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Core Courses
IAPA students complete three core courses. These courses provide foundational knowledge and teach students to apply data and research insights from across the fields of international affairs to analyze complex policy challenges.
Policy Core
- SIS-760: Complex Problems in International Affairs
Analytical Core
- SIS-761: Research Design, Analysis & Communication
- SIS-600: Statistics & Research Methods for International Affairs
Professional Competencies
Students choose one of four tracks. Each track is composed of skills-based courses designed to meet the needs of the international workplace. Students select three courses from the list of approved courses for their chosen track. Please note that some of these courses have prerequisites. Sample courses for each track include:
Policy Analysis
- SIS-750: International Policy Analysis
- SIS-750: Political Risk Analysis
- SIS-653: Art and Science of Intelligence Analysis
- SIS-609: Conflict Analysis and Resolution
- PUAD-671: Cost Benefit Analysis
- PUAD-670: Economics for Policy Analysis
- PUAD-684: Organizational Analysis
Methods and Analytics
- SIS-750: Data Analysis
- SIS-750: Strategic Analysis: Game Theory
- SIS-750: Big Data and Text Mining
- SIS-750: Qualitative Methods
- STAT-613: Data Science
- STAT-612: Statistical Programming in R
- ITEC-621: Predictive Analytics
- ECON-623: Applied Econometrics
Leadership and Management
- SIS-611: International Negotiation
- SIS-628: Strategic Communications
- SIS-642: Intercultural Relations
- SIS-750: Program Design, Monitoring, and Evaluation
- SIS-696: Global Social Entrepreneurship
- ITEC-620: Business Insights Through Analytics
- ITEC-660: Business Intelligence
- MGMT-609: Management of Orgs. and Human Capital
- PUAD-633: Budgeting and Financial Management
Economics and Finance
- SIS-616: International Economics
- SIS-620: Environmental Economics
- SIS-731: Economic Development
- SIS-665: International Trade Relations
- SIS-666: International Financial Relations
- ACCT-607: Financial Accounting
- FIN-605: Financial Management
International Affairs Specialization
Students in IAPA take four concentration courses from across the fields of international affairs. This specialization gives students substantive knowledge. Students are encouraged to organize their concentration around a set of policy problems.
Students choose courses in areas such as:
- Foreign Policy
- Security Policy
- International Development
- Peacebuilding
- Economic Relations
- Regional courses
- Human Rights
- Environmental Policy
Capstone Experience
In the Integrated Policy Exercise course, students apply their analytical skills and substantive expertise to real-world policy problems to produce a portfolio of professional-quality deliverables, such as a briefing deck and a policy memo
Application At a Glance
View a detailed admission and degree requirements listing for your degree of interest.
- Entrance Semester
- Fall and Spring
- Application Deadline
- January 15 for the fall semester
- October 1 for the spring semesterÂ
- Additional Requirements
- Undergraduate degree
- Two letters of recommendation
- Resume
- Statement of Purpose
- TOEFL/IELTS score if international applicant
- Application
- Completion of online application