<p>Any general description on what this school offers (majors/ minors) and do most students apply here rather than the Pratt school? Please enlighten me! :)</p>
<p>[Duke</a> University | Trinity College of Arts & Sciences : Majors, minors, certificates](<a href=“http://trinity.duke.edu/majors]Duke”>http://trinity.duke.edu/majors)</p>
<p>Trinity offers a number of majors. However, some obvious ones like International Relations are absent. Which is quite shocking in my opinion and forces people such as myself who want to major in IR to major in Political Science.
Look into the T-Reqs requirements to take a look at the school’s core curriculum and mandatory subject classes.
There are many more students who apply and attend Trinity than Pratt.
I have been at Trinity for 2 years and really enjoy it.</p>
<p>^^I want to major in International Relations as well, although I previously planned to major in Political Science. While I looked though their website, I found that they have an International Comparative Studies major. After reading the information, this major seems fairly similar to IR. Do you believe this major is more relevant to IR than Political Science?</p>
<p>The ICS major seemed to me like it encourages students to focus on one area of the world, its culture, its issues, etc. However, most schools of Duke’s size and academic quality offer every IR theory/general course you could find at Georgetown, Stanford, (insert top IR school here), etc. under the umbrella of Poli sci and even econ. I looked at the typical first year poli sci courseload and the first class on that list was intro to IR. BTW I am an intended IR major and have researched this stuff thoroughly and learned that this is the case at basically every other top-tier university in the nation.</p>