Reply to Colleges with an International Relations major

Forum Index » College and University Discussion

Reply to "Colleges with an International Relations major"

Subject:

Emoticons





More smilies

Text Color: Font: Close Marks

[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]UVA has Foreign Affairs, not International Relations, but close. [/quote]

There are always debates about international studies, affairs, & relations. The fact is that there are no strict differences among these terms. Each college has its own idea of what it is going to focus on. So don’t get hung up on the name of the department. [/quote]

+1. It’s mostly a function of resources and professors. IR has historically been a subfield of political science, but also has developed quite an independent theoretical framework, and at the same time has become popular and something of a cash cow at the grad level (unlike political science generally). So there is no set way to do it—you could have a standalone department with enough IR-specific faculty and resources, keep it under political science to draw from shared administration and professors that naturally fall under political science (e.g., comparative politics), offer an IR-specific major that leans more heavily on IR theory and a separate international affairs major that offers more course flexibility, etc.[/quote]

Options

	Disable HTML in this message
	Disable BB Code in this message
	Disable smilies in this message

Review message

Search Recent Topics Hottest Topics