| The International Studies inter-disciplinary major is designed for students who have a strong interest in international affairs and who wish to build a solid foundation for a career with international organizations, governments, or international business.
Faculty are drawn mostly from the departments of foreign languages and literatures, geology and geography, history, political science, and sociology and anthropology. Students also pursue course work in the School of Business at South Alabama.
Majors are encouraged to develop analytical skills and language capability in a foreign area in class work, internships, independent research, and travel opportunities abroad. Emphasis is placed on the relationship between student and faculty advisor who must either be a member of the International Studies Advisory Committee or be designated by the program director.
After years of favoring job applicants with technical degrees, more employers are short on younger workers with more general analytical and writing skills. (Wall Street Journal, 5/6/86) The International Studies Program prepares liberal arts majors to meet this and other needs, noted by the Harvard Business School, for people who understand the stuff that has to do with people and leadership and cooperation and the like. (AP, 5.4.84)
For more information, visit the International Studies Homepage. |
