International and Public Affairs (IAPA)

The concentration in International and Public Affairs equips students with the knowledge, experience, and skills necessary to be engaged global citizens.

In International and Public Affairs, faculty and students examine domestic and global challenges from a multidisciplinary perspective and consider approaches to addressing these challenges through economic, political, and social change and through public policy.

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.

Requirements

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.

Annoucements

Driven by a curiosity to push our collective spatial imaginaries, Amienne Spencer-Blume, a 2023 graduate of Watson's International and Public Affairs (IAPA) concentration and current sociology Ph.D. student at Johns Hopkins University, is researching how the configuration of space, at the micro- and macro-scales, impacts social structures and politics.
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Charles Alaimo, a junior concentrating in International and Public Affairs (IAPA), credits Watson's multidisciplinary approach to learning and its extraordinary professors for fully preparing him for a career in emerging technical policy and foreign policy research.
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