Professor Stanislav Kirschbaum and Student, Khushy Shujaat. (Photo Retrieved from the Glendon Campus Facebook Page)
International studies is a multidisciplinary field that arms you with a deeper understanding of how governments, law, politics, business, civil society, culture, science, and the environment relate on the international stage. Throughout your degree, you will study the relations between countries, regions, international organizations, and transnational networks.
The Departmental programme aims to develop a systematic understanding of the problems and potentialities of international society, with special reference to its theoretical, strategic, legal, economic and cultural dimensions. To facilitate the pursuit of systematic knowledge and, at the same time, enhance the identity, coherence and visibility of the academic programme, core courses are offered in each of these dimensions. Core courses explore the historical, philosophical, theoretical and methodological foundations of the various dimensions of international society. In combination, they should greatly strengthen the students’ capacity for a more genuine interdisciplinary and multicultural analysis of international relations. The fourth year seminar plays a key role in this effort by linking theoretical and methodological issues with students’ research activities and internship experiences.
The programme of study thus equips students with the required analytic tools and challenges them to think constructively towards the creation of a more peaceful, humane and just world order. Due consideration is paid to the role of Canada and Francophone and Anglophone cultures in this process. Particularly significant, in this era of globalization, is the Program’s emphasis on a broad interdisciplinary and multicultural conception of international society. Students are also actively encouraged to acquire proficiency in several foreign languages as well as relevant international experience, through inter-university exchanges and professional internships.
