DEPARTMENT OF SOCIAL AND INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS: BEYOND NATIONAL AND ACADMIC BOUNDARIES
After curriculum reform of 2011, the Department of Arts and Sciences was inaugurated as part of the senior division of the College of Arts and Sciences. The Division of Social and International Relations is one of the three main divisions that comprise the department. Each academic year a little over 30 students are enrolled.
The Division of Social and International Relations is comprised by (1) the Course in Interdisciplinary Social Sciences and (2) the Course in International Relations. While the two courses have distinct and unique curriculum, both are designed to approach a wide array of contemporary social issues from interdisciplinary perspectives. For this purpose, one must train a keen eye for research insight that is built upon thorough understandings of existing theories and mastery of analytical tools in multiple disciplines in social sciences. The department welcomes students, whose intellectual curiosity is not constrained within the boundaries of disciplines; anxious to explore issues and complexity of today’s world from a broader perspective; and perceive the challenge that societies face as opportunity. Graduates of the department pursue these opportunities in governments, multinational corporations, as well as in research.
COURSE IN INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS: ANALYZING INTERNATIONAL SOCIETY FROM MULTIPLE PRESPECTIVES
One of the primary subjects of analysis in International Relations is allocation of values, as well as process, policies, and institutions that achieve such allocation in international society. A thorough analysis of these and other issues International Relations typically requires expertise in not just one, but in multiple disciplines of International Politics, International Law, or International Economics. The Course in International Relations is designed to enable students to conduct research from multidisciplinary perspectives.
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COURSE IN INTERDISCIPLINARY SOCIAL SCIENCES: THE LIBERAL ARTS IN A TIME OF RAPID GLOBALIZATION
The Course in Interdisciplinary Social Sciences premises that complexities of some of the issues and social phenomena that are prevalent in contemporary society are not necessarily best analyzed by any single discipline. The course is designed to equip students with understandings in Political Science, Economics, Legal Studies, Sociology and Cultural Studies, and with analytical tools used in each of these discipline. It is a pioneering attempt to better understand the society that is ever more complex. The course provides students with opportunities to examine problems via cross-disciplinary and issue-oriented approach.
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