The Undergraduate International Studies Program provides a holistic, interdisciplinary, and cross-cultural foundation. International Studies at The Ohio State University offers eleven majors and ten minors. Specializing in contemporary global issues and regional areas, the vision created in 1943 resonates today in an era of globalization.
International Studies is designed to produce informed leaders on world issues; proficiency in a foreign language; and exceptional research, writing, and public speaking skills. The program promotes rigorous academic training, and endows students with the professional skills needed to practice at home or abroad.
International Studies students are widely recognized for academic talent and vigor. As well as embodying excellence, our students earn a broad, forward-thinking education while undertaking a demanding curriculum.
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The African studies specialization introduces students to the cultural, economic, historical and political forces, arising inside and outside the continent, that have combined to determine the past, present and future of Sub-Saharan Africa.
This concentration introduces students to historical, economic, political, geographical, social and cultural explanations of underdevelopment and modernization in Africa, Asia, Eastern Europe, Latin America and the Middle East.
This concentration introduces students to the cultural, economic, historical and political forces, arising inside and outside the region, that have combined to determine the past, present and future of East Asia.
The International Relations & Diplomacy concentration provides students with an introduction to the relations between sovereign states in a continuously evolving international system, centering on the post-World War II period.
This concentration introduces students to the cultural, economic. historical and political forces that have combined to determine the past, present and future of Spanish-and Portuguese-speaking areas of the Caribbean, Central America, and South America.
The Middle East Studies concentration introduces students to the cultural, economic. historical and political forces that have combined to determine its contemporary character, shape U.S. policy towards the region and produce the resurgence of Islam.
The Security & Intelligence concentration focuses on the changing nature of conflict and war both as we enter the 21st century and in the aftermath of the September 11 attack on the World Trade Center.
The Slavic & East European Studies specialization introduces students to the cultural, economic, historical and political forces, arising inside and outside the continent, that have combined to determine the past, present and future of Russia and Eastern Europe.
The West European Studies specialization introduces students to the cultural, economic, historical and political forces, arising inside and outside the region, that have combined to determine the past, present and future of Western Europe.
This specialization provides students with an interdisciplinary introduction to the causes of economic globalization, to the changes that it is bringing to the international environment in which the U.S. conducts its economic and political relations with other nation-states, and to the domestic consequences of these changes.
Created in 1943, The Ohio State University International Studies program is one of the oldest in the country. The program offers an undergraduate liberal arts education that is international and interdisciplinary in focus, promotes a deeper knowledge and understanding of other peoples and cultures, and fosters critical thinking, research, writing, and public speaking skills.
Graduates of the international studies program are widely recognized as having taken a demanding curriculum designed to make them well-informed about world issues, proficient in a foreign language, and possessed of good skills in research, writing and public speaking. Profiting from the wide range of curricular options available to them, students have a range of choices that allow them to prepare for graduate professional school or for careers in a variety of fields, including the private sector, government service and international development agencies.
Shannon Fillingim, international studies, talks about the range of classes available to international studies majors and opportunities at Ohio State.
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