Program Description If you are considering a career in a competitive global environment, this program is for you. This is especially true if you are interested in a career in international diplomacy, in such international organizations as the United Nations, such non-governmental organizations as Amnesty International, the Canadian Foreign Service, and/or international business.
This is a unique and interdisciplinary program that combines several academic disciplines into a varied and fascinating study of global politics. Our program is based on a set of core Political Science courses and two concentrations selected from: Economics; Gender; History; Philosophy; Middle Eastern and Islamic Studies; Sociology; Geography and Globalization; and Languages (choice of French, Arabic, German, Italian or Spanish). You can also spend a semester overseas on International Exchange as one of your concentrations.
The International Relations program explores the complexities and challenges associated with international governance to better understand how politics works in the developed and developing world. Our faculty members conduct research in such areas as: peace and conflict resolution; Track II diplomacy, development and aid strategies; food security and hunger; international policy analysis; international trade and political economy; Middle Eastern and Islamic politics; African politics, democratic politics in post-Soviet states, oil and resource politics, and religion and politics
