Bachelor of Arts [B.A] [International Studies - Diplomacy and International Security] From West Virginia University

Global Affairs tracks are broadly focused on the complexity of international/ transnational relations with respect to a particular set of issues in global affairs. Each global affairs track requires the student to take general skills courses associated with that area of international affairs. Through internships, students gain firsthand knowledge of private and public organizations engaged in international social, economic and government affairs.The tracks currently offered are:

This area of emphasis is designed primarily for students with broad interests in international politics and, as such, career aspirations ranging from diplomacy (e.g,. the foreign service or international organizations), the analysis of contemporary conflicts within the policy community, and/or academia with a specialization in international relations.

International Studies majors have been remarkably successful lately in receiving prestigious national scholarships, WVU’s highest recognition at graduation, and admission to top graduate programs in the United States and abroad. Among our current and recent graduates, one has received a Truman Scholarship, two have been awarded Fulbright Scholarships, two have received Boren Scholarships, and at least three now have Critical Language Scholarships. At this year’s graduation, four seniors were designatedWVU Outstanding Seniors and two of them were among the eight University graduates inducted into the Order of Augusta—WVU’s highest academic recognition.

Beyond WVU, our graduates have been accepted to some of the most prominent graduate schools in the United States. These include the top international affairs programs at Turfs University (Fletcher School), Georgetown (Walsh School), George Washington (Elliot School with Law), Syracuse (Maxwell), American University (SPIA), Pittsburgh (GSPIA), Kentucky (Patterson School), Denver (Korbel School), and the University of Washington (Jackson School). Others have gone abroad for graduate studies and been accepted to such schools as the London School of Economics, the University of London, the University of Manchester, the Ocean University of China in Qingdao, and (via WVU’s Atlantis Program) Collegium Civitas in Poland and the University of Tartu in Estonia. Still other graduates with second majors in Agriculture and Biology have gone on to prestigious programs in international agriculture at Cornell University and international public health at the University of Pittsburgh.