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International Studies

Associate Professor Sharon May, Chair, Division of Social Sciences

Associate Professor Scott Henson, Coordinator

The Major in International Studies combines work across disciplines with advanced language study and education abroad to create a program that prepares students for the challenges of careers and graduate study in international affairs. The Major in International Studies consists of 46-47 credit hours including education abroad. Students must choose a Global Studies Track or Area Studies Track within the major. The Area Studies Track focuses on one region of the world and consists of any one of the offered Regional Concentrations.

Students successfully completing the program of study will have achieved the following learning outcomes:

  1. Develop a global perspective and employ it in an overseas experience.
  2. Demonstrate sensitivity and responsiveness to the needs of persons of other cultures during an overseas experience and those present in the United States.
  3. Analyze foreign culture incorporating the analytical tools of social sciences, humanities and the fine arts.
  4. Analyze international and cross-cultural problems and apply this knowledge during an overseas experience.
  5. Employ a foreign language or English dialect in an overseas experience.