IR List – Look-up by Course

Is there a course you are interested in taking but you don’t know which list it falls under? Browse courses by subject below to find out which list they are on.

***Please note that not all courses are offered every session. Please refer to the course timetable for current offerings.***

AFST – African Studies
ANTH – Anthropology
APSC – Applied Science
ASIA – Asian Studies
CENS – Central, Eastern, and Northern European Studies
ECON – Economics
EOSC – Earth and Ocean Sciences
FNH – Food, Nutrition and Health
FRE – Food and Resource Economics
FRST – Forestry
GEOG – Geography
GRSJ – Gender, Race, Sexuality and Social Justice

HIST – History
ITST – Italian Studies
KIN – Kinesiology

MES – Middle East Studies
LAST – Latin American Studies
PHIL – Philosophy
POLI – Political Science

PPGA – Public Policy and Global Affairs

SOCI – Sociology
SPPH – School of Population and Public Health

Code Subject Course Credits Course Name List Pre-requ
AFST African Studies 351 3 Perspectives in African Studies: Literary and Theoretical Approaches List C y
AFST African Studies 352 3 Perspectives in African Studies: A Social Science Approach List C y
AFST African Studies 450 3 African Diasporic Culture in African Canadian Communities List C n
ANTH Anthropology 301 3 Ethnography of Eurasia List C y
ANTH Anthropology 302 3 Ethnography of South Asia List C y
ANTH Anthropology 303 3 Ethnography of Special Areas List C y
ANTH Anthropology 304 3 Ethnography of the Northwest Coast List C y
ANTH Anthropology 307 3 Ethnography of Korea List C y
ANTH Anthropology 308 3 Ethnography of Sub-Saharan Africa List C y
ANTH Anthropology 315 3 Japanese Culture and Society List C y
ANTH Anthropology 330 3 Anthropology of Rural Peoples and the Global Economy List B y
ANTH Anthropology 350 3 Ethnography of the Pacific Islands: Polynesia and Micronesia List C y
ANTH Anthropology 351 3 Ethnography of the Pacific Islands: Melanesia List C y
ANTH Anthropology 353 3 Ethnography of Latin America List C y
ANTH Anthropology 360 3 Introduction to Ecological Anthropology List B y
ANTH Anthropology 401 3 First Peoples of North America List C y
ANTH Anthropology 402 3 Ethnography of  China List C y
ANTH Anthropology 403 3 Ethnography of  Special Areas List C y
ANTH Anthropology 404 3 Ethnography in Circumpolar North: Comparative Perspectives List C y
ANTH Anthropology 414 3 Anthropology of Globalization List C y
ANTH Anthropology 416 3 The Ethnography of Japan List C y
ANTH Anthropology 423 3 Ethnography of East Africa and the Swahili Coast List C y
ANTH Anthropology 472 3 Anthropological Study of Social Inequality List B y
APSC Applied Science 377 3 Nuclear Weapons and Arms Control List A y
ASIA Asian Studies 309 3 South Asians Beyond South Asia List C n
ASIA Asian Studies 310 3 Studies in the History of  a Major Asian Civilization List C n
ASIA Asian Studies 313 3 Tibetan and Himalayan Culture and Society List C n
ASIA Asian Studies 315 3 Japan from Feudal to Modern State List C n
ASIA Asian Studies 319 3 History of Indonesian Civilization List C n
ASIA Asian Studies 330 3 Islam in South Asia List C n
ASIA Asian Studies 333 3

