INTERNATIONAL INSTITUTIONS AND WORLD ORDER

Prerequisites & course information

Requisites: Sophomore standing and ( POLI SCI 140 or INTL ST 101 ) or graduate standing Course Designation: Core GenEd - Social & Behavioral Science Breadth - Social Science Level - Intermediate L&S Credit - L&S Liberal Arts and Science Grad 50% - Counts toward 50% graduate coursework requirement Repeatable for Credit: No Last Taught: Spring 2026 Learning Outcomes: 1. Understand the existing logics, theories, concepts, and functions of international institutions. Audience: Undergraduate 2. Analyze the political and legal dimensions of international organizations. Audience: Undergraduate 3. Think critically and theoretically about the dynamic roles of international institutions in world politics that impose consequences on countries and citizens of the world. Audience: Undergraduate 4. Assess the state of a body of scholarly literature related to course themes, identify gaps in that literature, and formulate an original research question in the context of those gaps. Audience: Graduate Learning Outcomes: 1. Understand the existing logics, theories, concepts, and functions of international institutions. Audience: Undergraduate 2. Analyze the political and legal dimensions of international organizations. Audience: Undergraduate 3. Think critically and theoretically about the dynamic roles of international institutions in world politics that impose consequences on countries and citizens of the world. Audience: Undergraduate 4. Assess the state of a body of scholarly literature related to course themes, identify gaps in that literature, and formulate an original research question in the context of those gaps. Audience: Graduate