Designed to provide students field experiences with community agencies to link academic work with meaningful community service that will benefit both the agency and the student. Agencies will benefit from the infusion of enthusiastic students to assist in the delivery of services to their clients and students will develop a deeper understanding of their role as leaders in their communities as well as increase their civic and citizenship skills. The director of the undergraduate major will work in conjunction with the Career Development Center of Rutgers-Newark and other campus units to place students in a viable internship.
Prerequisites: Successful completion of three core courses.

The political process in Latin America; emphasis on the role of political parties, social sectors, and special groups such as the military, labor, and students; specific problems of Latin American political development; and government economic and social policy making in an era of globalization.

Writing intensive.

Domestic politics and government structures examined comparatively across countries located in Africa, Asia, Europe, and Latin America. Special emphasis on government-citizen relations, ethnic identities, and socioeconomic and political formations.

Basics of international relations (sources of national power, sovereignty, security, international law and organization, and international economics), and factors (historical, political, economic, social, and governmental) in the formation of American foreign policy, with emphasis on current problems.

Designed for the history major who desires to undertake extensive reading in a particular historical area, selected in consultation with a member of the department.
Prerequisites: Written permission of department chair and instructor. Limited to students whose grade-point average within the department is 2.0 or higher.

Placement in an appropriate publishing, public relations, or media firm for 8 to 10 hours per week; a journal reflecting each working day's activities plus a paper to be agreed upon by the academic supervisor and the intern.

In this course students read and discuss recent criticism and major contributions of works that have pushed the limits of this genre and medium. Students will develop a working knowledge of the history of comics and a critical framework and vocabulary for defining, describing, and discussing this popular and amorphous medium. Guest speakers, all practicing cartoonists, will introduce students to both the artistic and the practical aspects of creating comics. The workshop will include instruction on basic drawing and storyboarding techniques using iPads, Adobe Illustrator, Photoshop, and InDesign and on ebook layout and formatting using OMEKA and Calibre software, as well as discussions about creators' rights and intellectual property issues. The final project for the workshop will be a digital exhibit featuring each student's best digital comic and an ebook anthology of student-created comics.

An intensive undergraduate research experience involving field, laboratory, and library work; presentation of written report. Hours to be arranged.
Prerequisite: Approval of the chair.