Issues in Contemporary South Asian Women’s, Gender and Sexuality Studies

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ASIA Asian Studies 337 3 The Korean People in Modern Times (1600 to the present) List C n
ASIA Asian Studies 338 3 Modern India: From Conquest to Raj List C n
ASIA Asian Studies 339 3 The Construction of South Asian Communities in the Diaspora List C y
ASIA Asian Studies 390 3 History of the Indian Ocean World List C n
ASIA Asian Studies 393 3 History of Iran from the Sasanians to the Safavids List C n
ASIA Asian Studies 410 3 International Relations in Pre-modern East Asia List A n
ASIA Asian Studies 418 3 Social History of India List C n
ASIA Asian Studies 430 3 International Relations in Modern East Asia: Korea and Japan List A n
ASIA Asian Studies 434 6 History of South East Asia since 1800 List C n
ASIA Asian Studies 438 3 Twentieth Century South Asia List C n
ASIA Asian Studies 456 3 History and Culture of Taiwan List C n
ASIA Asian Studies 484 3  The History of the Choson Dynasty List C n
CENS Central, Eastern and Northern European Studies 303 3 Representations of the Holocaust List C  n
CENS Central, Eastern and Northern European Studies 404 3 Gender and Nation: Women’s State in Modern Central, Eastern and Northern European Literatures and Culture List C n
ECON Economics 312 3 Political Economy of Capitalism List B y
ECON Economics 313 3 Marxist Economics List B y
ECON Economics 317 3 Poverty and Inequality List B y
ECON Economics 318 3 History and Philosophy of Economics from Aristotle to Adam Smith List B y
ECON Economics 319 6 History and Philosophy of Economics from Ricardo to Keynes List B y
ECON Economics 334 3 Economic History of Modern Europe List B y
ECON Economics 335 3 Fertility, Families and Human Migration List B y
ECON Economics 336 3 Economic History of Canada List C y
ECON Economics 337 3 Economic History of the United States List C y
ECON Economics 339 3 Economics of Technological Change List B y
ECON Economics 341 3 Economic Development of Asia List B y
ECON Economics 342 3 The Economy of China Since 1949 List B y
ECON Economics 343 3 The Economic Development of Modern Japan List B y
ECON Economics 351 3 Women in the Economy List B y
ECON Economics 355 3 Introduction to International Trade List B y
ECON Economics 356 3 Introduction to International Finance List B y
ECON Economics 371 3 Economics of the Environment List B y
ECON Economics 374 3 Land Economics List B y
ECON Economics 387 3 Economic Reform and Transition List B y
ECON Economics 441 3 The Process of Economic Development List B y
ECON Economics 442 3 Issues in Economic Development List B y
ECON Economics 444 3 The Contemporary Japanese Economy List B y
ECON Economics 455 3 International Trade* Credit can only be granted for one of Econ 355, 455 List B y
ECON Economics 456 3 International Macroeconomics and Finance List B y
ECON Economics 471 3 Economics of Nonrenewable Resources List B y
ECON Economics 472 3 Economics of Renewable Resources List B y
ECON Economics 485 3 Political Economy List A y
ECON Economics 487 3 Comparative Economic Systems List B y
EOSC Earth and Ocean Sciences 340 3 Global Climate Change List A y
FNH Food, Nutrition and Health 355 3 International Nutrition List B n
FNH Food, Nutrition and Health 455 3 Applied International Nutrition List B y
FNH Food, Nutrition and Health 460 3 International Nutrition Field Studies List C y
FRE Food and Resource Economics 306 3 Introduction to Global Food Markets List B y
FRE Food and Resource Economics 340 3 International Agricultural Development List B y
FRE Food and Resource Economics 374 3 Land and Resource Economics List B y
FRE Food and Resource Economics 420 3 The Economics of International Trade and the Environment List B y
FRST Forestry 411 3 Complex Adaptive Systems, Global Change Science, and Ecology Sustainability List B n
FRST Forestry 439 3 International Forestry List B y
GEOG Geography 302 3 Climate Justice List A n
GEOG Geography 310 3 Environment and Sustainability List B y
GEOG Geography 311 3 Urban Environments List B n
GEOG Geography 312 3 Climate Change: Science and Society List B y
GEOG Geography 316 3 Geography of Natural Hazards List A y
GEOG Geography 318 3 Sustainability in a Changing Environment List B y
GEOG Geography 321 3 Historical Geography of Urbanization: Cities, Space, and Power List B n
GEOG Geography 327 3 Creating Canada List B n
GEOG Geography 329 3 Political Geography List A n
GEOG Geography 350 3 Urban Worlds List C n
GEOG Geography 352 3 Urbanization in the Global South List B n
GEOG Geography 353 3 Geographies of Migration and Settlement List B n
GEOG Geography 357 3 Society, Culture, and Space List A n
GEOG Geography 361 3 Introduction to Economic Geography List B y
GEOG Geography 362 3 Geography of Economic Development List B y
GEOG Geography 364 3 Globalization, Cities, and Regions List B y
GEOG Geography 380 3 Geography of Asia List C n
GEOG Geography 390 3 Geography of Selected Regions List C n
GEOG Geography 391 3 Modern Europe: Places and Borders List C n
GEOG Geography 395 3 Culture, Nature, and Coloniality in Latin America List C n
GEOG Geography 410 3 Environment and Society List B y
GEOG Geography 423 3 Development of Environmental Thought List B y
GEOG Geography 424 3 Feminist Geographies List B y
GEOG Geography 457 3 Social and Behavioural Geography List B y
GEOG Geography 461 3 Political-Economic Geographies Varies y
GEOG Geography 481 3 Geography of Japan List C y
GEOG Geography 484 3 Geography of Southeast Asia List C y
GEOG Geography 485 3 Geography of China List C y
GEOG Geography 493 3 Contemporary Europe: Identity and Geopolitics List C y
GEOG Geography 496 3 Geography of Africa List B or C y
GEOG Geography 497 3 The Arctic List C n
GEOG Geography 498 3 Geographies of the Middle East List C n
GRSJ Gender, Race, Sexuality and Social Justice 305 3 Social Justice Issues in Community and International Organizing List A n
GRSJ Gender, Race, Sexuality and Social Justice 306 3 Globalization and Social Justice: Gender, Race, and Sexuality in International Politics List B y
GRSJ Gender, Race, Sexuality and Social Justice 311 3 African/Black Women in the Americas List C n
GRSJ Gender, Race, Sexuality and Social Justice 326* 3 The Politics of Gender, Families, and Nation-Building

*Please note this course is currently restricted to GRSJ majors so few spots are available for IR students.

