UR’s multidisciplinary International Studies: Politics and Diplomacy concentration has been highly popular with students since the early 1990s, and remains so. However, in the interim, the world has changed dramatically. This FLC will ask: what are the strengths of the current major design? Is it a curriculum for the 21^st Century? We will consider changes in the global environment; developments in international studies as a field of inquiry and of instruction; and evolving student interests and needs. Our objective is to assemble a menu of options to the IS advisory board for how the concentration may adapt, to continue to offer a cutting-edge program of study.

Coordinators

Carol Summers (History)
Sheila Carapico (Political Science)

Participants

Tim Barney (Rhetoric and Communication Studies)
David Brandenberger (History)
Stephen Long (Political Science)
Martha Merritt (Dean of International Education, ex officio)
Shahan Mufti (Journalism)
David Salisbury (Geography and the Environment)

Resource Librarian

Samantha Guss