The concentration in International and Public Affairs equips students with the knowledge, experience, and skills necessary to be engaged global citizens.
The concentration in International and Public Affairs equips students with the knowledge, experience, and skills necessary to be engaged global citizens.
We provide our students with knowledge and experiences that help them to critically assess and deeply understand the world we live in. IAPA equips students with the analytical, research, and writing skills that will help them to engage as global citizens after Brown.
The International and Public Affairs concentration comprises 11 courses, including a common core of classes featuring a themed gateway lecture course, junior seminars, senior thesis or capstone seminars, a track foundational course plus five electives, and a qualitative and quantitative methodology course. Students can choose to pursue language instruction as an alternative to one of the two required methodology courses.