
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:
- 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 - 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 - 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