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Economics Core Requirement

  • STA 296 Statistical Methods and Motivations
  • ECO 201 Principles of Economics I
  • ECO 202 Principles of Economics II
  • ECO 391 Economic and Business Statistics
  • ECO 401 Intermediate Microeconomic Theory
  • ECO 402 Intermediate Macroeconomic Theory
  • ECO 300+ Any 300+ level ECO course

Plus two of the following: 

  • ECO 471 International Trade
  • ECO 472 International Monetary Economics
  • ECO 473G Economic Development
  • ECO 379 (economics of Public Policy)
  • ECO 430G (Cost Benefit Analysis)
  • ECO 491G (Econometrics)
  • ECO 450G (Poverty and Inequality)

Intercultural Core Requirement:

  • MCL/SPA 300 Contact Zones: Cultivating Intercultural Competence


Arabic Language Curriculum for FLIE Majors Track Requirements

  • AIS 202 Intermediate Modern Standard Arabic (3)
  • AIS 311 Business Arabic (3)
  • AIS 301 Colloquial Arabic I (3)
  • MCL/SPA 300 Contact Zones (3)

Arabic Core Hours (12)

Other Course Work Required for the Major

Choose at least 12 hours of Arabic courses from the following:

  • AIS 302 Colloquial Arabic II (3)
  • AIS 401 Advanced Modern Standard Arabic (3)
  • AIS 442 Arabic Reading I (3)
  • AIS 443 Arabic Reading II (3)
  • AIS 328 Islamic Civilization I (3)
  • AIS 330 Islamic Civilization II (3)
  • AIS 338 Women in Islam (3)
  • AIS 435 Topics: Modern Arabic Literature and Film (3)


Chinese Language Curriculum for FLIE Majors

  • CHI 301: Advanced Intermediate Chinese (3)
  • CHI 302: Advanced Intermediate Chinese (3)
  • CHI 331: Intro to Chines Culture since 1840 (3)
  • MCL/SPA 300: Contact Zones (3)

Other Course Work Required for the Major

12 hours drawn from the following list:

  • CHI 310: Sounds of East Asian Languages (3)
  • CHI 320: Gender Politics in Chinese Lit. (3)
  • CHI 321: Intro to Cont. Chinese Film (3)
  • CHI 322: Self and Society in Chinese Cult. (3)
  • CHI 323: Chinese Drama (3)
  • CHI 330: Intro to Chinese culture to 1840 (3)
  • CHI 333: Chinese Short Stories (3)
  • CHI 345: Early Chinese Thought (3)
  • CHI 395: Ind. Study (variable credit)
  • CHI 401: Advanced Chinese (3)
  • CHI 402: Advanced Chinese (3)
  • CHI 430: Pop. Culture in Mod. China (3)
  • CHI 450: Daoism, East and West (3)
  • CHI 495G: Advanced Independent Work in Chinese (1-3)
  • CHI 511: Literary Chinese (3)
  • CHI 520: Chinese Linguistics (3)
  • A-H 415G: Top. in Asian Art History* (3)
  • HIS 355: Non-West. History since 1789* (3)
  • HIS 597: Uses of the Past in Mod. China (3)
  • HIS 598: Emergence of Mod. China (3)
  • A&S 300: Special Top. Course* (3)
  • MCL 375: Language Study Abroad (1-3)
  • MCL 376: Cultural Studies Abroad (1-3)
  • MCL 390 002 Popular Culture in Modern East Asia (3)
  • MCL 390 003 Traditional Chinese Medicine (3)
  • MCL 595 The White Snake (3)


French Language Curriculum for FLIE Majors

  • FR 204: Introduction to French and Francophone Studies (prereq FR 202) (3)
  • FR 214: France Today (prereq FR 202) (3) or FR 215: Visual Cultures (prereq FR 202) (3)
  • FR 307: French for Business and Economics (3) 

