- Students will develop sophisticated knowledge of historical and current international issues, policies, events, and trends.
- Students will learn and apply various theoretical and methodological frameworks to analyze issues critical to this multidisciplinary field and our increasingly global world.
- Students will develop research competence, thereby enabling them to think, write and speak critically about complex global, regional, and national problems.
- Students will demonstrate proficiency in a second language at the intermediate level.
- Students will demonstrate an understanding of other countries’ or regions’ cultural expressions in the context of globalization.
- Students will gain a more nuanced understanding of their own culture from an international and global perspective.
In support of these goals, students are strongly encouraged to study abroad for a semester or more (see section C for more details), and develop a facility in a second language beyond the intermediate level.