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HIST History 302 6 History of the Indigenous Peoples of North America List C n
HIST History 309 3 Topics in Sub-Saharan African History List C n
HIST History 310 3 The British Empire to 1850 List A n
HIST History 311 3 The British Empire after 1850 List A n
HIST History 312 3 Southern Africa List C n
HIST History 313 3 Africa from Imperialism to Independence List C n
HIST History 315 3 Britain 1750-1850 List C n
HIST History 318 3 Early Twentieth-Century Britain List C n
HIST History 319 3 Britain, 1945 to the Present List C n
HIST History 323 3 Empires, Wars, and Revolutions in Europe and the Americas,1763-1838 List C n
HIST History 325 3 Canada 1896-1945: Boom, Bust and War List C n
HIST History 327 3 Colonial America: Encounter and Settlement, 1607-1763 List C n
HIST History 330 3 History of the Global Financial Order List B n
HIST History 334 3 Senegambia to South Carolina, Ghana to Georgia: African-American History, 1450 – 1850 List C n
HIST History 338 3 American Modernity: The United States, 1890-1945 List C n
HIST History 339 3 The United States Since 1945: The Limits of Power List C n
HIST History 346 6 France Since the Revolution List C n
HIST History 349 3 Imperial Russian History, 1800 to 1917 List C n
HIST History 350 6 The Soviet Union List C n
HIST History 351 6 East Central Europe in the 19th and 20th Centuries List C n
HIST History 352 3 Modern Middle Eastern History List C n
HIST History 354 3 The Ottoman Empire List C n
HIST History 355 3 Nineteenth Century Germany List C n
HIST History 356 3 Twentieth-Century Germany List C n
HIST History 357 3 History of Mexico List C n
HIST History 358 3 State and Society in 20th century Cuba List C n
HIST History 366 3 Europe During the Reformation List C n
HIST History 368 3 Europe in the 19th Century List C n
HIST History 369 3 Europe, 1900 – 1950 List C n
HIST History 370 3 Europe Since 1950 List C n
HIST History 373 3 History of Hong Kong List C n
HIST History 376 6 Modern Japanese History Since 1800 List C n
HIST History 380 3 The Making of Modern China: Nationalism, War, Revolution List C n
HIST History 381 3 Imperialism and Nationalism in Southeast Asia List C n
HIST History 382 3 Post-Colonial Southeast Asia List C n
HIST History 385 3 India from Raj to Republic List C n
HIST History 386 3 Korea since 1860 List C n
HIST History 388 3 India in the Early Modern World: Mughals, Merchants, and Marauders List C n
HIST History 391 3  Human Rights in World History List A
HIST History 395 3 The Nuclear Century: Scientists, Atoms, and the World Order Since 1900 List A n
HIST History 396 3 Environmental History of North America List C n
HIST History 401 3 Seafaring in the Age of Sail List C n
HIST History 402 3 Problems in International Relations List A n
HIST History 405 3 Diplomacy and Conflict in the Middle East, 1914 to the Present List A n
HIST History 408 3 U.S. Foreign Relations from Independence to World War II List A n
HIST History 409 3 U.S. Foreign Relations since 1945 List A n
HIST History 411 6 Development of Canadian External Policy Since Confederation List C n
HIST History 412 6 The American Impact on Canada List C n
HIST History 418 3 The 1960s in Global Perspective List A n
HIST History 423 3 Economic and Business History of Modern Japan List B n
HIST History 425 6 War and Society List A n
HIST History 432 6 International Relations of the Great Powers in the Twentieth Century List A n
HIST History 439 3 Politics and Culture in Fin-de-Siècle Europe (1890-1914) List C n
HIST History 441 3 History of the Holocaust List A n
HIST History 444 3 Slave Societies in the Americas List C n
HIST History 450 3 Selected Topics in Latin American History List C n
HIST History 451 3 Family and Community in Latin America List C n
HIST History 453 3 Class and Culture in Latin America List C n
HIST History 456 3 Race in the Americas List C n
HIST History 460 3 Revolution and Resistance in the Third World List A n
HIST History 464 3 First Contacts in the Pacific List C n
HIST History 467 3 Topics in Indigenous History of the United States List C n
HIST History 468 3 Topics in Comparative Indigenous History List C n
HIST History 469 3 Aboriginal Title in British Columbia: History and Legacy List C n
HIST History 480 6 Social History of Modern China List C n
HIST History 482 3 Chinese Migration List C n
HIST History 483 3 Asian Migrations to the Americas List C n
