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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ANNOUNCEMENT: Annual Study Abroad Information Session. This Wednesday afternoon, November 30th (at 4:00 in room #126 Ming Hsieh Hall), there be an “information session” on Study Abroad programs in Political Science and International Studies for 2012. If you are interested in possibly doing a study abroad program next year, I urge you to attend this session. We will explain Summer Programs (Strasbourg, France; Marburg, Germany; Tartu, Estonia; and Buenos Aires, Argentina) and Fall Semester Programs (Manchester, UK; Strasbourg, France; and Grenoble, France).
Note: this information session will cover programs for both pre-law/legal studies and international law (Strasbourg summer program and Manchester semester) and comparative politics and international affairs (Strasbourg semester well as summer programs in Marburg, Tartu, and Buenos Aires). Click on the following links for specific information on the 2012 Summer Programs and the 2012 Fall Semester Programs . Further information about relevant international exchanges can be found in the study abroad section of our website.
