International Studies offers an interdisciplinary program drawing on social science and humanities approaches to the study of postcolonialism, migration, diaspora, empire, human rights, development and its many attenuations. Encompassing a wide range of fields, areas and disciplines, and grounded in the histories and experiences of the diverse peoples and cultures that make up the globe, the major explores different conceptual framings of the global and the role of the United States in local, global and transnational relationships.
By asking a broad range of research questions and engaging with diverse scholarly methods and theories, the program encourages new understandings of issues that profoundly affect contemporary life and scholarship, including questions of migration, diaspora and borders; indigeneity and colonization; globalization, empire and war; capital and culture; language, race and ethnicity; religion; slavery and racialization; gender and sexuality; and ecology and technology.
Our major and minor is an interdisciplinary plan of study that prepares students to make intellectual connections in the world through an understanding of colonialism, migration, globalization, and diaspora in current and historical times.
International Studies
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Atlanta, Georgia 30314
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The remaining courses must be chosen from the following issue area or area concentrations. International Development, Cultural Studies, Latin America, Africa, or Asia.
Upon completion of the international studies major, a student will be able to . . .
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