The Department offers an undergraduate Minor in International Relations to those students of the university who are pursuing undergraduate majors in other disciplines.
Key Information
The Minor comprises a rigorous exposure to the essentials of International Relations (IR). It familiarizes students with the fundamentals of IR as a discipline and offers skills of analyis and writing on issues within the field. Students take the same courses as are offered as part of the Major in IR to the Departmental students and they go through the same assessement process.
To earn the Minor, a student must complete a total of 6 (six) courses offered by the Department as part of the IR Major. Two of the 6 completed should be INT101 (offered in Monsoon) and INT105 (offered in Spring). The list of courses on offer in Spring 2021 is as follows:
Core
INT 103 India in World Affairs
INT 104 International Organizations and Global Governance
INT 105 Theorizing International Relations
INT 204 International Security
INT 205 Science, Technology and International Relations
INT 301 International Law and World Politics
Major Electives/UWEs
INT 244 Political Ideologies II
INT 248 China and the Global Political Economy
INT 258 Contemporary Political Philosophy
INT 348 When the Street Shakes the World: Popular Protests and International Politics
INT 350 Islam and Global Politics