International Implications of the New Europe (Political Science 335) The collapse of Communist East Europe, the rise of the European Union, and the domestic and international implications of the New Europe. National rights and sovereignty in legal, political, and economic terms; integration of the former Communist states into the European Union; relations of the European Union and of member nations to the rest of the world, especially the Middle East, North America, and Asia. EUST 340X History of Political Philosophy (Political Science 340) Major works from the history of political philosophy with emphasis on the development of major ideas in political philosophy, debates between major thinkers, and the relevance of great works of political philosophy to human self-understanding and major political issues of our time.
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