Whether you’re launching a career at the United Nations or working on global business projects in the private sector, you will make a difference when you understand the issues and have a wide range of skills to solve them. International affairs programs teach you to think across cultures and disciplines, and develop critical thinking and communication skills that employers from all kinds of fields are seeking. You’ll also learn how to work with diverse groups of people and get hands-on experience through real-world opportunities like Model United Nations simulations, research internships and study abroad options.
In 2025, the world will face new challenges that will need global solutions. The UN will mark its 80th anniversary, and enacting urgent reforms to upgrade some of its World War II-era bodies and processes is likely to be top of the agenda. At the same time, UN agencies struggle to cope with funding shortfalls that have hit humanitarian aid and development work.
Global affairs courses prepare you to understand these complexities and address them by combining approaches from multiple social sciences and humanities disciplines, along with a mastery of advanced quantitative analysis. You’ll gain a fluency in the tools of anthropology, history, political science, economics and sociology to develop a multidisciplinary approach to understanding international problems. And you’ll be able to shape your course of study with a range of electives including courses in the areas of global development and poverty, humanitarianism, and foreign policy and diplomacy.
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