Registration for Spring 2025 SIPA courses will continue until Friday, January 31. Any Concentration and Specialization restrictions are now lifted.
Below is a list of classes accredited by the International Organization and UN Studies (IO/UNS) specialization, that we hope can help you decide the final composition of your next semester. IO/UNS specializers need one required course and 6 elective credits to qualify for the specialization.
If you find a course that you think should be recognized but is on this list, please send the course information, including the syllabus to IO/UNS director, Professor Daniel Naujoks.
Dual degree students, please note: we can recognize up to one course from your first year of the dual degree program, for consideration, please send the class syllabus to Professor Naujoks.
Required course
INAFU6352 United Nations & Globalization (3 credits). The course is currently full and there is a waitlist. If you're a second year IO/UNS specializer and have not taken any required course, please inform Professor Naujoks ASAP. If you're a first semester IO/UNS specializer who is not in the course yet, while there maybe some movement in the first 2 weeks of the semester, you can always take the course next year.
Electives that count toward both IO & UN Focus Area
Highlighted course: INAF U6341 UN Development System in Action: Governance, Funding and Country-level Results (1.5 credits).
Professor Gülden Türköz-Cosslett, a SIPA alum, has 30 years of experience in the UN Development system, most recently, as Deputy Director of UNDP’s Bureau of External Relations and Advocacy and as Regional Director of UN Women. Her short course in the second half of the Spring semester has students work with the UN on specific projects and is a great opportunity to learn about the intricacies of the UN’s work to promote sustainable development.
INAF U8537 Climate Change Policy (3 credits)
INAF U6776 Mediation in a World in Flux (1.5 credits)
INAF U8358 Foreign Policy - Thinking Outside the Box (1.5 credits)
INAF U6183 Innovation for Development (1.5 credits)
INAF U6442 Failures and Successes of Three Decades of Peacemaking (3 credits)
INAF U6736 Innovations in Development Finance (1.5 credits)
INAF U6751 International Human Rights Law (3 credits)
INAF U6897 Writing on Policy (3 credits)
INAF U6348 Engaging Non-State Armed Groups: Lessons from the UN and Beyond (1.5 credits)
INAF U6762 Risk Management for UN Crisis ＆ Post-crisis Responses (3 credits)
INAF U8785 Gender, Politics, and Development: Theory, Policy ＆ Practice (3 credits)
INAFU 8180 Human Rights Skills ＆ Advocacy (3 credits)
LAW 9383L International Humanitarian Law (2 credits)
PUAF U6801 Negotiation ＆ Conflict Resolution (3 credits)
HRTS 3601BC International Law & U.N. in practice (3 credits)
Electives that only count toward the IO Focus Area:
REGN U6315 Politics in the European Union (3 credits)
INAF U6425 Energy Transition in Europe (1.5 credits)
IAIA U6310 Diplomacy in Practice: the EU ＆ the World (3 credits)
The EU and Democracy: Challenges and Perspectives for the Next Decade (1.5 credits) | 