Other Course Work Required for the Major

Twelve hours from the following courses (prereq FR 204 for all 300-level courses):

  • FR 310: French Phonetics (3)
  • FR 311: Introduction to French Linguistics (3)
  • FR 324: Studies in French Literature (Subtitle required) (3)
  • FR 325: Le cinéma français (Subtitle required) (3)
  • FR 344: The Literary Text (Subtitle required) (3)
  • FR 350: Francophone Cultures (Subtitle required) (3)
  • FR 410: French in Performance (3)
  • FR 425: Media Studies (3) (Prereq for FR 410 and 425: completion of 6 hrs of 300-level or above French coursework)
  • FR 470G: Topical Seminar I (Subtitle required) (3)
  • FR 471G: Topical Seminar II (Subtitle required) (3) (Prereq for FR 470G and 471G: completion of 9 hrs of 300-level or above French coursework)


German Language Curriculum for FLIE Students

  • GER 206 Spoken Communication (3)
  • GER 307 Intermediate German Composition and Conversation I (3)
  • GER 310 German for International Business and Professions (3) 

Other Course Work Required for the Major

12 hours from the following list:

  • GER 308 Intermediate German Composition and Conversation II (3)
  • GER 311 Introduction to German Literature: Themes (Subtitle required) (3)
  • GER 312 Introduction to German Literature: Popular Forms (3)
  • GER 317 History of German Culture (3)
  • GER 319 Contemporary German Literature and Culture (3)
  • GER 342 War, Peace and Terror: Germany and Europe (3)
  • GER 352 German-speaking Europe (Subtitle required) (3)
  • GER 361 German Cinema (3)
  • GER 363 Germanic Mythology (3)
  • GER 395 Independent Work in German (1-3)
  • GER 415G Major German Authors (Subtitle required) (3)
  • GER 416G Genres of German Literature (3)
  • GER 420G Special Studies in German Literary and Cultural History (Subtitle required) (3)
  • GER 507 Advanced German Composition and Conversation (3)


Italian Language Curriculum for FLIE Students

  • ITA 263 Studies in Italian Culture (Subtitle required) (3)
  • ITA 300 Italian Conversation and Writing (3)
  • ITA 301 Italy from Fascismo to the Present (3)
  • ITA 335 Topics in the Italian Cinema (Subtitled required) (3) 

Other Course Work Required for the Major

9 hours from the following:

  • ITA 263 Studies in Italian Culture (Subtitle required) (3)
  • A&S 300 Special Course (Subtitle required): Italian Language through Film (3)
  • ITA 335 Topics in the Italian Cinema (Subtitle required) (3)
  • ITA 395 Independent Studies in Italian (3)
  • ITA 410G Special Topics in Italian Language (Subtitle required) (3)
  • ITA 417 Advanced Italian Language (3)
  • ITA 443G Survey of Italian Literature I (3)
  • ITA 563 Studies in Dante (3)
  • ITA 566 Literature of the Italian Renaissance
  • ITA 569 Topics in Italian Language, Literature, or Culture (Subtitle required) (3)
  • A-H / CLA 314 Ancient (Subtitle required) (3)
  • A-H 334 Reframing Renaissance Art (3)
  • A-H 335 Early Modern Art and Visual Culture, 1400-1700 (Subtitle required) (3)
  • CLA / HIS 391 Christians in the Roman Empire (3)
  • HIS 502 A History of the Roman Republic (3)
  • HIS 503 A History of the Roman Empire (3)
  • HIS 509 Roman Law (3)
  • HIS 519 The Era of the Renaissance (3)


Japanese Language Curriculum for FLIE Majors

FLIE Japanese Core Requirement:

  • JPN 301 Advanced Japanese I (3)
  • JPN 302 Advanced Japanese II (3)

plus one of the following modern Japanese cultural-social studies courses:

