Welcome
Welcome to the website of the International Studies Program in the Eberly College of Arts and Sciences at West Virginia University. With nearly three hundred hundred majors, International Studies continues to be one of the most rapidly growing majors in the Eberly College of Arts and Sciences. This academic major’s curriculum provides a broad, interdisciplinary background in international affairs drawing upon courses in economics, foreign languages, geography, history, political science, religious studies, and sociology/anthropology.
Our flexible major provides a core background in international affairs, and then enables students to focus on a “regional area of emphasis” (Africa/Middle East, the Americas, East Asia, and Europe) or a “global affairs area of emphasis” (international business, international environment and development, diplomacy and international security, and or intelligence and national security). All this can be closely integrated with study abroad programs, internships and service learning, international conferences, and Model United Nations. We invite you to explore this website to learn more about our faculty, our curriculum, and numerous opportunities beyond the classroom.
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PRE-REGISTRATION NOW IN PROGRESS FOR FALL AND SUMMER SEMESTERS. During the next three weeks (March 6th to March 24th), all International Studies majors are required to make an appointments for advising in order to register for courses for the 2012 Fall Semester as well as Summer courses. Contact Donna MacIsaac by phone (304-293-2595) to set up a sequence of appointments with her and then your faculty advisor. Click on the following link for detailed pre-registration advising instructions sent to all International Studies majors: Spring 2012 International Studies Registration Letter
STUDY ABROAD REGISTRATION FOR SUMMER AND FALL PROGRAMS. Registration for study abroad programs is now in progress through the WVU Office of International Programs. These include not only various foreign language and culture programs offered through the Department of World Languages, Literature, and Linguistics, but also international affairs programs with international summer programs at Tartu (Estonia), Marburg, (Germany), Buenos Aires (Argentina), as well as WVU’s summer program in European Law and Institutions in Strasbourg, France. As for the fall semester, registration is in progress for WVU’s Strasbourg Semester in European Affairs and for international law offerings at the School of Law at the University of Manchester, United Kingdom. If you are interested (and have not already received registration information on these programs), contact Professor Joe Hagan (jhagan@wvu.edu) for an appointment to discuss details on these programs and the registration process. Information on all of these programs can be found in the study abroad section of the I.S. Program website.
