Through knowledge and skills gained from interdisciplinary coursework and immersive professional experience, students learn to tackle the most difficult challenges around the world, such as conflict, displaced persons, human rights abuses, and poverty. The richness of our faculty’s backgrounds, professional expertise, and experiences offers the students an opportunity to gain a high-level understanding in trade, development, security, human rights, peace, conflict resolution, and migration, as well as the connections between them.
By offering a combination of learning formats (rigorous introductory and advanced courses and seminars, immersive learning, and in-country experiences), the International Policy Studies program prepares students for careers in community, national and international organizations, NGOs and volunteer organizations, socially responsible businesses, think-tanks and academic institutions, where they address a wide range of policy challenges.
International Policy Degree Tracks
Beginning fall 2012, the program will be organized into two distinct tracks:
- Trade, Investment & Development
- Human Security & Development
Within these tracks, students have the option to develop a focus area using seminar and elective credits. In the past, students have studied in the various subject areas such as conflict resolution, human rights, humanitarian assistance, migration, trade, and development, which are well kept and streamlined into the two tracks.