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Nov 21, 2024
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2024-2025 Undergraduate Course Catalog
Global Security Studies Minor
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The minor in Global Security Studies (GSS) is an interdisciplinary program designed to help students explore the global, international, national, and human dimensions of security, conflict, and conflict resolution in contemporary international relations using the analytic tools provided in different social science disciplines. The minor is administered by the International Relations Program and is open to all Syracuse University undergraduate students in good academic standing.
International relations majors whose topic concentration is international security and diplomacy (ISD) are not eligible to take the Global Security Studies minor. In addition, for students majoring in International Relations who wish to undertake the Global Security Studies minor, a maximum of three (3) lower division (below 300 level) credits may be shared between the major and the minor.
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Minor Requirements
In order to declare the minor, a student must receive a B grade or better in one of the two required lower division courses. The Global Security minor consists of six (6) courses, eighteen (18) credits. Minors must complete
Two (2) required introductory-level courses (6 credits)
- either PSC 124 - International Relations (or PSC 139 Honors section) or HST 122 - Global History 1750 to Present to contextualize state security issues, and
- either ANT 185 - Global Encounters:Comparing World Views & Values Cross-Culturally or GEO 171 - Human Geographies to highlight human and environmental security issues, plus
An additional 12 credits in courses numbered 300 or above in one of the following 2 tracks: - Traditional state security and human and environmental security tracks:
(2) courses from List A (6 credits) and (2) courses from List B (6 credits) OR
- Intelligence and Analysis Track
(4) courses from List C (12 credits) List A: Traditional Issues of State Security
List B: Human and Environmental Security
List C: Intelligence and Analysis
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