<p>I'm really interested in international relations but I already checked that I was applying to the College.</p>
<p>as far as I have read on the SFS resources, you can not cross-enroll in courses into SFS</p>
<p>Of course you can still take SFS classes. The only classes that are impossible for non-SFS students to take are the freshman proseminars, which are specialized writing intensive classes offered on a variety of world issues, and certain language classes, which have a College counterpart. Even the SFS “only” requirements, (Political and Social Thought and MAP) are open to the other schools. Everything else is accessible to every Georgetown student. However, you cannot get a second degree across schools because each school’s set of general education requirements is different If you get to Georgetown and decide that you want a SFS major, you can transfer.</p>
<p>technically, map and political & social thought are SFS only, but there are ways around it. Elements of Political Theory is basically the same as PST, but is open to the other schools. I don’t remember the exact way to get in to map, but there were a very few people who werent in the sfs in the class</p>
<p>Classes aren’t really broken down into “SFS” or “non-SFS” besides the few that have been mentioned here. They’re broken down by department, like philosophy, history, government, etc. so they are open to everyone. A lot of people actually take map who aren’t in SFS–the upside is, they don’t even have to pass the exam.</p>
<p>Well, it’s a bit more complex than this. There are a number of SFS classes that are SFS only. PST is SFS only (although if you’re in the College but planning to transfer they let you take it). Same for Map of the Modern World (why you would want to take that other than to satisfy the requirement is beyond me). The Proseminars (which you take 1st semester freshman year and are generally fantastic) are strictly SFS only.</p>
<p>Some courses for which there is high demand are also SFS-only. Scroll through this page [Georgetown</a> University](<a href=“http://schedule.georgetown.edu/09A/09A148.html]Georgetown”>http://schedule.georgetown.edu/09A/09A148.html) and look at the one that says BSFS only for a good overview. There are some other courses that are always BSFS only. For example: Military Security in World Politics, Intro to Strategic Thought, Quantitative Methods for International Politics, to name a few. Finally, the honors seminars and major capstone classes are all SFS only.</p>
<p>You can of course always transfer to SFS if you want to.</p>
<p>potatoes, this is true, but it’s really only a handful of classes that are limited to SFS students, a small fraction of all of the classes coded INAF or one of the other SFS departmental codes (STIA, CULP, the area studies ones, etc.). On top of that, as tlesc said, a large portion of classes both within the SFS core (Intro to IR, Comparative Political Systems, the Econs, the histories, etc.) and within the major (check out the course lists for IPOL and CULP, for instance: [GU</a> - SFS - BSFS: IPOL > Courses](<a href=“http://views.georgetown.edu/?viewid=56&term=09C]GU”>http://views.georgetown.edu/?viewid=56&term=09C) and [Course</a> lists for Culture and Politics](<a href=“http://views.georgetown.edu/?ViewID=70&term=09C]Course”>http://views.georgetown.edu/?ViewID=70&term=09C) ) will be administratively housed within non-SFS departments and will be open to students from other schools.</p>
<p>Yea, dzleprechaun you’re right that it’s quite a small number of courses. I was merely pointing out some ones that earlier folks had overlooked. The basic idea, of course, is that if you’re truly interested in IR, you need to be in SFS. If you just want to take a few classes on IR while working on something else, then COL is just fine.</p>
<p>I’d also point out, that some of the SFS-only classes are among the very best I’ve taken at Georgetown. If any other IPOL majors are taking this (particularly you Security Studies people), then I could not reccommend Intro to Strategic Thought more highly (offered every spring). It’s on Thursday nights from 710-910 PM which is a drag but Professor Kauppi is singularly brilliant and it’s well worth it.</p>
<p>I’ll certainly second that notion - my proseminar was life-changing. While I never had Intro to Strategic Thought or Kauppi, I did love the security studies classes so much that I stayed an extra year and got a master’s in it, so I know what you mean. I</p>
<p>So you did the five year program? I’ve been thinking about that myself. Was it worth it?</p>