What If You Could Join This Community of Global Leaders?
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SCHOOL of INTERNATIONAL SERVICE AmericAn University • WAshington, Dc What if you could join this community of global leaders? AKBAR AHMED HOW AMERICA’S WAR ON TERROR BECAME A GLOBAL WAR ON TRIBAL ISLAM SIS building photos: ©2013 Prakash Patel What if you could have the benefits of Washington, D.C., and a campus community? top ten school of international of a tight-knit campus community. Our campus community based in Washington, D.C. Our relations, the School of and our beautiful new LEED-gold building faculty—among the largest housed in a school of International Service (SIS) create opportunities for faculty and students international relations—works closely with D.C.- at American University to collaborate, build relationships, and engage based international organizations, NGOs, think Ais committed to a broad with each other, alumni, and the global leaders tanks, and embassies to use their knowledge and interdisciplinary approach to the study who frequently visit our school. Our city creates to help address real-world global challenges. of international relations that values public unparalleled opportunities for our faculty and Our students, many of whom currently work service, environmental stewardship, human students to not only study and research the in the city, can draw on Washington’s wealth rights, and social justice. Strategically field, but also to actively engage in the ongoing of resources to apply their learning alongside located in Washington, D.C., SIS has both the work of international relations. leaders in the field through an internship or a advantages of the nation’s capital city—a hub of Indeed, the SIS community is deeply practicum project. international relations activity—and the benefits intertwined with the international relations Our location has supported and inspired www.american.edu/sis 1 “We are architects of laws, the shapers of ideas; we leave our imprint on academia as well as downtown and across town; we are the authors of academic books, conference papers, curriculum guides, peace agreements, laws for emerging democracies, and policy analysis for governments. We are creative, engaged, multinational, and multidisciplinary.” — Prof. Julie Mertus our work since our founding in 1957. At the visited campus. Countless other notable leaders international organizations. prompting of U.S. President Dwight Eisenhower, come to AU to speak with our students, including Our community brings a diversity of American University’s Hurst Anderson and the His Holiness the Dalai Lama, former Chilean experience and expertise to bear, with over 148 Methodist Bishop of Washington, G. Bromley president Michelle Bachelet, U.S. Attorney countries represented and over 90 languages Oxnam, designed the school to respond to General Eric H. Holder, Jr., Meet the Press host spoken in our graduate student community. Eisenhower’s call to train more human-focused and SIS alumnus David Gregory, Enough Project Over 25% of our students are domestic students international affairs leaders prepared for the founder and SIS alumnus John Prendergast, as of color and 17% are the first members of their changing needs of a post-Cold War world. well as numerous ambassadors, government families to go to college. Many are veterans or President Eisenhower embraced the idea and officials, economic powerhouses, and NGO currently serving in the military, and many are spoke at the School’s groundbreaking ceremony leaders from the U.S. and around the world. combining school with concurrent work in the in 1957. He charged the school with supporting Over fifty years since our founding, the field. Almost all of our graduate students—over students to learn to “wage peace” throughout SIS community continues to prepare the next 96% in this year’s cohort—report that they have the world. generation of global leaders. With over 25 lived or studied abroad before coming to SIS. SIS and American University continue degree programs, our students and faculty Drawing on this wealth of experiences and to draw a cadre of global leaders who are have the wide range of knowledge and skills resources, our SIS community is collaborative attracted to the School’s focus on international necessary to tackle the complex challenges of with each other and our colleagues in the field, understanding and public service. President our ever-changing and interdependent world. connected to Washington and the world, and Barack Obama visited SIS in July 2010, and Drawing on our network of over 15,000 global committed to pursuing global change. We hope Presidents George H.W. Bush, John F. Kennedy, alumni, our students work in NGOs, public you will consider what it might be like if you, Bill Clinton, and Jimmy Carter have also all service organizations, private companies, and too, were to join this distinctive community. 2 School of International Service SIS is ranked among the top 10 schools of international affairs by Foreign Policy Magazine (2012) www.american.edu/sis 3 What if your degree could prepare you to address the great challenges of our time? IS graduate degrees equip students scholars in international relations. international relations. The final component of with the knowledge and skills Our multidisciplinary master’s curriculum is the program is a capstone project, which can necessary to lead change in our focused on both preparing students for careers include: an applied practicum, a traditional complex and interconnected in global service and enhancing their current thesis option, or an internship and related Sworld. SIS offers over twenty-five career paths, while our doctoral program is substantial research paper. degree programs, including traditional two- more scholarly in nature. All of our degrees Our doctoral curriculum provides training year on-campus master’s degrees, as well as an help students build specific expertise rooted in in international relations that is both multi- executive degree for mid-career professionals a solid international affairs foundation. Each disciplinary and policy-relevant and which that can be completed in one calendar year. master’s degree is grounded in a set of core enables our graduates to go on to careers in SIS is also proud to offer the premier online courses alongside economics and research university teaching and research, government, master’s degree in international relations. In methods. Students also select a specialized and non-government organizations in the United addition to master’s programs, SIS offers an concentration to focus their program on States as well as around the globe. interdisciplinary doctoral program for emerging their unique interest in a particular aspect of 4 School of International Service | Degrees Prof. Tazreena Sajjad’s research focuses on human rights and conflict, transitional justice, gender, and humanitarian interventions. www.american.edu/sis 5 Master’s Degrees l MS in Development l MA in International Affairs: l MA in International Management Global Governance, Communication Politics, and Security l MA in Ethics, Peace, and l MA in International Global Affairs l MA in International Affairs: Development International Economic l MA in Global Relations l MA in International Environmental Policy Economics l MA in International Affairs: l MA in International Affairs: Natural Resources and l MA in International Media Comparative and Regional Sustainable Development Studies (Africa, the l MA in International Peace Americas, Asia, Europe, l MA in International Affairs: and Conflict Resolution the Middle East, Russia United States Foreign and Central Eurasia, Policy and National l MA in International Islamic Studies) Security Relations (Online) l MA in Social Enterprise Executive Degree l Master of International Service Doctoral Degree l PhD in International Relations Dual Degrees l JD/MA in International Affairs l MBA/MA in International Affairs International Dual Degrees l Ritsumeikan University, Japan l Sookmyung Women’s University, Korea l Korea University, Korea l UN University for Peace, Costa Rica 6 School of International Service | Degrees MS in Development resolution and do substantial work in philosophy methodology, international economics, and ser- Management and social policy to acquire a solid framework vice experience in the public or private sectors he M.S. in Development Management offers for the increasingly compelling and relevant through internships, which allows students to Ta unique opportunity for combining devel- questions of ethics and peace. craft a flexible degree program that combines opment and public administration to provide their interests in individual ways. state of the art training and practice in develop- MA in Global ment management. The degree is designed Environmental Policy MA in International both for practitioners and students with prior he mission of the Global Environmental Affairs: Comparative field experience who plan to work on develop- TPolicy degree is to understand causes of and Regional Studies ment programs and projects either within the environmental harm and identify ways to build (Africa, the Americas, United States or in developing countries. The a more sustainable world. Through coursework, Asia, Europe, the Middle approach emphasizes social learning, action individual and team research, and internships East, Russia and Central research, institutional development, and social in Washington and around the world, students Eurasia, Islamic Studies) development management, with the objective develop the knowledge, perspective, and skills he Comparative