Brandeis’s unique program in International and Global Studies (IGS) offers special opportunities to comprehend the rapidly changing world. It helps students understand what “globalization” means not just in economic and political terms, but also what it means for individuals, for nations and cultures, and for the environment.
After a set of four foundational courses, students specialize in a key area:
To gain a deeper understanding of foreign cultures, IGS majors take one additional language course (beyond the graduate requirement) and either study abroad or complete an internship abroad (or some combination of the two).
The IGS program thus combines a set of rigorous foundational courses, an opportunity to specialize on a key problem of globalization, and a combination of superior language skills and foreign residency (study or work) for meaningful, first-hand experiential learning.
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