<p>I've been looking up everywhere to search for colleges with a good International Studies major. (Not International Relations, I noticed there are differences between the two, do let me know if I'm wrong?)</p>
<p>I'm particularly fond of Yale's International Studies focus as described:
"We live in an era in which understanding the economic, political, social, cultural, and technological dimensions of international interactions is more important than ever. The best way for students to grasp vital international issues often involves them in integrating insights across these realms.</p>
<p>The International Studies major allows students to do just that. </p>
<p>The major helps students to gain skills and knowledge crucial for understanding global affairs. These include languages other than English; facility with analytic methods drawn from the social sciences and other disciplines; insights into key topics such as statecraft and power, international political economy, ethnicity and culture, and science and technology; and familiarity with the history, politics and culture of a range of countries and world regions. "</p>
<p>(I like to approach the major from a wide perspective to understand the world of collosal interactions.)</p>
<p>Please suggest what other schools are good for International studies?</p>
<p>Trying looking for GLOBAL studies. I don’t know if this is really what you’re looking for, but I noticed several colleges with GLOBAL (not Int’l) studies programs. (NYU, UCLA, etc.)</p>
<p>The NYU program allows one to begin studying abroad as soon as their Freshman year. </p>
<p>“The Global Liberal Studies Program (GLS) is a new, innovative bachelor’s program that features core course work in the liberal arts with a focus on great works in a global context. All GLS students spend their junior year abroad at an NYU site. Graduates of GLS will be world citizens, proficient in a foreign language, engaged in international cultures, and well prepared to enter the world of work or for admission to professional and graduate schools.”</p>
<p>Middlebury has an excellent International Studies program (as distinct from International Relations). It is coupled with their amazing language programs and allows you to focus on a region and select a substantive specialty such as history, literature and culture, anthropology etc. There is also a very well regarded environmental science major which you can do with an international focus.</p>
<p>Thank you peeps
I’m looking up global studies now.
Yale, Middlebury, Dartmouth, Williams Mary, Brown, Wesleyan, Tufts, Macalester, Georgetown are on my watch list now. (They all seem to be very selective schools)</p>
<p>Anyone else has good suggestion to pour in for IS (or IR) schools? Or would like to comment on the schools above?</p>
<p>You seem to have found most of the usual suspects among very selective schools. In this company, the one big omission is Johns Hopkins. And maybe Columbia. Less selective alternatives include other DC-area schools, especially American University.</p>
<p>There’s a risk in these interdisciplinary programs that you become a jack of all trades and master of none in a world that tends to value specialization and “hard” skills. There are many earnest, talkative young people out there wanting to bring peace love and understanding to places that need sanitary water supply, flood control, better roads and such. </p>
<p>So, another path would be to get a science or engineering degree then pick up the IS/IR in a Masters Degree program somewhere imposing such as Hopkins/SAIS or Harvard/Kennedy. If engineering isn’t your thing, Environmental Science plus a language at Middlebury sounds promising. If you are not a science person at all, yet another approach would be to do area studies focusing on China, India, Africa, the Middle East or Latin America, then do the MS (or the Peace Corps). In this area studies category (plus economics), the University of Chicago is another top school. </p>
<p>You’re not a senior are you? If so, time’s getting short.</p>
<p>Well, sciences isn’t of my professed liking, environmental science wouldn’t be that bad though.
I do like the area studies pathway, but I’ve heard of the intellectual-sarcastic vibe of UChicago which doesn’t appeals to me, any other colleges good in area studies as well?</p>
<p>Dear wittywonka,
I 'll be having American University on my watch list. However, between Georgetown, AU and GWU, which would be a better option?</p>
<p>Thank you guys for having the courtesy to reply to me :)</p>
