Walsh School of Foreign Service

IBD Courses

GBUS course have two 4000-level sections for SFS upperclassmen undergraduate students and two 5000-level sections for SFS graduate students. All four sections will meet at the same time.

The GBUS course sections key is as follows:

4000-level 01 – BSFS open section
4000-level 02 – GBF, IBD undergraduate students
5000-level 03 – GSFS open section
5000-level 04 – IBD graduate students 

Please note: the only IBD course that sophomores can take is GBUS 4400/5400.

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Fall 2026

Foundational Courses 

GBUS 4404/5404 Econ of Intl Trade Pol/Agmts
GBUS 4405/5405 International Business Diplomacy
GBUS 4410/5410 International Trade Policy & Law
GBUS 4413/5413 Global Business Strategies
GBUS 4493/5493 Ethical Decisions:Global Business & Government

Accounting and Finance Requirement

GBUS 4400/5400 Business, Accounting & Finance

Data Science Requirement

GBUS 4401/5401 Foundations in Data Science

All IBD Course Offerings

GBUS 4400/5400 Business, Accounting & Finance
GBUS 4401/5401 Foundations in Data Science
GBUS 4404/5404 Econ of Intl Trade Pol/Agmts
GBUS 4405/5405 International Business Diplomacy
GBUS 4408/5408 Market Access Lab
GBUS 4409/5409: AI Fundamentals for Business & Society – NEW for Fall 2026
GBUS 4410/5410 International Trade Policy & Law
GBUS 4413/5413 Global Business Strategies
GBUS 4421/5421 ENERGY: Players, Markets & Project Finance
GBUS 4430/5430 Tech/Innovation & International Trade
GBUS 4444/5444 Sustainable Investing
GBUS 4447/5447 Money/Banking: Emerging Markets
GBUS 4448/5448 Investments in Emerging Markets
GBUS 4461/5461 Political Economy of Cities: Latin America & Asia
GBUS 4462/5462 China-Latin America Relations
GBUS 4464/5464 Ethical Supply Chains & Workers’ Rights
GBUS 4493/5493 Ethical Decisions:Global Business & Government

Courses Accepted for IBD Elective Credit

BSFS

AFST 3395: Political Economy of Development in Africa
ANZP 3367: Trade in Asia Pacific
ARST 3364: Political Economy: West Asia & NA
IPEC 4303: Corruptn/Patronage/Clientelism
LASP 3501: Economic Development of Latin American Countries
LASP 4702: Finance, Politics, and Democracy: LAC
STIA 3173:  Environmental Policy
STIA 3331:  Disruptive Technologies
STIA 3334:  Emerging Tech Policy
STIA 3491:  Cybersecurity: Policy/Tech/Ops
STIA 4102:  Clean Energy Innovation
STIA 4119:  Energy & Environ in Eurasia

MA in Arab Studies

ARST 6564:  Political Economy: Middle East

MA in Asian Studies

ASST 5062:  Indo-Pacific Economic Diplomacy
ASST 5110: International Political Economy: Asia

MA in European Studies

EUST 5003: European Economy

MA in Latin American Studies

LASP 5302: Energy Security: Western Hemisphere
LASP 5701: Money/Banking: Emerging Markets (X-Listed with GBUS 4447/5447)
LASP 5704: Geopolitics Industrializatn LA

MAGHD

MSFS 5520: The Energy Transition
MSFS 6110: Investment in Emerging Markets
MSFS 6140: Comparative Regional Economic Development
MSFS 6160: Asian Economic Development
MSFS 6240: Private Equity – Frontier Markets
MSFS 6250: International Trade & Economic Diplomacy
MSFS 7100: Illicit Finance
MSFS 7160: The Global Financial System
MSFS 7200: Strategy, Finance & Valuation

CCT

CCTP 5018: Digital Law & Policy
CCTP 6009: Future Corporate Communication
CCTP 6032: International & Comparative Privacy & Surveillance

SSP

SEST 6594:  Energy and Security

PPOL

PPOL 6000: Asian Economic Development
PPOL 6201: Public-Private Partnerships

MBA

FINC 6535: Project Finance
FINC 6545: Financial Markets:Institutions & Regulation
FINC 6580: FinTech
MGMT 6535: Negotiations
OPAN 6552: Data Science for Business Decisions
OPAN 6580: Global Supply Chain Management
STRT 6542: Technology Strategy
STRT 6545: Economics of Strategic Behavior