CM INTERNATIONAL REQUIREMENT

All students in the College of Management will be required to take one (1) course with an explicit, dominant international focus devoted to modern issues (post World War II), meeting at least one (1) of the following guidelines:

1.Promote the student’s knowledge of how to be a manager in an international environment.

2.Enhance a student’s skills for work in a specific foreign country or region.

3.Enhance a student’s understanding of other cultures or economic systems.

Students from a foreign country must select a course which emphasizes a country other than their own or the United States of America.

Below is a listing of appropriate UMass/Boston courses which will fulfill this requirement. The course which a student selects to satisfy the International Management requirement may also be used to fulfill a College of Management General Education, Concentration or an Elective requirement. Students who want to use a course other than one on this list will be required to provide the Undergraduate Program Office with evidence that the course meets the requirement.

Anthropology
271 Peoples and Cultures of the Middle East*
272 Peoples and Cultures of Africa*
273 Peoples and Cultures of MesoAmerica*
274 Peoples and Cultures of the Caribbean

Africana Studies
330 Politics in Southern Africa

East Asian Studies
161L East Asian Civilization II*

Earth & Geographical Sciences
251 Geography of Latin America
253 Geography of the Middle East and Northern Africa
280 Economic Geography
298 Pacific Rim Geography
352 Political Geography

Economics
335 International Finance
336 Economic Development
338 The Latin American Economy*
372 Comparative Economic Systems
435 The Multinational Corporation

Foreign Languages
All Foreign Languages at or above the Intermediate Level

History
114 Modern World History II*
161L East Asian Civilizations II*
316 Europe in the 20th Century II (1945-Present)
352 Topics in African Civilization
367 Modern South Africa
428 The Germans Since 1945
451 Modernization, Nationalism and Revolution in the Middle East II
465 Twentieth Century Vietnam

International Relations
355L The European Union
480 The Political Economy of International Trade

Latin America Studies
101 Culture & Society in Contemporary Latin America
290 Central America: Society and Culture*
302 Puerto Rico: Economic, Political, and Social Issues
303 History of Reform and Revolution in Latin America*

Management
434 Managing in a Global Environment

Marketing
430 International Marketing

Modern Languages
200 Europe Today*

Political Science
201 Comparative Politics of Industrialized Societies
202 Comparative Politics of Transitional Societies*
220 International Relations*
354 Postwar European Problems
355L The European Union
360 Government and Politics of Britain
361 Politics of Eastern Europe
363 Politics and Society in Present Day Russia
371 Latin American Politics
372 Central American Politics
375 Third World Development*
387 Government and Politics of China
391 Government and Politics of Africa
410 The Politics of International Economic Relations
412 International Organizations II
415 Law and International Relations
435 Business and Government in Europe

Sociology
220 A Survey of Asian Societies: China and Japan*
272 Social Change in the Third World
355L Gender, Development and Globalization*

Womens Studies
355L Women in Third World Development*

*These courses fulfill both the International and the Diversity Requirement

To see the current list of courses that meet the Diversity Requirement click here.

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