MCCCD Program Description

Major: 6213N Catalog Year: 2024-2025 Effective Term: 2014 Fall Last Admit Term: 9999 Award: AC Total Credits: 12-13 CIP Code: 30.2001	Primary College: Initiating College: Phoenix College Program Availability: Not Found Program Availability: College-Specific Program Availability: PC Field of Interest: Culture and Society Instructional Council: Vice Presidents for Academic Affairs (72) GPA: 2.0
SOC Code: 19-3094

Description: The Academic Certificate (AC) in International Studies program will provide students the opportunity to broaden their horizons and their understanding of our increasingly interdependent global society. The Certificate approaches broad cultural issues and includes a strong emphasis on world politics and religions. It also includes developing proficiency in cross-cultural communications and the capacity to navigate world cultures. Proficiency in a modern language is also an integral part of the Certificate.

Required Courses

REL100 World Religions 3
POS120 World Politics 3
POS140 Comparative Government (3) OR
POS210 Political Ideologies (3) 3

Credits: 9

Restricted Electives
ASB102 Introduction to Cultural Anthropology 3 HIS102 History of Western Civilization 1789 to Present 3 SPH245 Hispanic Heritage in the Southwest 3 Any of the following Foreign Language courses: FRE+++ Any FRE/French course (101, 201) (4) OR ITA+++ Any ITA/Italian course (101, 201) (4) OR JPN+++ Any JPN/Japanese course (101, 201) (4) OR NAV+++ Any NAV/Navajo course (101, 201) (4) OR SPA+++ Any SPA/Spanish course (101, 201) (4) 4	Credits: 3-4

General Electives
	Credits: 0

Program Competencies
1. Describe the influence of world religions on social, economic, and political developments. (REL100) 2. Describe similarities and differences among the beliefs, traditions, and practices of major world religions. (REL100) 3. Delineate the historical development of interstate relations and the place of the nation-state in that development while describing relevant issues such as national security, war, economic integration, trade, etc. (POS120) 4. Distinguish, define, and depict the chief characteristics of the three levels of analysis--individual, state, and international systems--and the method of arriving at policy choice decisions. (POS120) 5. Describe the differences between policy-making framework and motives inherent in the approaches of realism versus idealism. (POS120) 6. Differentiate and make connections between economic and political issues and questions that affect world politics, and list the various analytical and theoretical positions used to explain world politics. (POS120, POS140, POS210) 7. Describe the issue of change in the international environment and those forces that may initiate their change, including the distinction between an international current event and a current international issue. (POS120, POS140, POS210) 8. Describe the differences in political economic terms among neomercantilism, liberalism, and socialism. (POS120, POS140, POS210) 9. Distinguish comparative methodologies developed to compare various political systems of government, including unitary, federal, and confederal government models. (POS120, POS140, POS210) 10. Compare the election practices in a selected democratic or open society with those of a non-democratic or closed society. (POS120, POS140, POS210) 11. Compare and contrast open and closed nations relative to the organization of their executive systems and relative to the operational characteristics of their representative assemblies. (POS140, POS210) 12. List major components of justice found in open societies, and state how they differ from practices of justice in closed societies. (POS140, POS210)
+ indicates course has prerequisites and/or corequisites. ++ indicates that any suffixed course may be selected. MCCCD Governing Board Approval Date: April 26, 2011

All information published is subject to change without notice. Every effort has been made to ensure the accuracy of information presented, but based on the dynamic nature of the curricular process, course and program information is subject to change in order to reflect the most current information available.