Objectives

The undergraduate International Studies Program (ISP) is designed to familiarize students with the basic characteristics of the international system and to permit them to explore particular aspects of that system in greater depth. ISP not only encompasses the interactions among national governments, international institutions, and international private actors, but it also includes the effects that those international interactions have on the economy, populace, and society within nations. ISP therefore deals with the interactions (or "feedback effects") between the domestic and international environments, as well as the interdependence between states.