  • JPN 321 Introduction to Japanese Culture, Meiji (1868) to Present (3)
  • JPN 334 Environment, Society and Economy of Japan (3)
  • JPN 351 The Japanese Experience of the Twentieth Century (3)
  • HIS 357 Japan at War, 1850 to the Present 

Other Course Work Required for the Major

12 hours from the following:

  • JPN 300+ courses (3)
  • JPN 283 - JAPANESE FILM (3)
  • A-H 310 - ASIAN ART & CTULRUE (SUBTITLE REQUIRED) (3)
  • A-H 311 - ARTS AS SOFT POWER: JAPANESE TEA CEREMONY (3)
  • GEO 333 Geography of East Asia (3)
  • HIS 295 - EAST ASIA TO 1600 (3)
  • HIS 296 - EAST ASIA SINCE 1600 (3)
  • HIS 356: Women in Modern Japan (3)
  • HIS 357 - JAPAN AT WAR, 1850 TO THE PRESENT (3)
  • HIS 358: Asians in America (3)
  • MCL283: Introduction to East Asian Film (3)
  • MCL 345: Food and Society in Asia (3)


Russian Curriculum for FLIE Students

  • RUS 301 Conversation and Composition I (3)
  • RUS 302 Advanced Intermediate Russian II (3)
  • RUS 372 Experiments in Life and Art: Russian Culture 1900-Present (3)

Other Course Work Required for the Major

12 hours from the following:

  • ANT 329 Cultures and Societies of Eurasia and Eastern Europe: Socialism and Post-Socialist Change (3)
  • ANT 432 Anthropology of Eastern Europe and Russia (3)
  • HIS 385 History of Russia to 1825 (3)
  • HIS 386 History of Russia Since 1825 (3)
  • HIS 534 Russia in the 19th Century (3)
  • HIS 535 Russia in the 20th Century (3)
  • HIS 536 Intellectual and Cultural History of Russia to1800 (3)
  • HIS 537 Intellectual and Cultural History of Russia from 1800 to the Present (3)
  • MCL 375 Language Study Abroad (1-3)
  • MCL 376 Cultural Studies Abroad (1-3)
  • RUS 275 Russian Film (3)
  • RUS 370 Folklore of Russia and Ukraine (in English) (3)
  • RUS 371 The Russian Cultural Imagination: 900-1900 (3)
  • RUS 380 Love and Death in 19th-Century Russian Literature (3)
  • RUS 381 Writing Revolution and Reaction in Modern Russian Literature (3)
  • RUS 401 Advanced Russian (3)
  • RUS 402 Advanced Russian (3)
  • RUS 410G Russian for Special Purposes (Subtitle required) (3)
  • RUS 420G Readings in Russian Literature & Culture (Subtitle required) (3)
  • RUS 525 Russian Literary Studies (Subtitle required) (3)
  • RUS 535 Russian Visual Studies (Subtitle required) (3)
  • RUS 545 Russian Cultural Studies (Subtitle required) (3)
  • RUS 555 Topical Seminar on Russian Studies (Subtitle required) (3)

Russian Core hours (21)


Spanish Language Curriculum for FLIE Majors who declared before Fall 2016

Core Requirements: (12 credits)

  • SPA 302 Spanish for Business Professionals
  • SPA 310 Spanish Composition through Textual Analysis
  • SPA 332 Spanish and Latin American Business Environments
  • SPA 420 Spanish in the World

Other Course Work Required for the Major

3 of the following: (9 credits)

  • SPA 312 Civilization of Spain
  • SPA 313 Advanced Spanish Language
  • SPA 314 Civilization of Spanish American
  • SPA 323 Introduction to Spanish Translation
  • SPA 350 Hispanic Cities (Subtitle required
  • SPA 371 Latin American Cinema (Subtitle required)
  • SPA 372 Spanish Cinema (Subtitle required)
  • SPA 397 Independent Work in Spanish
  • SPA 399 Field Based/Community Based Education

+ Any 400+level SPA course