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Dec 04, 2024
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[DRAFT] Course Catalog 2025-2026 [ARCHIVED CATALOG]
International Affairs Integrative Concentration
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The integrative concentration consists of a minimum of 6 full courses (or the equivalent), 1 experiential component, and 1 learning portfolio.
Note: Students must earn minimum grades of C- or P for all courses that apply toward the integrative concentration.
The international affairs integrative concentration is designed to prepare students for careers and pursuits spanning national boundaries. It is grounded in the social sciences (though cross-cultural breadth may be derived from humanities courses) and focused on contemporary issues and their recent history in order to develop an understanding of the current dominant modes of international interactions, and the global nature and consequences of those interactions. The international affairs integrative concentration helps develop a student’s ability to analyze global issues, to understand the dynamics of cross-cultural communication, and to appreciate the characteristics of regions outside the United States. Students may choose from more than 100 courses across the curriculum dealing with factors shaping global affairs.
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Note(s) on Requirements
- If a student wishes to count a course that is not listed below toward the concentration, they can petition the concentration chair(s) for approval to apply the completed or in-progress course toward their concentration.
- In planning their schedules, students should be aware that some of the courses listed below have prerequisites.
Detailed Integrative Concentration Requirements
International Affairs Integrative Concentration Course Lists
Modern Foreign Language Courses
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One year (two full courses) of a modern foreign language is required. If completed outside the college, a certification by the chair of the appropriate language department is required.
The following departments or programs offer language courses that would satisfy this requirement:
Experiential Component
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Concentrators must complete one off-campus internship that deals with global affairs in any area. The minimum length for the internship is four weeks. It may also be possible for a Winter Term internship experience to count for this requirement; students interested in this option must first get the approval of their concentration advisor.
As part of the experiential component process, students are encouraged to join a relevant career community that offers them skills and expertise necessary for a career in global affairs. Concentrators may find the following career communities particularly suitable: Education; Law and Public Policy; Medical, Public, and Global Health Professions; and Non-Profit and the Public Sector. In addition, there are a number of national and international organizations with which internships may be accessible; see list below.
Organizations with Potential Internship Opportunities
- American Institute for Maghrib Studies (AIMS), Tunisia & Morocco
- Atlantic Council, Washington, D.C.
- Bard Globalization and International Affairs Program (BGIA)
- Brookings Institution, Washington, D.C.
- Carnegie Endowment for International Peace Middle East Program, Washington, D.C.
- Council on Foreign Relations, Washington, D.C.
- Foreign Policy for America
- Human Rights Watch
- International Crisis Group, Morocco
- International Monetary Fund (IMF)
- National Council on U.S.-Arab Relations, Washington, D.C.
- Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC)
- United Nations
- United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP)
- United Nations Women: Women, Peace, and Security agenda (WPS)
- U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID)
- U.S. Department of State
- W.E.B. Dubois Memorial Centre for Pan African Culture, Accra, Ghana
- World Bank
- World Resources Institute, Washington, D.C
Learning Portfolio
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Students will be required to maintain a learning portfolio which will include signature course work as well as pre- and post-internship reflection. The portfolio is a means for students to draw together the theory from the curricular component with the practice from the experiential component. It also works to support students’ appreciation of global expertise as an area of rich intellectual engagement, as well as, how to launch from college to career. Vital to this integration is the student’s understanding of how the range of skills acquired through liberal arts learning are transferable to the workplace. The integrative component will be overseen by the student’s faculty advisor for the integrative concentration.
International Affairs Concentration Advisory Group
Zeinab Abul-Magd, Nancy Schrom Dye Professor of Middle Eastern History; chair
Deanna Bergdorf, Director of Winter Term and Global Learning
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