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Engaging with Diversity to Build Inclusion SIS Undergraduate Opportunities

Whether students have academic, professional, or personal interests in deepening their understanding of diversity, equity and inclusion during their undergraduate education, SIS offers a range of opportunities. Meaningful engagement with difference comes in the classroom and beyond in the form of living communities, student clubs, and workshops. While thematic areas like “Global Inequality and Development†offer a path toward deeper knowledge of equity, the ethos of service and social justice at SIS offer experiential opportunities to contribute to more equitable systems.

Students will find a range of ways to build skills of intercultural communication, antiracism, and leadership to create more inclusive communities both in and out of the classroom. With future sights on careers in international affairs, these skillsets will be invaluable for the next steps in their journeys.

35 percent

of SIS undergrads identify as U.S.-born students of color

Latinos En Acción

On Campus

Latinos En Acción Brings AU Latine Community Together

Elizabeth García, SIS/BA ’27, shares how the Latinos En Acción organization at AU is fostering an inclusive environment for the Latine community on campus and beyond.

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Course Spotlight

Migration and DevelopmentSpring 2025 Taught by Professor Tazreena Sajjad

This course provides students with informed views on migration issues. It introduces several important topics that should be in the minds of (current and future) policymakers when approaching and designing migration-related policies. While taking a mostly economic approach to the issues of migration and economic development, the course offers a variety of viewpoints from different social sciences, and from different perspectives. (SIS 340-001)

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Professor Spotlight

Professor Jordanna Matlon will teach SIS 340-001 Anthropocene and Crises of Captialism in the Fall 2024 semester.

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Funded Opportunity: Clarke Fellowship- US Dept. of State

Funded by the US Department of State, the Clarke DS Fellowship is a two-year graduate fellowship program designed for individuals who want to prusue a master's degree and a career as a Diplomatic Security Service Special Agent in the Foreign Service. Application deadline occurs in April of each year.

Regional Courses Offerings

SIS has increased undergraduate regional course offerings, especially in Africa, Latin America, and the Middle East. 

A list of regional course offerings across AU is now available. Cross-check this list with the to identify courses offered during a term.

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SIS Student Helps Foster Belonging at AU

Barbara Taylor, SIS/MA '22

I have the opportunity to co-create spaces that shift our worldviews.

Working in the Intergroup Dialogue program at AU’s Center for Diversity and Inclusion (CDI), I have learned how to create space for students to explore their identities and grow through the discomfort of addressing difficult topics. Dialogues are also spaces for marginalized communities to engage on pressing issues they face.

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