HIST History 484 3 East Asian Military Systems and Warfare China List A n
HIST History 485 3 Asian Migrant Communities in Vancouver List C n
ITST Italian Studies 345 3 Italian Fascism in Interdisciplinary Perspective List C n
KIN Kinesiology 360 3 Sport, Peace, and Conflict List A y
KIN Kinesiology 364 3 The Modern Olympics: Power, Politics, and Performance List C n
LAST Latin American Studies 301 3 Human and Civil Rights in Latin America List C n
LAST Latin American Studies 303 3 Indigenous Peoples of Latin America List C n
MES Middle East Studies 300 3 The Middle East: Critical Question and Debates List C n
PHIL Philosophy 332 3 Environmental Ethics List B n
PHIL Philosophy 335 3 Power and Oppression List B n
PHIL Philosophy 362 3 History and Philosophy of Economics from Aristotle to Adam Smith List B n
PHIL Philosophy 363 3 History and Philosophy of Economics from Ricardo to Keynes List B n
POLI Political Science 309 3 Canadian Perspectives on Human Rights List C y
POLI Political Science 316 3 Global Indigenous Politics List B n
POLI Political Science 320 3 Government and Politics of the United States of America List C n
POLI Political Science 321 3 Chinese Politics and Development List C n
POLI Political Science 322 3 Japanese Government and Politics List C n
POLI Political Science 323 3 South Asian Government and Politics List C n
POLI Political Science 324 3 Southeast Asian Government and Politics List C n
POLI Political Science 325 3 Communist and Post-Communist Politics List C n
POLI Political Science 326 3 European Politics: Selected Cases List C n
POLI Political Science 327 3 European Integration List C n
POLI Political Science 328 3 Topics in Comparative Politics Varies n
POLI Political Science 329 3 Gender and Politics List A n
POLI Political Science 330 3 Japanese Political Economy List C n
POLI Political Science 332 3 Politics and Government of Latin America List C n
POLI Political Science 333 3 Issues in Comparative Politics Varies n
POLI Political Science 334 3 Comparative Democratization List A n
POLI Political Science 335 3 Comparative Federalism List C n
POLI Political Science 336 3 Associations and the State in Comparative Perspective List C n
POLI Political Science 338 3 Politics and Development List B n
POLI Political Science 351 3 Environmental Politics and Policy List A n
POLI Political Science 360 3 Security Studies List A n
POLI Political Science 361 3 International Violence and Its Control List A n
POLI Political Science 362 3 The Great Powers and International Politics List A n
POLI Political Science 363 3 Canadian Foreign Policy List A n
POLI Political Science 364 3 International Organization List A or B n
POLI Political Science 365 3 Asian International Relations List C n
POLI Political Science 366 3 International Political Economy List B n
POLI Political Science 367 3 International Relations Theory and the International System List A n
POLI Political Science 368 3 Japan’s Foreign Relations List C n
POLI Political Science 369 3 Issues in International Security List A n
POLI Political Science 370 3 Issues in International Conflict Management List A n
POLI Political Science 371 3 Humanitarian Engineering: Politics and Practice List B n
POLI Political Science 372 3 Multinational Corporations and Globalization List B n
POLI Political Science 373 3 Ethics in World Politics List A n
POLI Political Science 374 3 International Peace Keeping List A n
POLI Political Science 375 3 Global Environmental Politics List B n
POLI Political Science 376 3 International Law List A n
POLI Political Science 377 3 Nuclear Weapons and Arms Control List A n
POLI Political Science 378 3 The Politics of Terrorism List A n
POLI Political Science 379 3 China in World Politics List C n
PPGA Public Policy and Global Affairs 391 3 Topics in Public Policy and Global Affairs List A n
SOCI Sociology 301 3 Sociology of Development and Underdevelopment List B y
SOCI Sociology 303 3 Sociology of Migration List C y
SOCI Sociology 360 3 Sociology and Natural Resources List B y
SOCI Sociology 361 3 Social Inequality List B y
SOCI Sociology 420 3 Sociology of the Environment List A y
SOCI Sociology 430 3 Global Citizenship List A y
SOCI Sociology 435 3 International Service Learning List C y
SOCI Sociology 461 3 Political Sociology List A y
SPPH School of Population and Public Health 300 3 Working in International Health List B n
SPPH School of Population and Public Health 409 3 International Indigenous Experiences of Colonization List C n