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>> Whether they're physics majors or math majors, or they're in studio art or economics
or government, students who are going to have to corporate
in a globally interconnected world should have a good understanding
of what are the forces that shape that world.
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So there are four core courses that form the base of the minor.
[Music] One focuses on human tendency towards violence and conflict
and the political structures that we create to mitigate or prevent that.
That course is called Violence and Security.
>> Look at the headlines, you read about violence, there may be war between South Sudan
and Sudan, an attack against Iran's nuclear facility.
>> I could talk about these things before, but I was more informed and I had the right words,
you know, to really argue about this issue like I was an expert.
>> You want to understand it, yet you don't want to invest in majoring in government.
>> I have students from just about every department
on the campus take Introduction to International Development.
So we talk about what hasn't worked, and we discuss a lot of current approaches,
we've talked about sustainable development, women in development.
>> Currently, I'm using a lot of my background from international development classes
in engineering class where we're working on structural analysis
for the Haiti 300 [Inaudible] house.
>> A third focuses on cultures, places, and identities,
which looks at how your world view is shaped by where you live in the world
and the culture in which you're embedded.
And tries to teach that those perspectives are really transitional.
They change depending on where you're from.
>> Being able to understand a very completely different point of view is extremely important,
if we are thinking of creating citizens of the world.
>> And then the final course takes all three of those first courses, politics, economics,
and culture, and focuses on one thing that's common to everybody, which is health.
And that's Global Health and Society.
>> I was going for my biologies major, I was missing a lot of, you know,
the humanities aspects are so essential for international development,
specifically in the field of public health.
And I found the international studies minor which really seemed the perfect blend
of sciences and humanities, that would aid me in doing my public health work.
>> I learned about things that I wanted to learn about,
but not through the lens of one department.
>> I've gotten all my [Inaudible] requirements done through it.
>> Education is real when you're applying it day-to-day, and I really,
really love that about international studies.
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>> -- sense of how the world functions as a whole,
and what their place in the world might be.
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