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School of Diplomacy and International Relations
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Program Goals and Student Learning Objectives (SLOs)

Program Goals
The Curriculum provides students with the knowledge, skills, and multi-cultural literacy that will enable and encourage them to contribute to substantive and policy-relevant issues in diplomacy and international affairs.

Specifically
The program's effectiveness focuses on the following aspects of the School's three mutually reinforcing curricular aims:

  1. Provide students with Knowledge in the following areas:
    SLO 1 The key concepts, models, theories, and debates involved in the study of contemporary international relations and diplomacy
    SLO 2 An in-depth knowledge of a particular functional area and/or region of the world
    SLO 3 Knowledge and understanding of the social science research process

  2. Provide students with the following skills:
    SLO 4 Collect, sort, and evaluate information;
    SLO 5 Analyze complex situations and synthesize information
    SLO 6 Integrate different fields of study in analysis of a complex world
    SLO 7 Communicate effectively in oral and written form

  3. Provide students with a sense of global citizenship and to employ a global perspective to:
    SLO 8 Recognize and understand differences among a diversity of cultures and viewpoints
    SLO 9 Interact effectively with people of other cultures, backgrounds and viewpoints
    SLO 10 Employ a global perspective and self-awareness regarding their own culture and responsibility, as world citizens
    SLO 11 Demonstrate leadership qualities and other essential skills of diplomacy